I really want to reply to sumzero's comment on the last thread (I don't know how to carry over from one thread to another) but here it is:
"Racial stereotype? I guess Im not seeing what youre seeing. Also, if she were making up something out of thin air, she wouldnt have to pretend their faces were partially covered. She could say she caught a glimpse of them when they were unaware (or that their faces were not covered at All). In fact, after that much time (if this were a hoax), Id expect her to concoct something with more detail, thinking itd help to convince people. (Liars tend to work extra hard to make their stories believable.) But if her captors took measures to keep her in the dark (literally and figuratively) for three weeks, then wed expect her to have difficulty providing information (apart from whatever impact the traumatic experience caused her).
Last edited by sumzero; 11-24-2017 at 09:28 PM."
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Over the Thanksgiving holiday I watched an hour-long show about Susan Smith, the woman who drove her two children into a river, killing them, and then blamed it on a ficticous black man who carjacked her. This stood out to me right away: LE drew up a composite sketch of the suspect based on Smith's description, but it lacked detail to the point that TV stations took it down after just a few days. It raised concern in the community because people said it could have been ANY black man.
This is a good example of a woman who was guilty of a crime but lied and said she was a victim, and she also didn't offer enough detail in her sketch.