No he wasn’t on camera for 3 seconds, he was on camera for almost 3 MINUTES. That’s how long it took for him to grab a child and kidnap him. He then comes back later and doesn’t stay there for 3 seconds either, he doesn’t stay for long but it’s not “3 seconds”.
He’s on camera kidnapping a child, that’s a fact, period. He’s charged with it, that’s a fact, period. I seriously can’t understand why some people seem to be defending DB while he is literally on camera kidnapping a child. Make it make sense.
If you were to tell me “oh, but we don’t know if it was DB who murdered him”. Okay, sure, I can agree with that. We don’t have proof he did, but wouldn’t it make sense if he did kill Cash? But that’s not my point here. My point is: it IS him on camera, it IS him kidnapping Cash, there’s no going around it.
I'm with you. Although I understand why a seemingly statistically significant, or at least vocal, population of our forums wants to imagine a string-puller behind the scenes of DB.
First, none of this makes sense. None of us civilized folk can discern a viable motive from this crime. Even if he's a neighborhood menace, even if he's on video removing the kid from the toddler bed, a violent murder doesn't make sense.
Second, none of us have any reason to believe he has committed a violent murder before, so why now? And why this child? And why did he seem to hesitate and not end up taking the second twin.
Third, he didn't SEEM in the first video like someone who was about to commit a violent murder. And he didn't SEEM in the second video like someone who had just committed a violent murder. The facts we currently know of, as they've been presented, don't make sense to us.
Fourth, MS seems to have been less than candid. To us, from our third-hand vantage point, who get what trickles out through the media and police reports, we're getting bits and pieces of info that from an investigative standpoint, we feel we should have had on day 0. And from our experience here, when a person involved in an incident is less than candid, well, we start to wonder if we have a full clear picture of that person's involvement. Of course, we won't know until we know, but at this point, I'm of the tentative opinion that MS is the type to take in strays, both grown and adult, possibly against her own better judgement, and this time it bit her, and she maybe regrets some of her choices and knows there were bad decisions made.
Bottom line, I feel that people wanting a string-puller to exist just aren't used to getting such a hard look at someone who's not firing on all cylinders, and are trying to make sense of it in the sense of traditional crime. When serious mental health issues exist, it's hard to work within the traditional models, because none of us will ever be inside DB's head.
I feel he's responsible. I also feel he's been spiraling for a while and should have been looked at more closely before it got this far. I am very curious about the "girlfriend" he was looking for in the prior incident, whether that was completely in his mind, a real person or some distortion in between. I'm also curious about how much enabling was done by MS, not so much to assign blame as to just understand the bigger picture. She seems ill-equipped to deal with someone with his problems. I find it difficult to believe that NOBODY knew how far he had strayed down the rabbit hole of mental illness, especially since he had had at least some treatment.
With the mental health system in the US, a lot of times it TAKES an event like this for real action to be taken. It's sad, but true. Frequently long before an event like this happens, those around the subject are walking on eggshells knowing something's going to blow, completely unable to do anything about it until the violent episode happens, just praying it's not against them or their loved ones.
