Marion Jones Thompson on Oprah

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Yesterday Jones did her first interview with Oprah Winfrey since serving six months in prison for lying to federal prosecutors. Oprah did a fabulous interview. She asked key and important questions, and if you want my opinion, Jones squirmed. She squirmed big time. Her words, face, and body language were riddled with clues that she wasn’t being honest with us.

Read moreI don’t think Jones learned her lesson, and to watch her for an entire hour play this “I’m sorry” role was nauseating. If you want my opinion Oprah’s eyebrows were up high, too.

Jones wants us to believe that she was taking flaxseed oil. She told us how she would put it under her tongue, how she was instructed to wait for a minute and then swallow it, and she expects us to believe she didn’t know it was a steriod? Who takes flaxseed oil like that? Anyone?

Give me a break.

Worse, she says when prosecutors showed her a vial with clear liquid and told her it was a steriod, she suddenly realized that the clear vial that she thought was flaxseed was in fact a steriod. In that minute, she wants us to believe she came to terms with what she did, and just decided to lie.

“Before they showed it to me, I never knew what it looked like because it wasn’t introduced to me as ‘the clear,'” she says. “So when they showed it to me and they said, ‘This is the substance,’ and I knew that I had taken that substance. I made the decision that I was going to lie. I was going to try and cover it up.”

This is ridiculous. Would you fess up if you believed you were innocent to a clear vial? Just like that?

More than that, Oprah asked if she ever confronted her trainer about it if she was misled, and Jones said no. Oprah asked her even to this day? And Jones said no, again.

It’s absurd.

“In that fateful moment, Marion says many thoughts ran through her head. “I thought about my family. I thought about how proud they were when I won the medals and when I achieved success and how disappointed they would be,” she says. “I thought about my finances. I thought about my sponsors.”

But she didn’t think about the person who she says duped her?

Anyone buying this story?

When we are wronged, framed, or lied to, we as humans get angry, get upset, and feel violated. We take action and seek answers, but not Marion. She wants you to believe she is the exception to the rule. It’s highly suggestive that she was a willing participant the whole time.

More than that, Oprah played a clip from 20/20 where the drug company founder, Victor Conte, said he saw Jones shoot up once. Oprah asked Jones why would Victor Conte lie? Jones didn’t have an answer, but amazingly she did admit to having met Conte.

Jones says she has permanently retired from the sport, but now wants to help people. Isn’t that ironic? I think she needs to take a good look in the mirror. People aren’t going to be fooled by this one. I think the person who still needs help is Jones herself.

[I added to this review in the comment section below.]

Police Find Body

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[NYDailyNews.com 11:47 a.m.] A body was discovered near the Long Island Expressway Wednesday morning, several miles from where missing schoolteacher Leah Walsh’s car was found, police said.

Police are saying it is too early to tell if it is the body of Leah Walsh.

If you aren’t familiar with this story, see the post below.

William Walsh

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A New York schoolteacher, Leah Walsh, 29, disappeared on Monday after supposedly getting a flat tire on her drive to work. The school where Leah worked contacted her father at noon after she failed to show up for school, and reported her missing to the police as well.

Her father, who then went looking for her, found her car on the side of the highway with a DOT sticker on it saying it was found at 6:30 a.m., disabled. Police say that is standard operating procedure for a car with a flat tire. The police assume the owners went to get assistance.

When police searched the area later with Bill, they found Leah’s purse, but no one has found Leah.

Bill made a plea for his wife’s return. You can watch it here.

Read more “I want my wife back. She can just have my car, she can have everything. I just want my wife back,” says Bill.

Later he says “Please just get the picture out. That’s all we want, okay? [Reporter: Do you know where your wife is?] I got no clue. I got a text from her in the morning, but that was it.”

I can tell you that Bill’s plea put my antenna on high. Absolutely nothing about his plea is logical. Nothing about his plea makes sense.

He not only talks nonsense–that she can have his car and everything–which is illogical if she just disappeared after getting a flat tire, but he pitches his voice up so high in what sounds like a fake attempt to show distress that it almost gets me nauseated.

