Tiffany Hartley on the Today Show
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Does this look like a grieving widow to you?
A Study of Honesty: The One Who Got Away
This has to be one of the most chilling and fascinating 48 Hours I have seen in a long time. It aired this past weekend. I was glued to the TV the whole hour. Jennifer Asbenson recounts her nightmare encounter with a serial killer. She missed her bus to work one night and a man offered her a ride. She trusted him and went and nothing happened, so the next day when he appeared at her work again and offered a ride home, she thought nothing of it. It was a devastating mistake. Asbenson describes her frightening ordeal during the 48 Hours episode. To say it is haunting and chilling is an understatement.
Asbenson was Andrew Urdiales only surviving victim and even after all these years, the emotions that Asbenson felt almost 20 years ago are as fresh on her face as the day this happened. That’s because we don’t forget emotional memories. They become seared into our minds and faces.
The fear expressed in Asbenson’s face in this episode just seared at my soul. It scorched my heart.
There is a great lesson in this story. It’s old and often repeated but so poignant. Never go anywhere with strangers you don’t know. Serial killers don’t usually give off any warning signs that they are dangerous. To the contrary, they are usually often masters of manipulation as we see in this story with Urdiales. He gained her trust before taking advantage of her vulnerabilities.
Haunting.
Adam Baker Arrested for Bad Checks
Adam Baker, the father of missing Zahra Baker, was arrested this morning on five counts of writing bad checks and three counts for failure to appear in court. Baker is being held on a $7,000 bond. Zahra’s step-mom has also been arrested on unrelated charges to her disappearance, though police believe the likelihood that Zahra is alive to be slim. No one in little Zahra’s neighborhood had seen Zahra in the weeks prior to her disappearance. Family members are also speaking out that they witnessed Zahra being treated poorly. She wore a prosthetic leg and hearing aids due to cancer, and Zahra’s step mom, Elisa, used to yell at her for not walking fast enough.
Fox News reported that Adam Baker said about his missing daughter when he called 911, “My daughter, I think, is coming into puberty… so we only see her when she comes out and wants something.”
He thinks she is coming into puberty? As if that is an excuse! I believe Adam Baker knows what happened to his little girl and police must now be suspicious, too, because they have locked him up with the bad checks, like this did his wife, until they can find more evidence.
You can read my original opinions of Adam Baker several weeks back here.
Tifffany Speaks from Colorado
Tiffany’s thinking is strange here. She says, “After everything happened was our day that we were going to come back, and the hardest part of all of it, is just leaving without him. And I’d rather him be next to me and be with me than having to all of this by myself.”
She doesn’t show normal thinking patterns. She talks oddly, doesn’t she?
This woman is “off” no matter how you slice it. I do not believe she has done one interview where she didn’t have numerous hot spots. I’d like to see this entire interview. If anyone sees it, let me know.
To read my original thoughts on Tiffany, click here.
Diena Remembers Year Anniversary
Seeker found a video of Diena Thompson that is absolutely mind-blowing to me.
In the video link below (click on the picture to to go News13’s video), when you watch Diena, it is flat out flabbergasting. Here is a mom, recounting the day her daughter vanished (and was later found murdered), and all we see is radiance.
What makes this woman feel so radiant when recalling what is should be hands-down the most horrific day in her life? I hate to say it, but she has an eerie reminiscence to Diane Downs here.
Diena says, “All the people, all the cops, all the lights, cameras, it feels just like that day again, only this time I knew it was going to happen, and I still couldn’t stop it.”
“Still couldn’t stop it?” What???? Does that even make sense?
Where is this mother’s grief? It’s flat out missing!
Things are very troubling with this case and it continues to haunt me. To read my original thoughts on Diena, click here.
