Two New Witnesses in Holloway Case
/in CNN/by Eyes for LiesCNN is reporting that two new witnesses have come forward in the Natalee Holloway case. It’s quite interesting because one of the witnesses says he saw Joran van der Sloot and his father Paulus van der Sloot near a pond at 4:00 a.m. on the night Natalee disappeared.
When I dissected Joran’s confession earlier this year, I had a strong suspicion that Joran’s “secret friend” could in fact be his dad. Read here.
A second witness, a former girlfriend of Joran van der Sloot, also told police he made suspicious-sounding comments while they were on the beach. The witness, publicly known only as Celes, told police van der Sloot said: “Who knows? You may now be on the beach with someone who is able to get rid of a corpse.”
New Witness in Amanda Knox-Kercher Case
/in murder/by Eyes for LiesSky News is reporting that a new witness has come forward saying that he saw Knox on the morning after the murder of Meredith Kercher, which if his statement can be verified, would be damning for Amanda Knox.
He says he say her at 7:45 a.m. at the store in the cleaning supply section, which if I understand it right, Amanda has never admitted to. That morning, the morning Kercher’s body was discovered, Knox said she was with her Italian boyfriend at his house before going home to a troubled scene.
This will be interesting to watch materialize. I’m just curious why it took this man an entire year to come forward.
Lie to Me
/in human lie detector, Lie to Me, TV show, video/by Eyes for LiesHave you heard about the new show coming out on Fox on January 21, 2009? It’s called Lie to Me. It’s based on the life’s work of Dr. Paul Ekman.
Dr. Paul Ekman, and his colleague Dr. Maureen O’Sullivan discovered truth wizards (I’m one of them). The show is going to be about people who have my ability!
Perhaps I will relate most to Ria Torres played by Monica Raymund (see below for her character description) since we are both “naturals”. Once the show airs, I will be sure to let you know if I do!
The average person tells three lies in ten minutes of conversation.
DR. CAL LIGHTMAN (Tim Roth, “The Incredible Hulk,” “Reservoir Dogs”) can detect the truth by analyzing a person’s face, body, voice and speech. When someone shrugs one shoulder, rotates their hand or raises their lower lip, Lightman knows they’re lying. By analyzing facial expressions, he can read feelings – from hidden resentment to sexual attraction to jealousy. But as Lightman well knows, his scientific ability is both a blessing and a curse in his personal life, where family and friends deceive each other as readily as criminals and strangers do. Lightman is the world’s leading deception expert, a scientist who studies facial expressions and involuntary body language to discover not only if you are lying but why.
Lightman heads a team of experts at The Lightman Group who assist federal law enforcement, government agencies and local police with their most difficult cases. DR. GILLIAN FOSTER (Kelli Williams, “The Practice”) is a gifted psychologist and Lightman’s professional partner who brings balance to the partnership by looking at the bigger picture while Lightman focuses on the details. He needs her guidance and insight into human behavior, whether he knows it or not. ELI LOKER (Brendan Hines, TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES) is Lightman’s lead researcher, who is so uncomfortable with the human tendency to lie that he’s decided to practice what he calls “radical honesty.” He says everything on his mind at all times and often pays the price. RIA TORRES (Monica Raymund, “Law and Order: SVU”) is the newest member of the agency, and one of the few “naturals” in the field of deception detection. She has a raw, untrained ability to read people that makes her a force to be reckoned with.
The shows senior creator says:
“I’ve spent close to a year with Paul now,” Baum says of Ekman, who will serve as a consultant on the drama. “The amazing thing about Paul’s work, it focuses on four areas, which you’ll learn about in the show, which is the study of the human face, the body, the voice and speech. And just focusing on the face for a moment, the remarkable thing about this work is that we all show emotion the same way. There are seven basic emotions of anger, fear, surprise, disgust, contempt, we show them all identically, whether you’re a suburban housewife in the OC or you’re a Saudi sheik in Saudi Arabia. So it’s a universal phenomenon, the science, and that’s why I feel it can really reach a broad audience.”
Don’t forget to set your DVR: Wednesday, January 21 9/8c.
48 Hours: Truth On Trial
/in murder/by Eyes for LiesThis weekend 48 Hours updated us on the story of Karen Tipton (Truth on Trial). A young pretty wife of a doctor was found murdered in her home back in 1999. There has always been controversy in this case: Did Daniel Wade Moore kill Karen, or was it someone else?
In April of 2009, Daniel Wade Moore will face his third trial as the accused killer of Karen Tipton.
I originally wrote about this case in November of 2005 before Daniel Wade Moore second trial when 48 Hours first interviewed Tipton. You can read my opinion here. At that time I wrote Tipton gave me the chills. Public opinion was a toss up. People’s views were clearly split.
This time around, however, I think the the average person is seeing Tipton for who he is. His cocky grins and arrogant smiles are hard to palate. They can’t be dismissed. He almost reminds you of Drew Peterson, doesn’t he?
Read moreTipton also doesn’t seem to be feeling normal emotions, or emotions consistent with what he is telling us. He doesn’t show any indication that he is sad or upset about what happened to his wife nor does he show any anger that the truth is not prevailing, if in fact what he wants us to believe, is true.