Furthermore, in the second snippet of Bill talking, when the reporter asks a question of him, notice how as he thinks, his voice pitch goes back down to normal. The thinking caused him to forget to pitch his voice up. It’s an incredible and notable point. When we are really wigged out, our voice pitch says consistent. It doesn’t change this quickly.

Also, do you see any tears? If Bill is so upset, why aren’t there tears?

I don’t trust a word out of Bill’s mouth, unfortunately, but the police are saying that Bill is cooperating.

A friend of Leah’s from Los Angeles, however, is talking:

[The Criminal Report Daily] During an interview with the Daily News, Leah’s friend, Lucas Bean, said that he exchanged text messages with Leah on Sunday and that she allegedly told him that she had gotten into a fight with Bill.

“She was in the car with him texting to me.… She was telling me that things are not going to work out with her and her husband, and she had to tell me something very important, but she needed to wait till she got out of the car with him,” he said.

According to Lucas, Bill and Leah had not been married for long and had separated at least once.

Unfortunately, Bill is tell us the truth when he says that Leah can have his car and everything. He is saying that in hindsight–after the fact. It’s obvious from what Bill tells us, and what Lucas is telling us is that he and Leah did have a fight. Leah wanted a divorce, and one can speculate they were arguing over what she wanted from that divorce. You can speculate further that the fight went horribly wrong, and now that it is over, Bill says what he really feels — though it makes absolutely no sense if Bill is just worried she got a flat tire and was abducted.

It’s a very sad and tragic story unfolding. I only hope I am wrong that Leah returns home safe and sound.

Update 10:20
Reader Susan posted a link to an audio clip below in the comment section. In the audio, Bill says that his wife left at 6:00 a.m.”She texted me in the morning at like 6:25, and that’s the last I heard from her.”

He said her text said “Have a great day. Love you bunches. Mwah!”

If she sent such a sweet text message, why is he worried that she left him again? Why does he say she can have the car and everything? It’s flat out inconsistent. The word “like” stands out to me here, too. It’s an odd choice of words for a true statement. I also wonder if Leah was the type of person to text the gesture of a “kiss”.

Bill is sobbing pretty much non-stop in this audio, some of it I believe is genuine, but I think it is pain and fear for himself rather than for Leah. Why would he give up hope for her so soon? Why would he assume the worst without any evidence to suggest otherwise unless he knows her fate? It’s utterly baffling if he is being honest with us! It makes absolutely no sense.

Drew Peterson’s Days Numbered?

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The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting today that prosecutor is close to solving one of the two cases involved with Drew Peterson.

“I fully expect there to be a resolution in at least one of these investigations in the near future,” Glasgow [Will County State’s Attorney] said in a statement timed for the one-year anniversary of Stacy Peterson’s disappearance.[Chicago Sun-Times]

I suspect that they are close to building a good case against Kathleen Savio, personally, because if they found the body of Stacy Peterson, I don’t think they would be able to have kept that quiet.

It wasn’t that long ago that medical experts shared their insight that there were key indications in the second autopsy of Kathleen Savio that indicated homicide. I suspect more pieces of the puzzle were gathered over the past several months — building a solid case against Peterson.

What do you think?

Need Assistance Regarding Cooper

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Several of you e-mailed me yesterday asking for my opinion about Brad Cooper since his deposition has been released.

In order to expedite your request, if you can find spots in the deposition that you would like me to look at it, that will speed things up for me. Unfortunately, my schedule is tight the next few days and I don’t have the time to sift through eight hours of video.

Read moreSo, if you want my insight and want to help me share my thoughts with you, here is what you can do:

  1. Find questions and answers of Brad that you want me to review.
  2. Identify time markers in the video where Brad talks about the question you want me to look at (video time markers should not be longer than 3-5 minute spans).
  3. Submit to me the question you are curious about, provide me the link and provide me with the time marker span to look at.
  4. Submissions can be posted below.

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