Cummings Pops The Question to Croslin

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I guess it is official that Ronald Cummings and Misty Croslin are engaged. I can’t believe this. It happened last night at a Chili’s restaurant.

Note: The audio doesn’t come in right away in this clip. I don’t know why.

Link to Video

Is Cummings on the fast track to do all the things he always wanted to do?? It sure makes you wonder. Is he trying to keep Croslin happy so she will stay devoted and loyal to him?

More than that, notice how Croslin says, “This is what Haleigh wanted. She’s always talked about it”. Notice she talks in past tense? It’s intriguing, yet very, very sad that these two people can focus on themselves so much at this time. I still feel strongly that these two people know more about Haleigh then they are telling us.

Read more here, or to read all of my thoughts on this case, click on the labels below.

48 Hours: Picture Perfect

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48 Hours Mystery this week profiled the case of Travis Alexander, and Jodi Arias. You can read the story here.

Check back later this week for my opinion.

The Families of Those Who Kill

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I remember in the early days and weeks after Caylee went missing, people were standing in the street in front of the Anthony home, outraged at the Anthonys. I remember being beside myself that people were lashing out at Casey’s parents.

People, to this day, are still expressing anger and scorn at Cindy, George and Lee Anthony. They have a tremendous dislike for them. I suspect it is partly due to the fact they ultimately blame Casey’s parents for her behavior, but I suspect it is more than that. I think they likely loathe Cindy, George and Lee because they aren’t standing up and saying they think Casey had something to do with Caylee’s murder. It’s as if the Anthonys are denying the obvious, to most people, and that makes people go crazy.

Read moreYet the Anthonys are not alone in their denial, which I believe is a survival mechanism. I suspect many other family members of people who have killed likely do the same thing. I’ve said that here several times.

This week, I came across a news article on the father of Diane Downs, Wesley Frederickson. He is offering a $50,000 reward to any information which leads to the release of his daughter. This just made news in February of this year–25 years after his grandchildren were shot and one was killed.

This case is even more compelling than the Anthony case because Diane Downs was convicted of murder and locked up, whereas Casey hasn’t even gone to trial. More than that, Christie Downs, Diane’s 9-year-old daughter at the time of trial, testified against her own mom, saying that she witnessed her mom shoot her and her siblings, and then turn the gun on her own arm.

Making it all the more unbelievable, Diane Down’s father, 26 years later, is still clinging to the belief his daughter just has to be innocent, and that his grandchildren must have been delusional or lying. He even maintains a website to this day here.

I think Diane’s dad gives a new perspective to how powerful denial can be, and how it is a coping mechanism for survival.

I do not judge nor will I ever judge Diane Down’s father or the Anthonys, because to be in their shoes must be pure and utter hell, if you accept the most plausible of truths that their daughters attempted to kill their grandchildren, that their own flesh and blood knew no normal boundaries of love and compassion and had the ability to kill in cold blood.

Diane Downs Re-enacts Crime

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Here is a video of Diane Downs recollecting the crime (in 1983), she says occurred at the hands of a stranger, when her daughter was killed, and her other two children were shot.

Be warned, it’s as chilling as chilling can be. Downs lacks any normal emotions, and actually laughs as she does the re-enactment.

Diane Downs is someone who I could classify as a “negative” person (or as an easy read).

Naturals of Deception Detection & Abuse

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“Lie To Me” this week had a scene where Dr. Cal Lightman and Ria Torres, the natural, were talking about abuse. Dr. Cal Lightman said that because Torres suffered from abuse, that is why she became so good at reading body language. In another episode, Lightman said Torres was good because she didn’t have a higher education, so she had to rely on non-verbal communication more.

I wondered, after I saw those shows, if people wondered if I was a victim of abuse, or if I didn’t have a degree. I am happy to report I hold a masters of science degree, and that I was not abused as a child. I grew up in a solid home with no abuse of any kind. I had and still have loving parents.

I did have a traumatic childhood in school, however. I was bullied for years, I believe, because I was an ultra-sensitive child. If you said you disliked me, I was the type to cry my eyes out. If you told me to go away, I cried for hours. I had the thinnest skin on the planet and with that, I suspect, kids picked up on it and played me to the hilt. I became a victim to my own softness, and it took me until junior high to break out of it. I was highly taunted and teased for many years. It was very traumatic for me.

But if people who are abused develop this “sixth sense”, than there should be a lot of Truth Wizards out there, a lot more than the one percent identified by science. I personally don’t think this explains it.