Instead Tipton comes across as controlling yet he smiles at very odd times. He gives us this overwhelming feeling he is on a mission to make sure Moore is guilty–no matter what. He is cold, callous and uncaring, and I think everyone is picking up on this.
For me, when I sat down to watch Tipton, I noticed a very peculiar behavior that I have seen deceptive people exhibit before, and Tipton does it at the most interesting times.
What does he do?
He makes affirmative statements yet says them like a question. In essence and to be more precise, his voice inflection and pitch goes up at the end of the statement instead of down. It’s very notable and I think supportive that Dr. Tipton is not being honest with us. That along with his emotions–cockiness, arrogance and flat-odd delightful smirks–give me great pause.
Here are some things Tipton said and what I thought:
- “He’s (DWM) a liar. He lies all the time.”
When Dr. Tipton says this, he smiles. If your wife was killed and people were starting to believe a murderer, would you ever feel like smiling?
- “He’s the guiltiest man in America. You can’t get any guiltier than that.”
When he says this, listen to how Dr. Tipton’s voice pitch/inflection goes up. Yet when Dr. Tipton is in the kitchen with his girls, and he says “How’s the meatballs going?”, he strangely talks with normal voice inflection. Hmmm….
- Erin Moriarty asks Tipton, “What drew you to her?” Tipton says “She was so pretty.” Notice the pitch and inflection of his voice when he says the word “pretty”?
- Yet when Dr. Tipton talks of Karen pregnant with her daughter in the photo he is holding and how his daughter is hugging her– amazingly his voice pitch and inflection are normal.
Tipton: This (photo of a pregnant Karen) brings back bad memories. It was in front of the fireplace that she was attacked.
I suspect this is fact, and amazingly his pitch supports this.
- “I saw immediately (voice pitch goes up) that the alarm panel which is to the right upon walking in the door (voice pitches up again)—that it had been removed from the wall. A few steps further and I see that its actually laying on the counter in the kitchen.
- “…and I walked up the stairs and I was the most surprised person on the face of the earth (voice pitches up again) to get to the top and find a dead body there that looked somewhat like Karen (voice pitches up again).
Here I also can’t help but notice the lack of emotions, and how he refers to Karen as a “dead body”.
- “The worst day of my life was about a week after the murders, and that’s when Catherine, then three years old, asked me when mommy was coming back from heaven. The was the worst single moment that I could ever imagine.”
What would be the worst day of your life? The day you find your wife’s mutilated body, or the day you had to tell your children? Normal people who feel normal emotions wouldn’t even have to second guess this one. The second worst day would be the day they had to tell their daughter what happened. The worst day would be the day they found their wife dead. There is no doubt about it, unless, of course, you hated your wife. Clearly, Tipton has difficulty feeling normal emotions for his wife.
- Erin Moriarty: How do you think it happened?
Tipton: He came and knocked on the door (voice pitches up), and said hello (smirking)…I work for the alarm company (voice pitches up). He had been there just a few months before.
Tipton: He lied his way in the house (high pitched again).
Notice each sentence ends in a high pitch/inflection.
- “The first injury was being cut or stabbed on the back left aspect (smirk) of the neck (odd high pitch here but no where else in this sentence), her shirt was forced off of her, and then she was forced upstairs with a blood trail going on the whole way. I think it is very likely that after that prolonged period of sexual and physical torture that she managed to actually escape from that and got to the top of the stairs before she was finally killed. There. Somewhere in the range of 28 stab wounds, that and probably the last thing to be cut was her throat.”
Isn’t that interesting? He seems to be restating factual evidence here.
- “Daniel Wade Moore (DWM) confessed to involved. DWM is a 100% profile match for somebody that would do a crime just like this. That’s what crackheads do (inflection goes up here).
Notice he is smirking again? It flat out eerie. Why on earth does he feel like smiling??
- Regarding the DNA hair found at the Tipton house:
“It rules out 99.8 percent of the population leaving 2/10ths of 1%, and he’s in that 2/10th.”As Tipton says this he is grinning. What is there to grin about?
- Erin Moriarty talks about how Tipton’s friend Mike Ezell wrote Karen an e-mail about swapping wives, and Tipton responded “I was offended not only by Mike but by Karen as well.”
Notice the eerie smile? Do his emotions fit with what he wants us to believe?
- “Am I capable of killing somebody? (wink) Yup. Am I capable of killing a loved one? (high pitch again) No. Am I capable of torturing my wife to death? That’s crazy.
It’s just flat out creepy. He feels like winking??
- “I think that he (DWM) needs to be dead. I’m not allowed to kill him. The second best thing is for the state to kill him.”
I think this says a lot by itself.
- “They’re (his daughters) are afraid he’ll come back for them. Why not? Everybody should be afraid.”
When Tipton says this, he grins the most haunting grin. Do you feel how bone-chilling it is? Sadly he is instilling fear and hate in his children instead of providing them with a nurturing environment which is not surprising. It fits the scenario here of someone who could do the unthinkable.
- “I know the truth about me and Karen (odd voice pitch again) and I don’t need a bunch of rumors, and silliness to..ah…ah.. to change (smile) that. Ah, I know the real stuff.”
