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Here is a photo that was recently released in the media of Adam Lanza. The photo comes from his student identification card for Western Connecticut State University. He was only 16 at the time.
What emotion do you see?
Many of you wonder what I think about Sherry West’s story. I am deeply troubled by it on many levels. Clearly, Sherry West is a tortured and troubled soul, and I am suspicious by her behaviors that she has deep emotional problems, and hence mental illness cannot be ruled out. With that, I want to proceed with caution on this: great caution.
I clearly understand why people are flagging this case. I see many, many hotspots in Sherry’s behavior. She has a whine to her voice, she doesn’t shed tears, she has a gun pointed at her and doesn’t believe it is real–even after the prep supposedly shot the the ground beside her, grazed her ear with a bullet and she was shot in the leg and her leg felt “numb”. She tells us she only knew the gun was real when the perp killed her baby. That seems implausibly unrealistic.
I read that the perp shot the baby directly between the eyes. If that is true, how did he get such good aim if she was protecting him?
Sherry doesn’t give us any details about how she tried to protect her baby at all or how she got help. She also refused to give the man her purse despite the fact that he supposedly had a gun and seriously threatened her with it.
It all defies logic.
Sherry also had life insurance on a baby, yet was financially struggling and even complains that having a baby is “expensive” after her baby is killed, which is notable.
I am troubled by the fact Sherry tells her daughter that her brother is dead and then immediately asks when she will get a payout from the insurance.
Sherry also tells us that she is disabled, and that she has already had two cash payouts. That raises my eyebrows.
I do not find Sherry a trustworthy person at all. I would be scared to death of her if I met her on the street, even before any of this happened. She is a person that I would only trust what I could verify with my own eyes regardless of what she says because she is emotionally tortured and all over the board.
I believe the only way to get to the truth in this case, with Sherry’s emotional issues, is to rely on facts and facts alone, and nothing else. I hope that is what is done in this case. I have had my concerns there have been some rushes to judgement.
I’d also like to see the two accused speak out as well. If they do, please point me to the interviews.
I have always believed the three teens that were locked up over this case were innocent and it is time this case get a closer look to lock up the real perpetrators!
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Thanks, Natasha, for sharing this with me.
I am sure many of you have heard that the Italian Supreme Court has overturned Amanda Knox’s acquittal and has ordered her to be retried. For any defendant in a case, this would be a horrific day, without question.
Many of you are wondering what I think of Amanda Knox.
I have not believed Amanda’s story from day one. I don’t believe she told us what she knew to be true. I believe without question that she has other memories or experiences that she has not shared with us that are in some way related to what happened to Meredith Kercher or the events of that evening.
Does that mean that I believe she murdered Meredith Kercher? It does not. I can never speculate what deception, or information that is withheld will reveal. That would be suggesting I am psychic, which I absolutely am not.
The first clue that Amanda gave us was her changing stories. When people are 100% uninvolved in a crime, they don’t change their stories. They have absolutely no reason whatsoever to do so, but Amanda did. First Amanda told us she was at the house that night and then she said she wasn’t.
The second thing that Amanda did that I cannot reconcile is when she told us she was at the house that night, which I do believe is the truth (yet she redacted). She said something to the effect Patrick and Meredith were in the bedroom and that at a certain point she heard Meredith screamshe was scared so she covered her ears and after that she doesn’t remember anything.
When people are scared of something, they don’t just cover their ears and IGNORE IT. They typically run and investigate what is going on to make sure people are okay, or they seek help if they fear for their or other people’s safety. If Amanda heard screams and covered her ears and did nothing else, it suggests she knew what was going on and isn’t telling us.
The third element that deeply troubles me is that Amanda would point the finger at someone, if she had no involved. Most people who are uninvolved would not do this. They wouldn’t even think to do this!! But if you had something to hide or wanted to mislead people, you would have every reason to do so.
Fourth, what are the odds that Amanda would point the finger at an African man, albeit the wrong one, when one was apparently involved or at the house the night of the murder. The odds seem extremely far-fetched to be a coincidence.
Last, when Amanda testified in court and spoke out in English, I’ve never heard someone so incapable of finishing a sentence. She was unable to give complete thoughts, or make clear and concise sentences. If your life is on the line, you are telling the truth and you spent four years in prison, you would manage to accurately articulate your story because your life depended on it, but Amanda could not. This troubles me. Her manner of speaking was anything but supportive of the truth when I dissected it. And to this day, she has yet to give her version of what truly happened that makes sense, and pulls all of the pieces of this puzzle together.
I do believe Amanda was likely high as a kite that night, and may very well have a blurred memory. She may have visions of bad things happening, and of who was involved and simply didn’t do anything to stop things, or she could have been more involved. I do not know.
I don’t know what the lies ultimately will reveal if they are ever uncovered, but I don’t believe Amanda Knox has been forthright with us from day one. I do not trust that we have heard the truth from her yet. When she is truthful, all of the elements above will be easily explained and understood.
I’m also not sure the Italian court will ever get to the truth. I don’t deny the case was a media circus and the accusations were more whimsical than factually based. Please don’t confuse my opinion as being in agreement with the Italian legal process. My opinions are solely based on the behaviors of Amanda Knox and her alone.