Zahra Baker’s Bio Mom: Emily Deitrich

/in /by

My ThoughtsWhen I watch Zahra’s bio mom, Emily, I think she is distraught about her daughter’s situation. There is no doubt about it. Her lip quivers as she says, “I never got to say goodbye.” Her forehead shows genuine stress, though I don’t see any tears. Later I do think she is genuinely crying. I see a tear and smudged makeup. She also sniffles.

When the video shows Emily walking through the gardens talking to the reporter, her pain seems to be an afterthought, which is odd. Is she one to live in the moment? We do have to remember that she has been far removed from her daughter for years so she doesn’t have the day-to-day memories most mothers have, so her reminders are not as constant for a mother who provides full-time care.

Emily says she doesn’t feel that her daughter is alive, and that is a fair statement for her to make considering the news that no one has seen Zahra in a long while, that her prosthetic leg was found without Zahra, etc. so that is not a red flag for me. Emily makes sense that hearing the way Zahra was treated, thinking she is still alive hurts more. That is a compassionate statement.

At 1:25, she gives an incredible macro expression of anger. Its intense. Her lip stays tense as she says with another macro expression of disgust, “I can’t explain the anger, the hurt, I don’t…he had no right to do any of it, to keep her from me.”

My heart goes out to little Zahra. She didn’t have a fighting chance from the day she was born.

Thanks, Ava, and all the people who sent me this update.

West Memphis Three Get Hearing

/in /by

If the video doesn’t load, click here.

To read my thoughts on the West Memphis Three, click here.

More From Tiffany. Again.

/in /by

My ThoughtsHere are areas in the video above that flag me:

HOLT: If you could tell me a little bit about the memorial you have planned and how you hope it will allow you to achieve some closure.

Ms. HARTLEY: Well, we’re going to celebrate David’s life. That’s the plan for Sunday. We are going to have a slide show, just kind of showing him growing up and who — the man he became, and then I’m doing a slide show separate for David and I and our love story and where we began and ultimately where it ended from there.
…

Ms. HARTLEY: And it hasn’t ended, it’s just…

…

HOLT: Tell me where your expectations lie right now. Have you — have you given up on the notion that someone will be arrested and prosecuted for killing your husband, or is your focus now on just getting his body back?

Ms. HARTLEY: It’s just mainly getting David’s body back. I don’t really think they’re ever going to find the person who did it. I mean, you have three boats and minimum of three people probably in each boat. So I think it’s going to be pretty difficult to pin down who did it. We just ultimately want David back, and I’m very frustrated that Mexico, you know, hasn’t really stepped up, and either has our government — hasn’t stepped up to get it done and just, you know, it just seems so easy to me, but I know there’s legal stuff and everything. But it just seems like they’re not doing enough.

MY THOUGHTS:

This is the first time I heard Tiffany say there were three boats with a minimum of three people in each. Notice she hedges with the word probably? I recall her saying there only two guys in the one boat that pointed a gun at her when she was supposedly in the water with David. This woman can’t do a consistent interview to save her soul.

I was also taken by the facts she feels it would be easy to get David back! What does she know that we don’t??? Or he she just rambling nonsense because she isn’t speaking the truth. I suspect it is the latter, personally. Getting a body, if her story is true, back from a drug cartel is not an easy thing. I think anyone who believed the story could agree to that!

When Tiffany talks about the service on Sunday (yesterday) for David, I find her sentence structure odd, like she is about to talk about David in present tense again when she says, “who…the man he became.” Was she going to say the man he is? Was that almost a slip of the tongue? She self-censored, that’s for sure. Why?

And I am taken at how it causes her no grief to say “ultimately where it ended from there” as if she were talking about a road trip, and not her life and her husband’s life. It’s ridiculous!

Nothing about Tiffany Hartley squares with the truth in my eyes. Her words don’t fit, her emotions don’t fit, her behavior doesn’t fit. Nothing that Tiffany does in my eyes supports the story she has given us!

To read my original thoughts on Tiffany Hartley, click on the label below and scroll down to the first post. Posts are in reverse chronological order.

Thanks, Karon, for the link and updates!

Matt Baker: Web Extra from 48 Hours

/in /by

Here are two fascinating web extras from last week’s 48 Hours.

Erin Moriarty puts Matt Baker on the spot. Watch him give excuses!!

Here we see Vanessa Bulls talk about what she knows. Her demeanor is so detached and clearly she is giving us a “story”. I love how she tells us “It never got inappropriate or anything.” Yeah, right! She says at another point, “I though it was a little weird having a dead person’s cell phone, but I thought, well, it’s not like…he’s not married anymore. You know what I mean? He’s…he’s not married, so that shouldn’t make me look bad or anything like that.”

Hopefully no one has their doubts about Matt Baker anymore. Vanessa Bulls finally decided to tell the truth after some horrifically poor judgment on her behavior.

Josh Powell Breaks His Silence

/in /by

Josh Powell has had very little interest to find his missing wife, who went missing almost a year ago in December. At the time she disappeared, he gave us a filmsy story that he and his two toddler sons went camping in sub-freezing temperatures during a blizzard in the middle of the night on Sunday and Susan just decided to say home. While he was gone, Susan disappeared–she left on her own volition, according to Powell. It was absolutely absurd. Everyone and there brother figured out what likely happened–especially when they heard that two fans were found running in the residence drying a wet spot on the carpet. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know what happened. Josh paints a pretty clear picture, sadly.

Now Josh speaks out for the first time in nearly a year to the Salt Lake Tribune saying that Susan was “extremely unstable” and worse, Josh Powell’s father is saying, according to reports, that Susan ran off with another man–that she was “very sexually motivated”. It’s disgusting (yes, I am making that face)!

Josh’s father says that Susan had a tendency to lose control much like her mother.

There is an eerie ring to that statement, but if you ask me, it applies to the Powells, not to Susan’s family! Often time deceptive people have a tendency to paint their sins on others.

Josh was also reported to say about Susan, “She will be chewed up like hamburger when she comes back.”

In this report above, they also talk about the two fans that were running in the house–drying the carpet. Supposedly Josh now reveals what investigators haven’t — that there was a “red” spot on the carpet, but he says “Susan” wanted it cleaned, not him.

Absurd.

My heart goes out to the Powells. Thankfully they can take peace in one area. I think everyone sees who the monster is, and it is not Susan.

Thanks, Karon, for the link and help!