News has just come out that Joran Van der Sloot and the two Kalpoe brothers have been re-arrested.
According to the NBC report, prosecutors plan to submit new evidence to a judge.
I wrote about Joran Van der Sloot back on February 24, 2006. Click on the link below to see what I thought and to see the video I reviewed.
Many you of you have asked me to review the latest interviews given by Drew Peterson in the last few days since his first interview with Matt Lauer last week.
I think most people are clearly seeing the contradiction between what Peterson says (the spoken word) compared to his actions and expressed emotions.
The two don’t match up and are in complete contradiction. You don’t need lie-detector-eyes to see this. Many of you have also pointed out some excellent red flags in odd word choices as well. When people are honest, we just don’t see these oddities and inconsistencies. The red flags are stacking up at an alarming rate. I would be working full-time to keep track of them all.
Read moreFurthermore, Drew’s lack of concern for his wife is show-stopping. In every interview, Stacy is the last thing on his mind — and clearly this is abnormal. At a minimum, I would expect pleas to Stacy to come in anger to save his own butt! But that would only happen if he believed she was truly alive…
Peterson has told us he is afraid of the media and that he wants them off his back less than a week ago, yet ironically he has been happily, jovial, and even flirtatious with the media since — and it appears he is quite open to take on more and more interviews. He has even sat down with People Magazine. Obviously, he is not afraid of distracting from Stacy’s search anymore, either.
We all keep hoping to see a concerned father and husband, but it’s a little too late for that now. Peterson keeps digging himself deeper and deeper with an arrogant, cocky attitude to boot.
I was going through the interviews, deciding which one I would discuss when I found this one (above) from Dan Abrams. I think this is a great interview (way to go Abrams!) because this segment of the show points out the craziness of Peterson’s behavior on the bullseye. Excellent journalism, Mr. Abrams (and Mr. Lauer)!
My 2nd review of Peterson: Peterson’s 1st Interview with Matt Lauer
In this interview , I found it amazing how Peterson turned around a question by one of the reporters. She asked if Peterson had any physical altercations with his wives. Watch Peterson think about it! And then listen to what he has to say. It’s almost unbelievable.
Peterson says, “In a defensive manner, yes.” The reporter say, “What does that mean?” and Peterson say, “I was the victim“. Peterson is having a ball with this. Is he referring to the “steak incident” he told to Matt Lauer? Look at how he laughs. It’s totally bone-chilling. What victim of abuse ever finds it funny?? Peterson doesn’t seem to know what is normal and reasonable anymore — which makes me concerned for his children: very concerned.
The topic with the reporter then switches over to Thanksgiving and Peterson says he is thankful for the fact his kids are “happy and healthy”. This is not even reality-based. I am getting more and more concerned for the well-being of Peterson’s children by the minute.
When the reporter talked about Peterson’s home being searched and searching for Stacy, he says …”they’ve been through my house and its not here”. “Its” being Stacy’s body? This is very chilling and several readers spotted this and already commented about it as does Abram’s panel of experts. If you believed your wife was alive, would never use the word “it” in this manner? Of course not. It speaks volumes.
Peterson says he “always makes light of a bad situation.” My question to him would be how are you making light of Stacy’s disappearance? We all just see you having fun, hamming it up for the camera — which isn’t fun for any of us — or any of the reporters. The only one laughing is you, Mr. Peterson.
Later in the interview when Peterson talks to Hota Kotbe of NBC, he talks about how “we did all these repairs on her” (Stacy). The word “repairs” really disturbs me because he is talking about plastic surgery for Stacy. His choice of words indicates how he felt — that she needed to be “repaired”. Was he giving her everything she ever wanted and pampering her, or was he making her everything he wanted her to be?
And, of course, the use of past tense as discussed by Abrams expert is right on the money. It is absolutely a HUGE RED FLAG…among the pile.
The more Peterson talks, the more red flags that pile up. He is becoming a poster child of what-not-to-do when your wife disappears. May justice prevail. That’s all I can wish for. May the truth become clear and known.
