Brad Cooper Trial to Begin This Week

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Brad Cooper claims his wife went out for a morning jog on July 12, 2008 and never returned home.  Sadly, her body was later found in a drainage ditch not far from the couples home. Three months later police arrested Brad Cooper for the murder of his wife. His murder trial is expected to start this week.

The court is having a difficult time filling the jury seats in this hard economic time. They’ve gone through the entire jury pool  as they believe this case will take at least a month of time and payment will likely only be around $1,000 for the service.

Unfortunately, Brad didn’t speak out to the media outside of thanking people for searching for his wife early on in the case, and it wasn’t until his deposition was released that I got to see and hear Brad speak. I immediately noticed inconsistencies.

Brad gave us two different stories of what happened that morning. In one version, his wife notices they are out of laundry soap. In the other, he notices. In the deposition, he starts the laundry and does one load. In the affidavit, he says he “could not do laundry”. He gives us to distinctly different accounts for each. This is very telling to me. He can’t keep basic facts straight?

It’s also very notable that Brad talks about getting ready for the girls to “get up” that morning in the affidavit. Yet oddly, in his deposition, he talks about how Katie, his daughter, was up early and fussing because she didn’t have milk, and that he went to get her milk, came home and got a bottle of milk to give to Katie. Then he talks about putting her down.

Clearly, Brad has some serious explaining to do!

Read more of my deposition review here.

Thanks, Karon, for the story update.

Joran van der Sloot Claims Insanity?

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Michelle Money on The Bachelor & A Spoiler?

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Michelle Money was on the Women Tell All on the Bachelor last night. She was confronted by fellow contestants that her behavior was rude and out of line. Michelle told the audience that she just has a sarcastic sense of humor.

I personally don’t buy it. Did you?

Last night, Brad said something in the show that was unscripted and very telling if you ask me. He said that he wasn’t suppose to flirt or show emotions for the other girls–as that is what his “significant other” said to him before the show.

I thought about Emily Maynard and Chantal O’Brien. Which one would say that? Emily is too demure to request that of Brad, so it suggests the significant other is Chantel, if you ask me.

I further analyzed Brad’s behavior and remember that he told us that he doesn’t like to be put under pressure. Knowing that, I don’t think he’d like to have the added pressure to meet Emily’s high standards of her previous love. Will he match up? Will she always compare him? Will he meet her expectations? Brad is not one to like those challenges. He doesn’t want to be compared to the other guy.

Furthermore, Emily gives us the impression of a strong moral ethic and that puts Brad off. Not because he is unethical, but because he doesn’t want to always wonder if he measures up — if his actions are acceptable to Emily. I suspect he feels her standards may be too high for him.

While he is wildly attracted to her, that added pressure is too much for him. If you recall on Emily’s hometown date, at her house, the night he left, it was too much for him to even kiss Emily with her daughter sleeping upstairs. Why? Because he didn’t know if she would find it acceptable or not, and that conflict shut him down.

So based on those elements, I suspect Brad’s final rose will go to Chantel…though reality TV can fool you!

Eyes for Lies Written About in The Daily (IPad)

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The Daily, a newly launched newspaper for the IPad, did a story on Eyes for Lies this weekend in their Sunday edition.  Do you have an IPad?  If so, you can check out this article there, or you can see a print copy here:  The Moment of Truth.

Shelley’s Last Breath: 48 Hours

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Reprint from May 11 2010


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Last Saturday 48 Hours featured the story of Shelley Tyre and David Swain, a married couple who took a Caribbean vacation. While on a dive, the two separated according to David, and when David surfaced, Shelley did not. Shelley died on that dive. Was it an accident or murder?

Read moreDavid Swain was eventually convicted of murdering his wife, and I have to say that I agreed with the verdict. When 48 Hours interviewed David, it appeared to be after the verdict, which we must remember would subdue or eliminate clues to deception as the high stakes are gone, though in David’s situation, I believe clues are still present.

David has absolutely no emotions about the loss of his wife. He doesn’t give us reasonable answers to fair questions, which leads me to believe he isn’t a victim. When asked how he felt when his in-laws thought he killed their daughter, David said he felt sad. That just doesn’t fit with a man who is wrongly accused of a murder he didn’t commit– the murder of his wife! He should be angry, but when questioned if he was, he said her parents didn’t understand diving. I’m not buying it.

David quit CPR within “minutes”, too, which is not common for professionals and David was an EMT. One witness said that David was “emphatic” his wife was dead, which surprised people, and when helped arrived, David said he didn’t want any extraordinary measures taken — he’d seen dead bodies before. Most people who lose a loved one are the last to give up hope. Why was David so accepting of Shelley’s death so quickly?

David denied that he had any affair with Mary Bassler to the point it was absurd, if you ask me. Why would he do that if he was honest? You can see a copy of a letter he wrote to Mary here.

Another thing that tipped me off was the fact that he wants us to believe he is a non-emotional guy–that’s why he isn’t showing emotions for his wife. But if you watch David when they talk about his brother killing his mother, amazingly, David has emotions! He feels pain at the loss of his mother some 30 years ago, but when it comes to the recent death of his wife there is nothing! Isn’t that interesting? Obviously, one death pained him while the other one didn’t, sad to say. If he didn’t feel emotions, it would be across the board, but its not. I could go on and on…

But by far the most peculiar thing I saw on 48 Hours was what David said himself. At approximately 19:00 minutes into the show, David said, “Everybody keeps thinking that I’m doing all this for money. I’m just as happy being flat broke as I am when I’m fat and rich. Probably happier flat broke. Less hassle.”

What?

Did David just make himself culpable? Everybody keeps thinking I am doing all this for the money”. If you are a victim, do you feel any culpability whatsoever? If you were innocent, wouldn’t you say, “People think I did this for the money.” Why is he still “doing all this”?? He is in prison for Pete’s sake. I think it is the tense of the words that he used which really set me off.

Why is he still in action?