Okay, first thing that strikes me is that this is a statement from Ronald to the press, yet he has not come out with a prepared statement. He instead waits for questions to be asked OF him, and he answers. All the answers he gives are pat statements, ones that cannot really discern much of anything. For instance, "Is there anything you want the public to do, what can they do to help?" ..... his response is "Find my daughter." Curt and to the point.
But as for his eyes, it's rather difficult to tell because he's situated in a way that forces him to squint into the sun. That makes it very difficult to discern eye-lie cues. What I do notice is that he drops his head a lot, taking time "for himself" (meaning he removes his eye contact from the reporters to isolate himself from them).
When he is asked about LE's report of leads, he does shift (no, I'm not saying he has shifty eyes) his glance down, then to the right, avoiding contact, as though pondering what leads could they be looking at, and it's almost like he's wondering what could there possibly be that could lead them to Haleigh. This is not weighted in terms of whether he's checked off mentally everything to make sure he covered his butt. It's just an observation as a response to that line of questions from reporters. He's thinking about something. I'm making the assumption it's about what leads there could be. (I then offer my opinion that he's making sure he's covered his butt, but hey. I don't really know.)
When he is asked if he believes Misty is telling the truth, he repeats the question as his response. "Yeah, I believe she's telling the truth." all the while licking his lips and putting his eyes down. I don't believe him. He'll look at the person asking the question, but he doesn't look at them when he responds.
Then he's asked about the fight with Misty which puts him on the defensive, and at this point, I believe the interviewing is lost. He's asked about a fight with Joe and he just shuts it down. "People don't know what they talking about." He starts making a lot of eye contact at this point but I don't know that it's about the "truth"..... I think it's about standing in front of a bear and showing the bear you're tougher by staring it down, even if you're peeing yourself.
He's asked about family visiting. We now know that his grandmother, his aunt, several of Misty's family, were all there by 8 p.m. We've heard that his mother was the one who the children were left with, who then called Misty to come babysit (still rumor/truth mixing on that last one. Will we ever know? Probably not.) But anyway, Ron's eyes start evading again, and his tone is still very defensive. He defers to the detectives who he knows aren't going to answer questions like that. But he's also biting the inside of his mouth toward the end of this exchange. He shakes his head, he purses his lips, he squints his eyes (now more in disgust than because of the sunlight).
He keeps insisting he's not going to answer questions, they need to ask detectives. By midway through this, I'm wondering why the hell he bothered to come out without a prepared statement. Then I realize, it's because he wants to shut people up. He's not there to give any real statement, he's MAKING a statement with his behavior.
(P.S., I really wish Teresa would have not been interrupting his responses. Yeesh)
7 minutes in, and he finally makes his statement, (which, of course, teresa one-ups him on). YEESH again.
Jamie Watts talks for a couple minutes, and it causes Ron to step back a bit so he has room. He dances from foot to foot, looking up under his hat from time to time, measuring the reporters. I don't know if it's to see if they're honing in on him or not. Occasionally I see his mouth tense. I do know that at one point he crosses his arms (in the middle of JW talking about the teeshirts, so that he in fact hides from view Haleigh's face. It's unconscious, I don't think he's doing it deliberately, but wow. What a message.
When asked about Jr (sweet little boy.) he responds rather kindly at first to the question, then shuts it down saying focus on Haleigh. But his eyes are closed, then open again. Then he's asked about a message for whoever has Haleigh and we get the odd property comment.
Because of the sun squinting going on, it's once again difficult to see whether he has "lying eyes" but I'll refer once again to my flippant remark above and say I was too busy watching his lips lie to tell whether his eyes are.
Now I'm gonna watch it again for Teresa's......brb again