Jane Tanner, one of the Tapas Nine, came forward to talk to BBC about what she saw the night of Madeleine’s disappearance this week. She says, “I believe Madeleine was abducted.” Thanks to one of my readers for the news tip!
You can watch the video of her speaking here.
It’s nice to see one of the Tapas Nine speak out as we’ve only had the McCann’s word up to this point.
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When I watch Drew Peterson talk to Matt Lauer on the Today Show, I get a sense that some people will stop for a second when watching Peterson talk, and wonder for a minute, if maybe, just maybe, Peterson is innocent of the crimes he is suspected to be involved. If they listen to what he says, however, I am confident many people will doubt Peterson’s story.
Peterson’s demeanor during the interviews is strong, smooth, and without so much as a flinch. Peterson comes across as confident yet for those of you who pick up on it, there is an palpable air of arrogance about Peterson that is undeniable.
Why is Peterson so arrogant? For an innocent man, arrogance would be the last emotion he would feel right now.
Read moreIf you are wrongly accused or suspected of murdering one, let alone two people, and you know you didn’t do it, how would you feel?
Then he says that …”if anything happened to her, then it should be found out. “
Is Peterson just saying whatever he thinks people want to hear here? He changes his tune with the wind: “It’s a shame”, “I have no opinion”, “they should find out.”
Is this how you would feel if your ex-wife was being exhumed on the suspicion of murder, if you had nothing to do with it? I can bet my bottom dollar, if you were innocent, you would react with emotions, feelings and opinions. Why isn’t Peterson showing any of these?
Why doesn’t Peterson direct the focus back to finding Stacy?
He also has no emotions again. He only seems to feel the pain of having to deal with his two oldest children. It appears it has been an inconvenience for him to have to get them to school, and so forth, because of the media. That’s his only complaint: certainly strange.
Why doesn’t he feel anger towards Stacy for running away and leaving him in this mess? It’s strangely missing.
ML: They’ve (the police) have decided that you are, in fact, a suspect in this case (4th wife). Why do you think, in your opinion, they’ve changed their characterization of you?
DP: I think they’ve always considered me a suspect.
When Peterson says this, look at the arrogance. He is smirking, and swaggers his head with attitude. It’s mind boggling. Why is he cocky about this? It’s flat out inconsistent.
ML: What do you think she meant by that?
DP: I don’t believe that’s her words. That doesn’t sound like a
thing… she would say.Peterson says that he believes this e-mail was made up.
His enunciation of the words “thing” and “say” stand out to me as unusual. It hints that he is spouting off the top of his head saying whatever comes to mind — not talking about what he believes to be true.
Clearly, there are plenty of people speaking out about Peterson here to support that this was not made up. Lauer then plays a video of Stacy’s sister which clearly supports the fact Stacy was afraid, and to that Peterson has no answers.
It really bothered Peterson because later on in the interview, he talks about how his third wife, Kathy Savio, became emotional after she had children (time marker 8:58). He uses the word “again” which tells me he had issues with women when they were emotional–especially after they had children. It’s like women weren’t allowed to have emotions with Peterson. Or, he really resented hormones. This is telling, and it furthermore shows that he likely had no ability to empathize or sympathize with others–especially those he supposedly loved–when they were going through difficult times.
Yet oddly, he admits that he would get in verbal confrontations with Stacy, that he would get into her face, and that she hated to be cornered. He also later admits that he had a one-up relationship with his third wife, that they each had to prove who was smarter. Did he have the same with Stacy?
DP: She never told me she was seeing another man. The…ah…ah…well, maybe she did. But I believe she is with someone else right now.
ML: Did she or did she not tell you she was seeing someone else, Drew?
DP: It wasn’t put like that. She
found somebody else.Good old argument of semantics: A trait of liars. Need I say more?
DP: I don’t know. I can’t answer that.
Peterson seems to say “I don’t know” a lot. I would expect more of an answer from someone who is wrongly being accused of a crime they know they did not commit.
I would expect anger, pain, frustration and perhaps and answer like “I don’t know why she hasn’t called! She should. There is no reason for her not to. We will leave her alone if she’d just tell us where she is–all of this would go away!!!”
Why aren’t we seeing any of it??
* I can hear the responses now: He is a cop. He is trained to not show emotions. But you must realize that not all of our facial expressions are under conscious control. I should see some leaks of anger, pain, feelings of being violated by Stacy if she ran off, if they truly exist, but I do not see a hint of it. I do see anger at the media, and arrogance towards everyone except the media which tells a very different story than what Peterson wants us to believe.
Peterson is talking out of both sides of his mouth here. You either believe one, or the other. If you truly believe she ran off, you don’t even think about the search, and media because it is absurd–let alone come up with the ridiculous statement that you would detract from the search efforts!
This statement is an absolute contradiction to what an honest person would never ever say, think or even consider.
Also, has any suspect of a crime who has searched for their loved one detracted from the search in any way, ever? If anything, they keep the story in the news which draws attention to it. Peterson’s answer is pure nonsense.
He should show some anger, but he doesn’t at a very key time. If she is messing up his life because she is in hiding with another man, he should be furious! He is not. It speaks volumes to me over, and over again.
ML: Now state officials are saying that it looks like an accident staged to cover a murder. What was your impression at the time when she died. Did you think it looked like an accident?
Notice Peterson doesn’t directly answer the question. Instead, he tells you what he wants you to know. He is controlling the situation not recollecting things like honest people do.
Peterson does say that he couldn’t tell if Savio was dead or alive.
I’d be curious to know what Savio’s time of death was approximated to be. This could be telling.
Was he ultimately the smartest person in their relationship? It obviously was a goal of his. Notice how he smiles when he talks about it?
He has no pain, or emotions when recollecting Savio’s death either. He is absolutely emotionless!
Children raised in abusive homes often end up in abusive relationships.
When Peterson answers this question, he is absolutely bone-chilling. He doesn’t flinch, respond, or act in anyway that tell us he is being deceptive. Does that mean he is being honest? It does not.
People who are psychopathic do not feel guilt or remorse, and hence they do not always leak facial clues. Essentially, what would emotionally arouse you, won’t arouse them. Psychopaths can be the hardest people to read because of this.
In reading people who don’t feel guilt, or remorse, you must focus on inappropriate emotions, if they do display themselves, and inconsistencies in fact, which I believe there are plenty in this case to warrant further investigation.
ML: Do you understand why people see a rather alarming coincidence here?
Listen to Peterson’s answer. He talks about how Stacy always said she wanted a divorce after her sister died based on her menstrual cycle.
Yet shortly after Stacy went missing, Peterson was quoted as saying “I believed our marriage was good, but maybe she didn’t.” (source). This is a clear contradiction.
DP: “It was like every…any other moment when she was unhappy with something, she would want a divorce.”
Is that statement even logical?
DP: Basically, my legal defense.
Shouldn’t he be afraid that Stacy won’t reappear again, and will instead remain in hiding for years like her mother supposedly did???
Here you can see what bothers Peterson the most–the money that will be required to defend himself. He says it may cost a quarter-of-a-million dollars per case. He then asks for legal help. He says to everyone watching, if you want to represent me, call me!
I believe the ONE and ONLY reason Peterson came on TV to do an interview was purely with the hope he will get free legal services. He knows if he gets good legal representation, NO ONE CAN HARM HIM, or take anything away from him. As a police officer, he knows good legal representation means freedom.
If Peterson really believes that Stacy is out there, wouldn’t he be confident someone would spot her, that she would be seen or discovered and that nothing would come of this?
Instead, he worries about his pocketbook.
DP: I don’t know. Maybe…they are even prompted by the media to say this or do that.
