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James Henslee 911 Call with Follow-up by Police

Earlier this week I posted the 911 call from James Henslee reporting his wife missing, and in it, I found some inconsistencies. Eyes for Lies reader, Keith, found another released version of the 911 call, where police call back James to update him that they haven’t located his wife, and to ask him more questions.

When the police ask him if there are any footprints leading away from the house, he says, “Ah…I couldn’t tell of any this morning…cuz ah…like I said I left work a little after 10 when I couldn’t get a hold of her…and I don’t know what to think.”

James’ answer is odd here. He doesn’t directly answer the question or say that he specifically looked. Or tell us that everything was shoveled so there was no way to know… He tells us he couldn’t tell, but doesn’t explain himself.

The detective asks him how long he thinks Amy’s been gone from the house. James says,”Since probably 9:30, I would say.” Had he talked to the neighbor already at this point to know this? How did he arrive at this time? Do we know when the neighbor told him about the information?  I somehow thought it was Tuesday,  but I don’t know for sure.

When the dispatcher asks James if they were having problems, he answers this question differently than all the others. All the other questions when he say “no”, or “nope”, but to this question he says, “No sir” with a different voice inflection. It’s notable.

James says, “Like I said, she locked out our front door because I had both sets of keys..um…its almost like she might have left with somebody and I’m not sure.”

Did he leave her without keys? Why would he have both sets of keys? Why would she lock herself out of her own house?

These are oddities, again, but nothing conclusive, though it is a fact James has been inconsistent with us.

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James Henslee 911 call

Police released James Henslee’s 911 call. In the call, James tells police that he called home on his break and continued calling for 40 minutes before he left to go home to find out if his wife was okay because she didn’t answer.

Read moreI find this tidbit interesting. How many people have called home to a loved one who didn’t answer? Do you often panic and leave work within 40 minutes? Most people will typically wait a couple of hours or call neighbors. I find James time period of concern quite short.

There had to be other days where she was doing something where she couldn’t hear the phone ring and didn’t answer. One plausible scenario is that she went to get the dog off the chain and started talking to a neighbor. That could easily happen, couldn’t it? Why did he rush home this day?

In this interview with WNDU, James says, ““My first initial thought, someone she knows must have stopped by and she must have gone to town or something real quick and she figured she’d be back because she knows I’m home by lunch.”  

He doesn’t think about that until after he comes home? Obviously, from that statement, he believed Amy left the house at times when he was at work, so why the concern so instant on this day?  Why couldn’t he wait until lunch time? 

In the 911 call, I am surprised James doesn’t stress to the dispatcher that Amy has been missing for 6 and a half hours when he calls. This is notable. Most people would say, hey look, I’ve looked everywhere. I’ve called all of her friends, I’ve driven to town. I’ve waited 6 hours! Something is wrong. Instead when the dispatcher says call her friends, the first time he says, “Alright…” The second time he tells dispatchers that Amy doesn’t associate with many people.  There are two oddities here.

First, James doesn’t tell the dispatcher that he drove down to town to look for Amy.  Why?  This is notable. In his WNDU interview, he said, “I took a cruise up town and still nothing and that’s when I came back and she still wasn’t here and I was starting to get a little worried.” 

Second, James says his wife didn’t “associate with many people” to the dispatcher in the 911 call, yet in this interview he told us how outgoing and well liked Amy was.   He said, “Everybody loved me and my wife.”

You can’t have it both ways…

Listen to how James inflects his voice when he says, “I don’t know if she left with somebody….”   I find his inflection odd…It’s a hot spot for me.

When the dispatcher says, “Does she have a cell phone you can try calling her on?” James says “No”.  Why doesn’t he say to the police, and oh yeah, she left her purse?  Did he not know it at this point, or did he discover that right away?  I’d be curious to ask family if they knew at that point because that is critical information for the police. If she doesn’t have her purse, she likely won’t have much money to go or do anything, which if James is worried about her, I think he’d want to share this, if he knew at this point.

Essentially, he should be saying, “Don’t tell me to go look for her — I already did!”  But we don’t hear this from James, ironically.

In this video, James just said something that really flags me.  His wife has been missing for three days. The reporter asks James why he wants to take a polygraph and he says, “To rule me out and to get the person…or to find out whatever happened to the wife and the mother of my kids.”

To get “the person”?  How did he know that a person was involved?  How come that was his first conclusion when he knew she left the house, locked the door and took her coat–which all seems voluntary.

Right now, there are many red flags in James’ behavior that need further investigation in my eyes… He is not being forthright with people, but what he is hiding, it could be a multitude of things.

Amy Henslee Laid to Rest: James Speaks at Her Funeral

I notice a particularly odd behavior of James during the speech he gives at his wife’s funeral yesterday, and I can’t help but wonder, does James have a cold? 

If you watch James speak, he has a rhythmic pattern of saying a sentence and then sniffling — from the first sentence he says to the very last. I’ve never seen this before.

I watched closely to see if he was having trouble reading his eulogy, because of tears, or if he wiped away any tears, but neither happen.  Tears would likely cause the eyes to well up and would make reading a eulogy difficult, but I don’t see James struggling with that.  Also, with tears, you can’t hold sniffles back so precisely as to wait to finish each sentence, can you? They congest you up, cause you to drip and pause at inopportune times. Most people use a kleenex, or sniffle, but the sniffle isn’t so perfectly timed.

Do you think this is odd behavior?

Furthermore, I don’t see any stress in James’ forehead. I don’t see oblique eyebrows either. If anyone sees any close-up photos of James from this service, please let me know. I would like to see if there are truly tears…or if he has a cold…