A Look Back at 2007

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As we march onward into the new year, I took some time today to reflect on the year that has past. Perhaps you, too, might enjoy looking back at the biggest stories of this past year.

Happy New Year!

Howard K. Stern, Larry Birkhead and Anna Nicole Smith

Mary Winkler

The McCanns, and Madeleine

Bobby Cutts, Jr. and Jessie Davis

Matthew Gretz/Kira Simonian

Senator Larry Craig

Drew Peterson

Amanda Knox

* Each link points to the first post that I wrote. To read all the posts that I wrote on the topic, click on the appropriate labels at the bottom of each post.

Liars Don’t Blink More

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I found a great article from the Times Online titled Liars Don’t Blink: They Keep Still and Concentrate Hard.

From all my watching of people, I couldn’t agree more. Intense stares often clue me in to look closer.

Perceptions

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Here is a great optical illusion for you from the blog Omni Brain.

It’s one of the coolest ones I’ve ever seen!

I’m sure if we got a group of people together, someone would believe we were lying if we told them the image is totally fixed in one place and does not move at all.

The Hardest Christmas Imaginable

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Kate and Gerry McCann released a video plea for the return of Maddie yesterday. Have you seen it?

Read more In the beginning of the video, you may notice Kate and Gerry McCann are taking deep breaths. It shows they are nervous. That is indisputable. But the question is what are they nervous about?

Some might say it is because they are lying. I disagree simply because I don’t see any other indications of deception. Furthermore, I would have expected to see nerves like this in earlier interviews with the McCanns when they were in the media spotlight on a daily basis and when the heat was the hottest–when they were named suspects, but I did not.

This is the most nervous I have seen the McCanns.

I suspect the McCanns are nervous because they are pleading to the person or persons who have been involved in the abduction of Maddie for her safe return.

If you decided to make a video message, and talk to someone who you truly believe might hold they key to your daughter’s safe return, wouldn’t it make you exceptionally nervous as well?

I believe it would. It would make your heart pound because you’d know how serious it is. Say or do the wrong thing, and the implications could be horrible. Yet if you do or say nothing, you may forever regret not speaking out.

Imagine the McCanns nerves when making this video.

Watch how the McCanns look at the camera, and how they show genuine emotions when they plea to the person who may have been involved, or is involved in the disappearance of Madeleine. You can feel they are talking to someone beyond the camera. You can feel they have a vision of someone. It is in sharp contrast to the behavior that Drew Peterson expressed when he talked to Stacy a few weeks back during his interview with Matt Lauer.

May 2008 bring Madeleine home to her parents, safe and sound.

Sam Parker

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Theresa Parker was a responsible person who wouldn’t miss work without calling in, so when she didn’t show up for work on March 25th of this year, and she hadn’t been heard from by family and friends for days after a public call for her, people knew something had happened to her.

Theresa was a Walker County 911 dispatcher, and her husband, Sam, was a police officer for 26 years. The two were in the process of an amicable divorce after 14 years of marriage when Theresa disappeared.

To date, Theresa has not been found, and the police have only named one person of interest: Sam Parker.

Sam Parker talked to reporters two months after Theresa went missing.

Read more When I watch Sam talk, and listen to what he has to say, I do see several oddities, or “hot spots”, if you will, that raise my eyebrows. The biggest one for me is that Sam complains bitterly about how he has been “Ruby Ridged by the FBI”, had to hide in the hospital under an assumed name because people were “ready to lynch” him, and that he has had his “life stripped away” from him, yet when he is asked if he knows what happened to his wife, his answer is surprising.

Reporter: Do you know where your wife is?

Sam Parker: I think I do.

Reporter: Really?

Sam Parker: Yeah

Reporter: Where is she?

Sam Parker: I’m…I ‘m not going to bother her…I mean I’m not…
but I think I know where she is…I mean I really do…I…I

Reporter: Did you harm her?

Sam Parker: No!

Reporter: You did not kill her?

Sam Parker: No…no…no…no…no… she got caught in a
[gesturing with hands] mess…and it imploded…and that’s…

Reporter: You think she is hiding?

Sam Parker: Yeah

Reporter: Do you think she is still alive?

Sam Parker: Yeah… I do…and like I said…I…I…I
think I know where…but…I’ll just let it go at that…
I mean if she’s happy…fine…you know…that’s fine…that’s

Does that make any sense? If you are being wrongly accused of something you didn’t do, and all you had to do was tell where the person went who would vindicate you, you would do it. Why then isn’t Sam ? It defies logic.

