James Henslee Interview
Amy Henslee was a stay at home mom in Michigan who went missing last week on Monday. According to her husband, he called her at home per his daily ritual at in the morning and when Amy didn’t answer, he went home to check on her. When she wasn’t home by 4 PM, he called the police to report her missing. The police didn’t respond until 10 PM that night, thinking Amy left voluntarily, though she had no car and left her purse at home.
Read moreAmy’s body was sadly found with her friend, Tonya Howarth, shot to death three days later. Howarth was dating Amy’s husband’s cousin, Junior Lee Beebe. Howarth and Beebe had be cohabitating on and off for several years.
In this video above, Amy’s husband James talks about his wife.
James clearly doesn’t have normal emotions–negative emotions–one would expect when a loved one is murdered. It definitely raises my eyebrows. He says, “Those big brown eyes–that smile, nobody could resist her.”
James says, “It’s been rough…you know, its been rough, but Amy’s with me and she’s keeping me strong for our kids and….because she wants…our kids to be happy… and so… I’m hanging in there.”
James also shows no stress in his forehead, which is surprising.
About talking to the couples children about the murder of their mother, James say, “I just told them that I talked to God and ah…he said that he needed their mother top help him out, you know….so she can make a difference in the world–so she can help other people. That’s wha…that’s who she is…she’s a helper. She helps everybody she can in any way. It’s like she’s always wanting to be in the hospital to help children, and she’s always at the schools helping children, everything. She was put on this earth to help people, and she’s going to keep helping people.”
James seems to have no anger, no sadness–no negative feelings and it doesn’t sit right with me. Why isn’t he mad about his wife being murdered? Why isn’t he upset that she is gone? He seems to have no problem accepting the outcome. He talks about her in past tense so its not shock or denial.
James says he lives in a great town, has great friends and family…everything appears to be just “great’, doesn’t it?
When he is asked what memory is keeping him warm right now, I see James Henslee shrug his shoulder as if he thinking, I don’t know … then he says, “Just that smile of hers and getting to tell her that I loved her everyday and the love — that love keeps me holding on.” Yet ironically, he is as empty as a tin can when he says it.
He says, “Just the way she says things and puts it out there, its just lovely.” I’m not buying it.
The reporter says I would be remiss if I didn’t ask you about DJ and all of that. James says, “You know I don’t have a whole lot of information. I haven’t talked to detectives or anything, and I haven’t even had the TV on because its just hard to deal with, I have a lot going on and ah, Amy is just a great person and loving and we’ve had a tight relationship for years…”
You would think the first thing he would want to know is WHY???! but strangely he doesn’t. This pings me as very unusual.
The reporter says, “Is there something you’d want to ask him?” and James shakes his head no. It’s notable. Then he sighs in frustration and thinks. He then says after he shakes his shoulder implying he is thinking I don’t know and says, “Ask him what the hell is wrong with him.” Clearly, this was not an authentic response. If you notice, he shakes his head yes when he finishes as if he is confirming that was the right thing to say. It’s a red flag. Then he has the subtlest expression of fear on his face that is almost not even measurable. You can almost feel his heart racing at this point. He is uncomfortable. Why is uncomfortable here?
When he is asked if he wants to say anything else, he ironically talks about the working dogs.
James talks about how the police need to respond as soon as someone thinks something is wrong, but in the same sentence he says, “We couldn’t have stopped what had happened…”
WHAT?
How could he know that??? Most events can be stopped if we get there in time. Have police told him they know she was shot immediately? How could he know that his wife couldn’t have been saved at that time? This bothers me. We need to do some fact checking. Has a time of death been floated around? Is there evidence they were shot on the spot and buried?
James says about calling Amy every day in the morning, “It’s going to be hard to get back in that routine without being able to ah (smile, grin, shoulder shrug) associate with her like that, you know? And listen to that beautiful voice and come home to that smiling face, but thinking of that, keeps me strong.”
Associate with her like that??
James doesn’t act like a victim of a crime here, which he clearly is, if he had nothing to do with the crime. I think some digging is in order on this case.
I am suspicious of James from his behavior…and while this interview isn’t conclusive, it puts me on high, high alert!