My Thoughts on Dateline: Father or Son?
I believe the son is telling the truth about who killed his mom, Diane Kyne, and that his father, Bill is a master manipulator.
There are too many elements which do not support William Kyne (I could write pages). The most troubling for Bill is that he has collected on insurance claims four times! He has had four huge crisis in his life. Two deaths of spouses and two fires.
What are the odds?
Bill wants us to believe he has had 1 in a million odds four times.
Right!
Not only did William’s first wife go outside in the middle of the night by a pool and supposedly trip and fall, and Bill collected $250K on her life insurance policy. But Bill also had two insurance fires. Wow.
Bill had an insurance policy that paid out when his automotive business burned down and yet another on an investment property fire.
And now his second wife gets killed, and he has another insurance policy payout totaling $750,000.
Are you kidding me?
Then add to the fact that Bill doesn’t check on his wife and the police find her body within minutes cold when they arrived.
Furthermore, Bill’s DNA was found on his wife’s neck after her death which was ruled a strangulation, and not Kevin’s. I don’t care if Bill was married to her, if Kevin strangled her, his DNA should have been there!
It’s also interesting that Bill says he went to his attorney and had Kevin legally evicted. Not his mother (though she may have capitulated). Kevin’s mom eventually let him back home.
And the reason Bill says Kevin killed was, according to Bill is “because he was being kicked out of the house and wanted his own way.”
Does that make any sense?
If he wanted to kill the person who was kicking him out, it was actually Bill who went to the attorney, wasn’t it? Yes, his mom capitulated, but Bill is the one who went the attorney.
Kevin had a head injury and I don’t know if has affected him, but right now, I see someone who may have symptoms of Asperger’s Syndrome. It makes me curious if his responses are muted due to his head injury or possibly Aspergers. People with Aspergers have difficulty when being interviewed in criminal situations.
I think Bill saw Kevin as the perfect scapegoat, and I wouldn’t put it past him to set Kevin up. He is perfectly capable, if you ask me. I don’t trust Bill whatsoever.
I could write pages and pages on this case!
What happened to all the comments? Eek.
They are still where you put them– in the post before this. This is a new post. Sorry for the confusion.
Ooops. Sorry .. thank you. I feel like a doof 😉
No, don’t. We all do it. I have the same video on both so it makes sense one might confuse them 😉
Wow just wow. I agree with every word you just said. I will even add thst I think bill set up kevin from way back…. to escslate things so that police were called and kevin would look like a hothead. Perfect for bill. Gack. Makes me sick
Ha! I feel so smug now about voting “the husband did it!”. As much as the son does not seem like a sane person, the husband seems sooo much more like the guy who did it. 39:21, the reading of the verdict, husband does not look like somebody mad because the killer of his wife is set free!!! He should have been furious, but he seems more mad at himself than anything. Do we have any lip readers onboard to transcribe what he was ?saying? at that moment?
I may be wrong but he could be saying “no freaking way”.
That was my take on it.
Reading this helped me clarify the way I do interviewing – I look for hot spots first. A hot spot is NOT a sign a person is guilty, but it is a sign there is probably more to the story. That means I need to listen more, dig more, check other sources, etc.
Second I look for patterns. The first rule I tell new recruiters is this: If someone has done something once, chances are very good they’ll do it again, especially in similar circumstances. Not guaranteed, but incredibly likely. In short, people are their consistent patterns of behavior (as difficult as that can be to sort out sometimes).
If I apply the first two rules (look for hot spots, look for patterns) to this case… well… the result is now obvious. Thanks to Eyes for posting this and helping us see the truth in this situation.
Hi Russ
Did you notice that the husband didn’t think the son should get life in prison, because his wife wouldn’t have wanted that? I think he was thinking about, if he winds up convicted of this crime. He wanted to minimize the severity of the crime.
Eyes,
Why do you think the prosecutor won’t see Bill as a viable subject?
Thank you for posting this story and sharing your skills. It’s always fascinating for me to read your thoughts & those of all the commenters. Sadly, two women lost their lives, and many other lives were altered forever in this one.
The step father tapped him on his scar……smh.
Kevin seemed socially odd prior to the surgery. I think your thoughts on Aspergers are justified, especially given the step-sibling saying “he was all about himself and his way all the time.” It’s hard to say given the information, but something is not normal there. I also notice the step-father acting out the role he attributes to his step-son when talking about what happened. Wouldn’t a victim normally act out their own part rather than the aggressor’s when recalling what happened?
A master manipulator. That fits. I admit my ears picked up when I heard about his previous wife tripping and falling into the pool and being found the next day. What I don’t understand is with those four windfalls why he isn’t looked into? He basically set up his step-son to take the blame for the murder! The idea of her son strangling her didn’t make sense to me. The stepfather must be a real chilling person.
Has anyone looked at the news articles on William’s first wife one said she had a garden implement around her neck? Has anyone googled William’s recent arrest record?
I think many of you would feel more certain about this man’s character.
Pinellas county turns their heads.