This is absolutely nonsense. I can’t believe he was so arrogant to say this. Then he tries to implicate Geraldo Rivera, too.
DP: Based on the media coverage, I am as guilty as they come.
Look at the smirking here. If you are wrongly accused, are you going to get joy out of this? Absolutely not. Another example of inappropriate emotions.DP: I’m doing all that I can…My God. Get the media off my back…
Notice how mad Peterson is. Does he realize what Lauer just said is true–that he shouldn’t be on TV telling his side of the story? Does it piss him off?Why isn’t this anger coming out towards Stacy, if she is the source of his frustration, and he is innocent?
ML: Have you thought about it?
DP: Yes. And it’s… a… frightening thing, but my family is provided for, my kids will be okay, they are with my brother and sister-in-law, and my son, and ah…I can go in peace if that happens.
This stopped me dead in my tracks. If you are innocent, are you going to think that far down the road about the death penalty, and being put to death, if you are innocent?
Hell, no, instead you’d be on a mission to bring that beast of a woman home with your own two bare hands!
ML: And if Stacy is out there as you say, where she wants to be, perhaps with another man, perhaps even watching this interview — what would you stay to Stacy?
DP: Come home.
Tell people where you are (smile) and that’s all I can say.”Notice how he looks into nowhere when he talks to Stacy, and his lips move up, and sideways? Then he breaks out laughing because he truly thinks it is funny to talk to Stacy. His emotions are flat out inappropriate for an honest man.
He should be furious with Stacy for putting him in this situation. Hell, I’d be begging across the airwaves, apologizing–doing everything I could to get my ex to come forward because the truth is all that could save me.
Instead, Peterson laughs because it is weird, and odd for him to talk to someone, I suspect, he knows is not there.
Does Peterson know the truth won’t save him?
You’ve probably heard the story that is breaking out of Italy this week. A British Exchange student, Meredith Kercher, 20, was found murdered in her bedroom, and one of the accused is American-born, University of Washington student, Amanda Knox, also 20. Both girls shared a house with other students while living abroad.
Reports are saying “Extreme Sex Game killed Meredith.”
Steve Huff over at True Crime Weblog details the story here, if you want to get into all the details.
Several papers have printed a statement made by Knox to police, and if this statement is true, I find it quite interesting and telling that perhaps Ms. Knox is not being forthright with us.
Read more Knox says:
“Patrick and Meredith were in Meredith’s room while I stayed in the kitchen. I can’t remember how long they were together in the room, but I can only say that at a certain point I heard Meredith screaming and I was scared so I covered my ears. After that, I don’t remember everything, my head is very confused.” (source)
Furthermore, there is this report:
Ms Knox made her “confession” to police when she was taken in for questioning at dawn yesterday. She had claimed earlier to have left the cottage at 5pm on Thursday and returned only the next morning when Ms Kercher’s body was discovered. She now admits that she was at the house. She said that on the evening of November 1 she had met Mr Lumumba, who owned the Le Chic pub where she sometimes worked, at about 9pm after they had exchanged texts. She told police they had gone to the cottage. “I don’t remember if my friend Meredith was already there or whether she came later. What I can say is that [Meredith and Patrick] went off together.” (source)
It has been pointed out to me that Knox’s statement may have been translated from English to Italian to English again. If this is the case, I withdraw any and all conclusions, as it is ESSENTIAL for me to have Knox’s words VERBATIM to make a determination (see comment section below).
If these are Knox’s words verbatim, the four-sentence statement (above) gives us many red flags that are hard to ignore.
If Knox wasn’t in the room participating in the killing, then her words (if they are indeed hers) certainly hint that she knew what was going on behind those closed doors. It hints she was involved with Patrick and Meredith, yet her story is leaving out any involvement with Meredith.
Each of these four sentences has a red flag in it. That’s a strong indication of deception. I don’t believe Knox is being honest with us –if these do in fact prove to be her words verbatim. That is now the question.
* Modification added 11/10/07 4:14 PM
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