Hello to everyone - I'm new to this discussion. I've become so intrigued by this case since listening to the Tom Brown's Body podcast. It's to the point where I went back and literally read all of the threads here, as well as listened to the entirety of the Unfound podcast where PM is interviewed at length.
I have a couple of observations that I don't think I've really seen mentioned before. First off, in "Tom's Loop" (episode 2 of the podcast, at the 15-min mark), Nathan Lewis describes his supposed last encounter with Tom:
NL speaking:
He [Tom] was doing a public speaking event for 4-H and he went in there and was doing a public speaking, uh, deal, in the, in the Rotary Club one day. And he saw me in the Rotary Club and he approaches me and he said, “Man, I’m sorry for – for that night, um.” And he told me he told his mother a lie. He said, “Man, I fibbed to my mother.” Because he, he told his mother that I was rude, I cussed at him, pulled a gun, he said all kind of stuff to his mom, and he said, “Man, I’m sorry for doing all that stuff.” And I said, “Tom, the past’s the past, man, don’t worry about it. Just always tell the truth.” And that’s all I told him. And I didn’t see him – I’ve never dealt with him ever since.
This seems like such an obvious lie. I'm sorry, but I cannot imagine any scenario where a teenager would approach a law enforcement officer at a social gathering and casually and voluntarily offer up an apology like this one, fully admitting that he lied to his mother to the point where she filed a complaint with the officer's boss. I'd bet anything this simply did not happen. Even the most extraordinarily mature kid would want to leave well enough alone rather than risk the wrath of his mom, or worse, potentially get into legal trouble.
Which of course then begs the question WHY. Why did NL feel the need to tell such an obvious lie and claim this was the last time he ever dealt with Tom?
The other thing I haven't seen discussed here was something that came up in the Unfound interview with PM. She mentioned that Tom's father, her ex-husband, was actually somewhat friendly with NL in the context of a fantasy football league in the town where Tom's dad lives and where NL had been a cop.
It's probably nothing, just literally fantasy football. But...in light of Klein's bizarre story about the supposed gambling ring involving high school football...I wonder if there's something else there?
Anyway, I know I'm really late to this discussion, but I needed somewhere to share these observations. Sorry for the length of my first post. Thanks for reading.
