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He’s not smart enough to be nuts. I don’t think he has four consecutive brain cells operating in his head at any one moment in time. Makes sense, being a tenured authority figure. Only the stupidest ones ever seem to achieve any career advancement. Not only is he grotesquely stupid, but in all his years of police work he hasn’t even learned how to tell a convincing lie. Shouldn’t the fact that he can’t even utilize a career that depends on knowing when someone is lying to tell a better lie of his own be some kind of indicator that he’s dumber than dishwater? Not only is he beginning to turn the whole ordeal into a source of entertainment for himself, but he refers to his wife in the past tense (and as Ferret said, as an “it”), he hasn’t expressed any desire about wanting her to come home, and frequently turns the focus of the investigation away from where she is and why, and more toward how the coverage is affecting him. Everybody who knows him has testified that he’s about as far from normal as Pluto is from the sun, and several have spoken about the threats he has issued in the past. As I said before, he got away with it on Wife 3, and being a psychopath, that’s enough to form the basis of a pattern of behavior to follow, so he did it again with Wife 4 figuring, naturally, that he’d get away with it once again.
A woman doesn’t leave her kids behind to disappear with another man never to be heard from again. Even if she had, she’d have contacted a family member, a friend, a police department, or a stranger on the street by now. She’d have used a credit card or a cell phone if she had one. She’d have been sighted by someone. When was the last time any of these cases ever ended with the missing woman suddenly turning up and saying “Here I am!” to everyone who was looking for her behind the wrong tree?
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It’s fine to point fingers and take wild guesses based on what little the news feeds you, but at this point there is simply no proof. Do I THINK he did it? Probably, I mean, he’s the most likely candidate, he fits the profile, he was closest to her, had troubles with her before, etc.etc. The facts are that we don’t know the facts. It’s not illegal to be stupid, it’s not illegal to be a bastard, it’s not illegal to not be ‘normal’ whatever THAT means, it’s not illegal to bumble your way through a TV interview or call your wife an “it”.
You have hours and hours to analyze what amounted to just minutes of coversation in a setting foreign to at least one of the people speaking.
Analysis of anything he says must consider the fact he was in a setting that can unnerve even the best liars.
Moreover, you can assume you’d know what a “woman” does, I’m sure all the people in the audience, and especially John Mason thought ‘a woman’ just doesn’t desert her husband at the altar.
Not apples to apples, but rather an example of uncharacteristic human behavior.