Also, who ever says that someone got caught in a mess and “imploded”? Imploded is a word that we use to describe buildings and stars, not people. This word is very odd. The entire sentence is odd, and eye-catching as are Sam’s gestures. What is he gesturing about?

I also find that when Sam talks, he shows classic thinking-on-his-feet speech patterns. Words and thoughts aren’t flowing from his mind and mouth as true feelings and logical thoughts would. Sam continually shows this behavior through much of the interview.

For example, look at how Sam responds to the reporter here (below). This is another red flag.

Reporter: After two months, a lot of people are starting to worry that she may be dead.

Sam Parker: I’m not even going to go there. I’m not even going to …even think that…no…no…no… [Sigh]. Ahh…There are certain things that are put up…that …put her in certain places at certain times…and all this stuff and everything like that…and I’m just not gonna go there…so…Like I said… I…I’m just not…ahh…if she’s somewhere and she wants to be there and she’s happy then fine…you know I don’t care…but I wish, you know, she had taken care of the things that she should have before she left…I mean…

Clearly, Sam is thinking as he is talking. Look closer. Just a minute before Sam said this statement above, he said:

Sam Parker: I’m trying to think that she’s alive…I’m trying to think that she’s someplace that I just want to let it go…

Fox news reported in print: “Sam Parker said he believes his wife fled Georgia after getting caught in an extra marital affair and said he did not harm her. He said he thinks he knows where his estranged wife is and he believes she is still alive.”

If what Fox is reporting is true, and Sam knows where his wife is–that she left on her own accord–then wouldn’t he know she is alive? It makes absolutely no sense that he says, “I’m trying to think she is alive.” This is rubbish. You either believe one thing, or another.

When we know facts, we are consistent, unless of course, we are dishonest. Sam is not being consistent, time and time again.

Also, if Theresa got caught in having an extra marital affair, wouldn’t there be proof of this somewhere to corroborate Sam’s story (i.e. cell phone records, telephone calls, sightings, etc.)? I suspect nothing has turned up to support this, or the police would be all over it. Heck, I would suspect Sam to be all over it as well.

Several times during the interview, the reporter talked to Sam and ask him questions in an attempt to clarify Sam’s thoughts. Sometimes the reporter would do it when Sam was in mid-sentence. In the process, I think the reporter actually helped Sam because by doing so, he’d gave Sam answers that weren’t coming to him naturally.

Here is one example below.

Reporter: You think she left to hurt you?

Sam Parker: No…I don’t think that at all…I mean its…ahh…

Reporter: I’m not trying to corner you…I’m just trying to
understand. I guess.

Sam Parker: I know…I mean…no…I don’t

Reporter: Stuff just got to her?

Sam Parker: Yeah. [Thinking…] Yeah!

Notice how Sam is stuck, and doesn’t know what to say. Then when the reporter says, “Stuff just got to her?”, Sam casually says yes. Then he thinks about it a minute, and say yes with inflection. Sam didn’t have an answer, but the reporter supplied him one. Sam seemed to like that.

You typically don’t see this behavior when people are honest. It wasn’t like Sam was word searching.

Poor Sam, he is just being victimized…

Sam Parker: They absolutely take away all of your income and everything that you’ve got…you know…I’ve got 11 credit cards that’s gone, I’ve got Movie Gallery…you know Sam’s Wholesale card they’ve got, my truck title they’ve got and you know I can’t do anything, I can’t move off this house, unless it’s just…you know to where I go. And the FBI is going like, “No you can go wherever you want to.” How?

…yet in the strangest of ironies, he says he holds the key to his freedom yet he won’t share it.

Do you believe him?

Latest Interview

Sam Parker recently spoke to a talk show host in Gerogia on December 10th. While I haven’t reviewed this interview, I did see this statement made by Sam, and I think it was interesting:

Sam Parker: I want to compliment the FBI, the GBI and the Walker County sheriff’s department for doing more than what I expected them to do to look into the disappearance of Theresa.

Is this what you say to a police department that supposedly “Ruby Ridged” you, and didn’t believe you when you told them the truth?

I don’t believe so. Sam is too inconsistent for me to trust what he is saying at this point. I think Sam knows more than he is telling us.

FindTheresaParker.com

Many thanks to Lori of TransEdit Services for the donation of her time to transcribe Sam Parker’s interview at MyFoxAtlanta.com.