Originally Posted by Sandstorm View Post
He was definitely shocked to hear that a BODY had been found.
All that McD replied was "body?"
and then, "I think I need to sit down."
My thoughts are:
If he were innocent wouldn't he have asked questions based along this line:
Where did they find a body?
Who found it?
Are they sure it is Lauren?
What happened to her?
Are they sure she is dead?
Who could have done this?
Do they know who killed her?
Those are the thoughts that come to my mind if I were told that my neighbor's body was found in the parking lot.
In the video McD makes no inquiry.
Maybe he did off camera and it was not recorded. (??)
I think he was in complete shock at the repercussions of the body being found.
Now, everything had changed.
Another thing that catches my attention is when the reporter asks
"Did she have any enemies, do you know of anyone who would want to hurt her?"
McD avoids that question and redirects the conversation: "We don't know where she is..." then he proceeds to comment with reference to her running and that maybe someone snatched her.
Another point from the video:
In part 1 and part 2 of the video McD explicitly states that
"No one has seen her since Saturday".
This interview was 5 days later. He was studying for the bar. How did he know that NO ONE had seen Lauren since Saturday?
He also makes a comment about her car that is odd to me:
When asked by the reporter Michelle Quesada if that was Lauren's car. He states that "No that car was Detective Patterson's... Lauren's car had been there for days."
Why would he think that her car had been there for days? How would he know that she had not driven her car when he was not aware?
***************************These are very tell tale signs for me.
What do you think about these points?
Your ideas are appreciated.
Backwoods, you just qualified for the JURY!
I appreciate your thoughts, but as Bessie said previously, we will have to agree to disagree.
(respectfully snipped for focus, and emphasis above mine)
I guess I would be pretty fair jury material at this point! ... except, of course, that I do not support capital punishment and so would be unlikely to make it to the box in a Georgia murder trial, and also that I have been pretty well enmeshed in media reports, forum discussions, rampant rumor and other influences that I am not sure I could truthfully say I could totally sort out in my mind
In a way, I think this forum makes an interesting place to study possible jury behavior, for sure. To a point, we could be seen as a mock jury. Sometimes I just get the uncomfortable feeling that some of us are in a real big hurry to make it home in time for supper, or to milk the cow, or not miss the big golf game!
I can't see it as a bad thing to have that "toggle switch" in my mind at this point, when so much of the important evidence is yet to be available. Like others, I think we may get at least a better inkling of the evidence very soon in the days ahead.
I posted the other day to tell another poster that I would "stand with" her when she said something to the effect that she was not yet totally convinced of SM's guilt but would stand red-faced and ashamed before everyone who is if further evidence proves he is indeed the perp. What I really should have posted was that I do not see any reason for her, or me, to anticipate needing to stand ashamed for not having "reached a verdict"
at this point, whatever the outcome eventually.
I said to someone the other day that it is not a particularly comfortable position, being "on the fence", at this point. Nor do I feel it should be, for me or especially for a real-life juror. Right now it is emotionally draining to me, actually. If anyone is interested, I'm having a "he probably did it" day today; I still do go back and forth at this point, with, as I said, the most telling evidence yet to be available. I have about three really strong reasons when I am "leaning" toward SM as being the perp. All of them depend somewhat on that as-yet-not-known evidence, but I'll reveal one of them: the
(apparent) timing of the placement of the torso in the trash bin.
I do know that I couldn't be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt on the evidence available
to me now --realizing that some of you may know things I do not -- and certainly not on the SM interview video alone.
He seems like he might have some type of social disorder and possibly emotional immaturity (Asperger's?) and maybe he was upset that Lauren was moving, or this was his last chance to "be with" her. Uhhggg, who knows; or maybe, he did nothing at all but try to search! He seems so mild mannered it's hard to envision him cutting a body up. Ok, I've talked myself back to where I started. :fence: