48 Hours: David Camm (re-run)
Eight months ago, I wrote about David Camm’s 3rd trial and him being set free. You can read about it here.
I do not believe David Camm and here are some of the reasons:
1. David Camm has not shown any genuine and real negative emotions about losing his wife and family to murder from day one in all the video I have seen of him over the years. He is as cold and blank as can be…
2. YET when David Camm is accused of sexual molesting his daughter, we see real emotion for the first time. THIS upsets David. We see stress in his forehead for the first time. I find that shocking. What’s weird about David Camm is that this seems to upset him more than the killing of his family. This is a “wow” moment for me.
4. We see very real emotions in David Camm when he gets set free, too–he seems to feel way more emotions for himself than he ever showed for his wife and family.
5. At the end of the show when David Camm said he didn’t want to share any memories of his wife because they are all he had left, I felt that was a cold and callous response. If he loved his wife, he would want to share how beautiful and special she was with the world because she was taken away way too early and so were his children, but he couldn’t do it. It was notable to me. Almost bitter. I cannot reconcile this.
Now imagine you are wrongly accused of murdering your family and of molesting your daughter. Which one would upset you most?
I think all people would feel more violated about being accused of killing three people versus and unsubstantiated sexual abuse claim, but not David Camm.
Read this excerpt from 48 Hours:
With Boney convicted, Camm was feeling better about his second trial, especially because the judge threw out the conspiracy charge. But he had to worry when he heard prosecutor Keith Henderson tell the jury about those unproven suspicions that Jill was molested.
Asked what it was like to hear those allegations, Camm told Schlesinger, “Now that — makes my blood boil,” he replied in 2013. “…that’s the one thing that really infuriates me, more than a lot of things.”
“Because?” Schlesinger asked.
“Because it’s not true and because it is so inflammatory,” Camm replied.
Wasn’t everything not true, if he was innocent??? Or was it only the molestation charge?
Camm sure makes you wonder, doesn’t he?
I’d honestly consider sexual abuse allegations the worst thing one could be accused of. I think there is nothing lower then taking the joy out of someone’s life, causing deep psychological damage, and keeping a person around only to continually abuse them for your own pleasure.
I have to disagree. I saw genuine emotion in David Camm. And more importantly, the evidence excludes him. There is NO evidence he ever met, saw, spoke to or even had knowledge of the existence of the actual murderer- and obviously the murderer’s ridiculous story doesn’t fit the evidence, considering Camm was unequivocally NOT at the murder scene at the time of the crime. There’s just absolutely nothing pointing to him in this case- nothing. I think this can be chalked up to one grieving more privately than openly. Also, I have to say that it makes total sense to me that Camm would get very emotion when accused of molesting his daughter. That’s a horrendous crime and wouldn’t a molester NOT get emotional when accused of such an act?
Genuine emotions have markers. I don’t think you are aware of them to write what you have, and yes, someone who molested their daughter could get emotional because they don’t see themselves as a “molester” or a “monster”. They think they were just showing a different kind of affection, so we completely disagree.
I’m aware of genuine emotions and their markers, actually. I studied psychology in depth in college both undergrad and graduate level. And I still disagree. Perhaps I have seen David Camm speak on more than just a couple of edited television shows.
“Edited TV Shows” don’t edit out the emotions of a person…
So they show a complete picture of the person in that 25 minutes? If that person had gotten extremely emotional off camera, you wouldn’t know it, correct? So you couldn’t say one way or another whether Camm “ever” gets emotional. He has told this story hundreds of times. He was very emotional in the 911 call and emotional in interrogation.
Britt — I don’t want to argue with you and I am not saying you are ignorant. You don’t seem to show understanding of the 7 universal expressions of emotion, and if TV interviewers weren’t good reliable sources, I wouldn’t have the track record I have (95% in 7.5 years of tracking my ability). So it doesn’t matter if he gets emotional off screen. He is who is he on screen too and that reveals very reliable information. Please know its okay to disagree.
Obviously I know it’s ok to disagree, seeing as posted my disagreement with your opinion, which started this exchange…
With all due respect, I am quite intelligent, and the 7 universal expressions of emotion aren’t difficult to grasp. I understand them quite well. My point is that I have SEEN those 7 expressions in other interviews.
The EVIDENCE is what sways me the most. There was no evidence of long term sexual assault- only ONE traumatic injury that may or may not have been caused by sexual abuse. No evidence exists pointing to Camm as a molester OR a killer.
However, I don’t think it’s very professional to accuse anyone who disagrees of you of ignorance. You have seen David Camm speak for a total of, what, 25 minutes? How do you know I haven’t seen him speak on more than those (edited) occasions? I know many, many people that would also disagree with you on this case.
Until you have been falsely accused of murder you will never know how it feels and what emotions will show. I have seen murderers show almost real emotions yet there were no doubts they killed. This was a perfect example of prosecuting team who did not explore other avenues and would not admit they were wrong. The one thing that led me to believe Camm’s innocence is that as a state trooper he would know better than to have the guy deliver the gun to his house. Also why did that Boney stay around to watch Camm kill his family?
I think he acted properly in not sharing the good times with the TV audience. I would suspect him if he did share too much.
Maybe he didn’t love his wife. He may have actually not wanted to be in a marriage, but that doesn’t make him a murderer.