Well yea, I agree we shouldn’t fire up the barbecue just yet; if these reports ARE corroborated, however, this guy is going to start having real problems.
Yeah, because, as we all know, having a missing, pregnant wife and being crowned the favorite for “Foul Play Fiend” by numerous people (including some in the media) aren’t real problems.
To each their own, I suppose.
Chandra Levy…
Anyway when I first heard this story what popped into my head was that instead of stealing a baby from a hospital someone, desperate for a baby, kidnapped a woman about to give birth. Then once she delivered they killed her and kept the kid.
Tell me, are the police asking people to report anyone who suddenly got a baby in early Jan and wasn’t preggers befor hand?
I’m shocked I’m posting in the pit…I didn’t think I’d ever do this but this is something I feel strongly about.
Yes, I can see reasons to take out the insurance policy and I agree with the idea that given enough photos, there could be just one with a big goofy grin. I can even think of explanations for the supposed adultry…
But, I’ve had a sick gut feeling about this and him way before they ever said anything about investigating him. I’m no psychic or anything but there’s something about this … and there is something that strikes me inside when I see that picture.
I’m with you jarbabyj. There’s something wrong with it…him.
I don’t normally jump to conclusions and I’m sure more evidence is needed to prove anything but if it plays out like my gut tells me it’s going to…
GET A FUCKING ROPE!!!
…well I sure hope this isn’t how the police do their investigating. Criminal cases are not “Murder She Wrote”, that are wrapped up neatly after 43 minutes with a neat resoloution and a whole load of evidence.
He doesn’t want to take a lie detector test-so what? If a family member (no cite that the police have asked him) asked me to take a lie detector test, then I would refuse as well.
…and as stated above a lie detector test is not elligible in court.
…I don’t know much about certain aspects of the American police system-is it usual to go to the family of the victim prior to an arrest being made to say
Doesn’t this prejudice the case? Is this actually what the police said (considering that the police are not actually commenting at the moment) or is just the interpretation of family members?
…how much of this article do we take with a grain of salt-as all the information in the article is taken from the perspective of an obviously upset family?
…and how quick are we to judge a man from his photo? Even more scarily, how quick would a jury be to judge from a photo like that? From the reaction of a lot of people here, it’s no surprise so many innocent people end up on death row…
…and how many of us actually read the artice properly???
It’s a good thing that you don’t normally jump to conlcusions, because I have a feeling that you’d be a pro in no time flat.
But I understand, of course. It’s always difficult to deny the persuasive deductive reasoning of one’s… gut.
Will everyone please remind me…if I ever get into the ballot box and see “cadolphin for Judge” not to vote?
People, people…what part of “innocent until proven guilty” don’t you guys understand? Since when did “that guy creeps me out” become admissable, concrete evidence? Sheesh.
So far, all we’ve got for certain on the guy is (1) he was having an affair, maybe. OK, there’s a picture of him with another woman. Obviously, any two people of the opposite sex standing that close together have to be having a relationship. If only. (2) He took out a life insurance plan on his wife. So we’re stringing the guy up for that? As bup points out, if he was trying to cash in on her death, wouldn’t he have been smart enough either to leave the body where it would be found, or to make it look like an accident? How would any of you like to be convicted on such “solid evidence”?
Jeez, I think some people have been watching too many true-crime shows.
Oh, and CNN is now reporting that the police are denying they told anyone that they know the husband is responsible.
After Richard Jewell, Gary Condit and those three Muslim medical students, you’d think people would learn to hold off on the conclusions.
Oh, and I suppose the police shouldn’t even bother investigating someone who’s been telling them lies? Last I heard, all that the police are doing is investigating.
Investigate? Sure. He’s the husband and he should be investigated. As should everyone else who might know her/have come into contact with her.
What they shouldn’t do, (or anyone else) however, is to pre-judge the man on rumor, unverified information and ridiculous statements of intuituion, gut feelings or instinct.
By the way… what has he said so far that has proven to be a lie? I haven’t really read anything since the linked article in the OP, so I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Did he get caught in a lie?
This morning’s news reported that he’d informed the police that he didn’t take out insurance on her. Apparently {<------ NOTICE THE WORD APPARENTLY} he did. The news also reported thta he’d informed the police that he wasn’t having an affair. Apparently he was.
NOT EVEN ONCE WRING? :dubious: Tell the truth now.
Skip: I have to say that accusing the police of prejudging the man is not exactly kashrut either. For one thing, they have to investigate anything that anyone tells them, if for no other reason than to discount it as a factor.
And I have to defend myself just a bit. I didn’t mean to imply that the big toothy smile made him guilty…it just seemed very very odd. I’m just thinking of my own experience with funerals, and perceiving how I’d feel if my husband was missing and presumed dead…it just seemed odd. That’s all.
Well, as far as people citing times when they have laughed at a wake, funeral, I would argue that it must be a horse of a different color when you’re pregnant wife is unexplicably missing and things are looking pretty grim. Sure, my father-in-law died last year after a long illness and the funeral gathering afterward could’ve been confused with a great party; HOWEVER, he was not murdered in the prime of his life with his infant child. I cannot imagine being able to muster up any kind of emotion that would resemble anything other than agony if I were in “Laci’s husand’s” shoes. But, I understand, that is just me. I have never been in his shoes.
Another thing that’s nagging at me…it seems to me that the last high profile crime where a complete stranger killed (as in senseless random murder not knowing the victim) a woman in advanced pregnancy was the Manson clan. Umm, 30-odd years ago. Being an average Jane, it just seems really, really unlikely that she would be a target of abduction/murder for even the lowest of scum. IAN an FBI-er, but I would wager a guess that the statistics would be pretty much against a complete stranger abduction being likely.
As far as all the gossip, the most disturbing thing to me was that after the police (apparently) spoke with the family, they closed the volunteer headquarters. It seems like they know a lot more than what the public knows if they took that action.
And you don’t think that if these allegations are proved that his problems would start to increase in magnitude? Interesting.
Actually, I wasn’t accusing the police of anything. I was responding to the notion that some people in this thread seemed to want the police to convict the guy merely on either rumor or one photograph.
I simply meant that those who asserted his guilt based on gut instinct or that one photograph were wrong. That’s all.
You’re serious? You actually got that from my post? How?
Asserting without evidence, I mean. For all we know, some of these people (in this thread) might be right. At this point, though, they would just be correct due to mere guesswork, not because they had knowledge of what happened.
This just in…
Fox news just reported something about him being wanted for questioning in a disappearance a few years ago.
Yikes.