I am pretty sure she did give the address. But everything else was so... just off. And then her on TV later. I'm pretty sure she does the whole tearless crying thing. [video=youtube;cAFmNapkpfQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAFmNapkpfQ[/video]. That's always a big red flag, especially for a woman raised in U.S. culture. I mean, and not to mention how she blubbers out 'keep your babies close to you' ... while being the woman who basically instantly tossed Burke off to a neighbour.
I'm entirely new to this discussion, but not the case. I've been reading over the JB threads this weekend, and the footage above is what inspires me to finally post. Before I do, I've been around WS for a time now, primarily posting in the Heather Elvis case, and I thought
that was a crazy ride. It in no way compares to the JB case. Secondly, I'm in CO and am familiar with the City of Boulder's failures in investigating this murder. I worked in Boulder for a year, a few years before this happened, and am all too familiar with the local denial of anything less than the picturesque image of the city. And I can't begin to adequately express my disdain for Alex Hunter.
But, while I've followed this case since the day it broke in CO news, I wasn't aware of all the exhaustive details that are compiled on this site, and other sites referenced here. Wow. And wow. It's the case that just gets more complicated the more you read, and you definitely need a program to keep track of the players.
So, to now jump into my point - I recall vividly the moment when PR made her Hollywood-esque appeal to Boulder parents to "keep your babies close", and she declared a killer was on the loose. I don't know why, but it was reminiscent of the Gone With the Wind scene where Tara had been lost to the enemy army and Scarlett was eating raw turnips just to stay alive.
There was always just too much theater with Patsy, and it always seemed to take precedence over contributions to the greater mission of finding answers and obtaining justice for her daughter.
In regard to the 911 call, I hear it as a mother. And there is a decidedly discernible difference between a staged narrative for an audience and official record, and the authentic emotional distress of a mother who's child was not only missing, but supposedly a captive of individuals prepared to kill her for a (measly) $118,000. Of course we can call all of these opinions utterly subjective, anti-Patsy, or whatever. But as a mother, I can tell you that there is absolutely
no freaking way that I would have begun a call for help with an announcement that "We have a kidnapping", especially if I had not lifted one finger to turn my home, yard, garage and basement upside-down looking for signs of my kid - while screaming to my husband to call the police himself while I searched. This searching instinct comes from a primal maternal place where the mission is to locate and protect the offspring from harm. It comes from the same place that has new mothers lifting up blankets of their newborns in the delivery room and commencing a systematic counting of fingers and toes, and inspection of their overall welfare. My maternal instinct to locate and protect, and to personally even rip my kid from the clutches of any intruder would prevail.
I've also had to make numerous 911 calls for my mother, who had several strokes and medical crises that I came upon with no warning. I didn't say, "We have unresponsiveness". Or, "We have a stroke". I opened the exchange with a call for an ambulance and a report of exactly what I was witnessing, and I began answering the rapid fire questions of the dispatcher, because that was the ticket to help I needed.
Yes, we all respond at least somewhat uniquely to crisis, but there's a point at which what you're doing and saying is either consistent with priorities of solving the problem, or, not. In this case, a immediate and ongoing red herring media campaign, and emotionally-packed theater of tears that did absolutely nothing to solve the case, was the R's patterned agenda.
So the 911 call was a waving red flag, and so were the subsequent waterworks when Patsy appealed to the masses to keep all the babies close, lest the phantom abductor and long-winded note writer came to their homes too. Bunk to all of it, and my heart aches for a child who will likely never see a lick of justice. JMO
