Dylan Redwine Story on Dr. Phil

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Yesterday, Dr. Phil spent the last 15 minutes of his show talking with Elaine Redwine, mother of Dylan, 14, who missing on November 9, 2012.

Dylan’s parents were divorced and Dylan flew in to spent some time with his dad. On the day after his arrival, Mark, Dylan’s father said his son wouldn’t get up in the morning, so he went to run errands without him. When he came back, Dylan was missing.

Dylan’s remains were found in June 2013 on a mountain side 10 miles drive from Mark Redwine’s house, and according to reports only 2% of his remains were actually found.

Dr. Phil had Mark and Elaine Redwine on before, and I have seen both parents in multiple interviews. The last time Mark was on Dr. Phil he agreed to take a polygraph and then admitted to heavy drinking the night before the test, which if I remember right disqualified him for the test. And now, this time, Dr. Phil offered for him to take a lie detector again, and he refused. This does not concern me at all. Mark is not the type of guy who functions well under pressure. Furthermore, he talks about a polygraph he took prior to this one, and I can’t help but wonder if it came out inconclusive, and hence why Mark has fears. I would have fears too if I took a polygraph and it couldn’t tell if I was truthful when I was. I absolutely wouldn’t take another one. Why on earth would anyone take that risk on something that isn’t even scientific?

I do not see any hotspots in Mark’s behavior that indicate to me that he is being deceptive about his son’s disappearance in this interview. The police have been to Mark Redwine’s house and Elaine’s latest request (for her to go to his house with the sheriff) wouldn’t serve any other purpose but to try to pin the crime on Mark again. I think he was wise to refuse her request. The police have already executed a search warrant for Mark’s house. It isn’t like she would get “new” information to solve the crime. The Sheriff already did that.

I do see Dylan’s mom, Elaine, bent on a mission to convince people that Mark is the murderer rather than to actually find the truth. This concerns me. In Elaine Redwine’s initial interviews, she was inconsistent, and flagged me, though I specifically stated it doesn’t mean that she was involved. I cannot say what the inconsistencies mean. I can just say she was inconsistent. Mark hasn’t flagged me as deceptive. I had a couple of questions I wanted to ask him from previous interviews, but overall, nothing jumps out at me.

This case is a true mystery. I’d like to be able to sit down and talk to both parents to get to the heart of this story, personally.

Looking at Andreas Lubitz

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You have probably already heard the news of the Germanwings pilot, Andreas Lubitz, who is now being looked at for intentionally slamming the plane he piloted and that carried 150 passengers into the mountain.

Why would a man do this?

A capable man who held a respectable job?

It’s mind-boggling.

Lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit, experts speculate, and put the plane into a direct descent into the mountain.

When I look at Lubitz in photo (no longer available), I see a man who shows great neutrality in his face. This means he is not one to be emotional or act out emotionally. He was likely neutral in most of his interactions with people and in life.

This attribute can actually contribute to a superior pilot because a person like this isn’t driven by fear, or reacts to fear in the ways most people do, so he will react well under pressure. He and people who are emotionally neutral simply have a different emotional make-up. It can be good or it can be bad. It can have different manifestations.

Someone who is emotionally neutral may experience life on a very even-keel, or they could experience a void–a lack of feeling emotions all together–where they are checked out and removed–apathetic. There can be various reasons for this.  Both would lead to different personalities. I’d need more information to see how it could affect Lubitz.

I also see a gullibility in his face, and perhaps a lack in his sense of self.

When I saw that, it stopped me dead in my tracks. What that could mean caused my heart to stop.

Someone who is gullible could fall under the manipulation of someone sinister, right?

It can’t be ruled out. I am not saying this did or did not happen, but it has to be considered.

Was there some undercurrent in Lubitz life that people are unaware of? I would certainly want to investigate it.

Predators prey on people’s weaknesses.  Psychopaths are notorious for spotting people’s weaknesses instantaneously.

Have we ever thought about testing pilots, in today’s age, for gullibility? I mean we could have an outstanding and technically skilled pilot, but what if in other areas of his life he was unsure and susceptible to outside influence? This is a vulnerability.  I don’t think the prevalence would be high, but it could have some statistically significant where we might not want to ignore it.

I am not saying that is what happened here, but it is a possibility.

What other things can you think of that would have caused this man to drive a plane into a mountain and kill everyone including himself?

We have to assume he underwent regular mental health check-ups that would spot obvious signs of mental illness. I wonder when his last mental health check was?

Feel free to discuss this below.  This blog is about understanding human behavior and deception, which appears to be very applicable to this sad story.

Tyler Deaton on 48 Hours

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Did you catch 48 Hours this weekend? It’s a mystery as to what actually happened to Bethany Deaton. Did she commit suicide or was she murdered?

Bethany was found in her van with a bag over her head. She had inhaled the bag into her mouth, according to reports, and died with her eyes open, which according to investigators, was unusual.

