Finally watched all the polygraph videos. That agent was awesome! She had his number and knew just how to act casual and not very official. Unbelievable that she told him it would be so foolish and stupid to take the test if he was lying about his involvement, and he still took it anyway. But I bet that had him so freaked out. She acted (purposely) like someone at the doctor's office who's just helping you with intake forms and getting information before you see the actual doctor. Not the bada$$ who was strategically calculating how she was going to gain his trust, get his guard down, trip him up, and nail him.
- I also liked her subtle ways at flattering him. "Oh a super healthy and fit guy like you will be able to sit through this with NO problem!" And when she was talking about the motion pad component of the polygraph equipment she's all, (paraphrased), "Well you lift weights, you work your core, you know any movement will come from there." Oh she was good! And the idiot was no doubt preening again.
- One thing that caught attention - he kept using the exact same words, phrases, and talking points from the porch news interviews. "This is like earth shattering." "It was a ghost town last night." "I miss saying eat your dinner or you won't get your snack." "They were just like vanished." "I wouldn't need to turn their rain maker on because they weren't there." It was just the exact same robotic phrases. He literally said nothing new.
- It seemed clear that his only initial "plan" to explain away their disappearance was going to be to act like they left. I don't think he had ever thought past that in his head. It was just going to be that she went to a mysterious friend's house. Only when he realized that he had FBI there, and dogs, and drones, and all these people freaking out that SW was missing, did he start realizing that wasn't going to work and would have to start rambling about maybe someone "has them" and they weren't "safe." But the mass response to them missing totally freaked him out because he had not planned for that or how he could make it sound like a possibility. (Thank you NUA.) He has NOT planned to be on his front porch with a speech worked out, begging for a perpetrator to let them go.
- The night out at the Rockies game. What a total idiot. No words. I mean did he seriously make up an entire fake work raffle? And then names the coworkers. And this was regarding what he did the weekend before his family goes missing. Like that information wasn't going to be immediately verified. Unbelievable.
- I found it really interesting to actually hear him talk about SW's Thrive job. It at least sounded like he viewed it as a valid job with considerable income and he didn't have a problem with it. He let her post on FB for him and contact his friends too. I can see being annoyed if someone is pitching this stuff for a few extra hundred dollars, but 65-70K range is bringing in a real income where one might view it in a different light. And he seemed to genuinely endorse the product. Nothing raised a flag that her thrive involvement was causing issues. It was helping to pay bills.
The polygraph videos just felt SO bizarre to listen to. He sounded more or less genuine when talking about different aspects of his life. I got the sense he genuinely liked his job, boss, coworkers. He liked his fitness and health and gadgets and cars and Sportscenter. It even sounded like he appreciated SW's organization. It was pretty obvious when he transitioned from talking about those things to the things we know are lies. Don't need a polygraph test to sense that shift.
It's so weird. In the context of knowing his pregnant wife and young daughters are missing, his demeanor and lack of being worried, upset, distressed were glaring. Even just seeing the look on NUA's face in the body cam videos versus CW. But if you didn't know any of what was going on, he just seems like a low key, pleasant, amicable guy. Simple. Likes sports. Non-threatening. Someone wrote in a post a while back that he was acting like a mildly concerned distant neighbor, not the husband and father of a missing family.
That's what I felt like watching some of the videos. And that if he was just a neighbor who had wandered over to ask what was going on, express surprise, mansplain things (I heart you for that comment) like security systems and camera angles with the other neighbors, you would just think oh yeah, Chris. He seems like a good dude. But then you realize that you are listening to someone who in reality annihilated his entire family and was able to call a realtor, join a fantasy football league, joke around with coworkers, and take pictures of flowers from the gravesite to woo his girlfriend. That's not "scared" behavior. That's missing a conscience. So hard to wrap my head around it.
