I was watching the brother’s eyes during the interview and he’s not an easy read. Looking down can often mean deception, but he looks down even when he says things that I know are true. Eye language doesn’t always work, and in his case I don’t think it does. Other cases are so much more obvious that someone is lying or feeling uncomfortable, or just plain looks guilty. Teri Horman in the Kyron Horman case, for example. When I watched that first interview she didn’t even speak and I knew she had something to do with it.
I watched it and felt him to be generally truthful and forthcoming. He isn't a type of person I'm familiar nor would his brother be with things he talks of like phlanthropy, bitcoin, kidnappings, etc. lol. And of course it sits in my mind that the cops have looked at him and from the START I found him imo to be out there too much, it was always him, and he always knew everything about his brother, etc.. And some of it was contradictory, he'd say he was well able to pay child suppport and they'd agreed on things and that he was rich, etc. but in the next breath or the next time he'd claim not to of course know about his finances.
Anyhow, I didn't find much in the interview to wonder about NOW and maybe he was just zealous for his brother back when BUT I did notice what you did and I found him a bit evasive and seem to pause with a question or two but I think it may have been just due to what shouldn't be said due to the investigation. One of those times was when asked about his relationship with the fiance... His, not his brother's. He also mentioned John told him he could trust her and he told her she could trust him.... That's back to this stuff of why was he talking of such things, like something was going on in his life and he did and had these talks with the brother and so that brings me back again to the brother who he also allegedly just by word put in charge of his affairs if anything happened to him....
I don't know. Wacky as you say.
Even though he said his brother told him he could trust her, i didn't have the feeling he did or that he necessarily is fond of her or maybe he still just doesn't know here well... Is there suspicion there...? I don't know. Seemed a bit evasive.
He seemed almost more familiar with or comfortable talking of the mother of child #8, or alleged child, than the fiance. Yet that's the one who has to or is trying to get a DNA test. I took that to mean currently didn't you? Why would you need that if he is dead? That brings the thought are any or all of his children his heirs...? If there was a huge chunk of money to be had, that would be a motive. At first I thought if not married, no gain from his death but I guess that would depend on any will (or lack of one) and any life ins. beneficiary (if any).
Don't get me wrong, I don't lean that way BUT I don't lean any real way. I did have focus on the brother for the most part to tell ya the truth and I haven't let that go but he seemed pretty forthright in that interview BUT he also has been looked at and his home searched, they had to have cause. AND we should mention for those that did not watch he failed a polygraph or was told he did. He then went on to say he believes they are just tools didn't he and that they just do and say that, aren't reliable, etc...
So there is still reason to have the brother on the radar....
He TALKS as if he thought the world of him and they were as close as can be..
I'd like to see the Behavior Panel do him but doubt they are even aware of the case or they likely would...
There are other things I wonder. Call it fair or unfair but I have the sense was not a faithful type. There have been hints imo of that even with the hospital and so on. I'd like to know where he met the mothers of child number 8 and 9, when, how long together, etc. Was number 8 a fling while with 9? Things like that. Is there religion here? Have we ever heard that? I can't recall. It isn't always the case of course, anyone can have a lot of children but you see it more with some religions and he had what, seven with his wife of years?
We certainly have seen cases where religion or the twisting of it can be involved.
If there is one thing that is alien to me and is not of my world or those around me at any time in my life it is philanthropy. Before anyone tells me what it means, I KNOW what it means. But he regular calls his brother a philanthropist. In fact constantly almost. I watched a case once with youths that were trying to be philanthropists and deep or at least a couple in the murder case were... None of them were doing anything in life but sitting at coffee shops and such trying to be one. I'm certainly not saying this is the same at all, this guy was a hard worker, but I am saying I don't think most normal folk use that word or refer to the people around them as one constantly. And that doing so is alien to me. Makes me wonder if it is some emphasized thing in their family, beliefs, etc.
Okay, I've wandered on long enough.
And it remains a STRANGE case.
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