Bethany was married to Tyler Deaton, and their relationship involved a lot of twists and turns with stories of Tyler running a cult to ultimately identifying himself as gay. He claims to have never consummated his marriage to Bethany, and yet with these weird circumstances calls himself “charismatic” oddly.

One thing is clear:  Tyler was able to get people to follow him through the guise of religion and he got people to do what he wanted. I am not sure “charismatic” is the term for that, but it seems to be Tyler’s word.

Tyler demonstrates in his interview with 48 Hours that he is very comfortable bending the truth when it suits him.

“You manipulated several men into having sex with you. Is that right?”  Troy Roberts, on 48 Hours, asked Deaton.

“[Laughs] No. That’s not correct,” Tyler replied.

“Well, correct me,” said Troy Roberts.

“I’ve never had sex with anybody,” said Tyler.

And yet Boze Herrington, one of his cult followers, said, “He told us that he had been … practicing for his honeymoon with another guy but not in a sexual, just a physical way.”

You can clearly see the manipulation here.

He later admitted to having oral sex with a guy, but not “sex”.  Yeah, right.

So what happened to Bethany?

I do not believe that Bethany committed suicide.

And I can say this:  I do not trust Tyler one iota. His reactions to what happened to Bethany make absolutely no sense, if he is uninvolved as he wants us to believe. What level of involvement he has, I would need to see more interviews.

I am happy to hear the police are continuing to investigate this case.

Tammy Meyers Road Rage Incident

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I am sure most of you have heard about the Las Vegas road rage incident where 44-year-old mom, Tammy Meyers, was gunned down, critically injured and was taken off of life support on Valentine’s Day. It’s a tragic story.

A reader who follows my blog saw this clip of the incident a couple of days ago, and wrote me immediately asking me to review it.

There is something in here that is suggestive there is a back-story going on.

Do you hear it?

It makes me really curious to hear both sides of the story before making a judgement on who fired first, though absolutely no one deserved to die. This is a very tragic example of how emotions can lead you to make a bad decision (on both sides of this tragedy).

I will share my thoughts in the comment section in the coming days.

Dateline: Who Killed Nancy Pfister?

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What a tale a life can weave. Nancy Pfister was a privileged woman, and lead a life of no apology. She was who she was, she felt worthy and had no problem putting people where she believed they belong whether they truly belonged there or not.  It did not seem to matter to to Nancy at all. She was going to tell you her feelings–like it or lump it. She was known to boss people around as if she were a higher being. And so it is ironic that she ended up being silence in murder.  Someone gave her an ultimate opinion that she would be no longer.  You have to be careful how you treat people as any wise person will tell you.

So who killed Nancy Pfister? If you watched Dateline this past weekend, the story goes in circles from blaming the renters of Nancy’s place, the Stylers, to pointing the finger at and retracting the finger to Nancy’s friend, Kathy Carpenter.

In the end, the doctor, William Styler, who rented Nancy’s place with his wife Nancy, confessed to the murder. But I will tell you that his confession was a complete lie. There was nothing believable in it. His story was actually laughable.  Could William Styler kill Nancy?  I believe yes, it is plausible (anyone can kill someone laying in bed with a hammer), but I don’t believe he did it.  William Styler really showed his true colors by playing the “poor aging man” game, though, going from walking to suddenly needing a wheelchair.

When I listened to and watched Kathy Carpenter, she made it clear, too, on multiple occasions, that she knew way more than she was telling us. She slips up several times saying things an uninvolved person would not say. Keith Morrison does a great job at asking Kathy why she wants “forgiveness” from Nancy’s Pfister’s daugher. Hello! The fact that Kathy “saw” things at the crime scene that aren’t logical, and that she just had to open that closet makes no logical sense. Who would assume when someone isn’t in their room that they are locked in a closet?  So Kathy was there, and did see Nancy covered in blood without question. She knew where the injuries were.

As for Nancy Styler, I don’t believe her either.  She is a cold woman to say the least.

William Styler shows some compassion or desire to do good by his wife, by confessing to the crime, and bargaining to set her free. And Kathy on her own doesn’t hit me as the type to commit murder outright. She wants “forgiveness”. Both the actions of Kathy and William so some level of compassion.  Kathy is also the type who is highly influenced by other people, and weak in character.

The one who hits me most capable in all of this is Nancy Styler.

I have to wonder if Nancy Styler and Nancy Pfister got into it. These two were two very head-strong women who wouldn’t easily compromise or come to a peaceful resolution, and both where likely to hold grudges and get viciously angry. I wonder if an argument ensued, and perhaps Kathy showed up, was called, or came by, and things went wrong.  Maybe Nancy Pfister stormed off and went to bed with ear-plugs in place, and got something she never saw coming…

I believe all three people Nancy, Kathy and William know exactly what happened and I suspect the mastermind was Nancy.