Bobby Cutts, Jr. has been found guilty by a jury after only 21 hours of deliberation. Now, at sentencing, he could face the death penalty.
Watch video here as Cutts is given the verdict. Look at his stoic response. Clearly, it is dramatically different than his sobbing testimony.
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Watch and listen to Bobby Cutts, Jr. cry here.
What do you think?
Read moreDoes it strike you as unusual? Perhaps fake?
At first glance, we don’t see tears, but since the camera isn’t dead-centered on him, we can’t be certain he isn’t tearing up, though I would bet great odds that he is not.
What strikes me as unusual and odd here is how Cutts is crying.
I sat and listened to it for a moment, and I began to see a child cry. You know when children get so upset, and they are nearly hysterical, they cry so hard they can’t breath. When they speak, and cry, the words are broken between involuntarily gasps of air. The body forces the child to breath in the midst of his tantrum, like it or not, and the result in an involuntary stuttering of words.
Well, Cutts seems to be imitating this, doesn’t he? But what is causing Cutts to do this? He isn’t in hysterics, he isn’t out of breath from crying so hard. So why is he stuttering his words?
The only time I have witnessed grown adults displaying this behavior is when they ARE in hysterics due to a trauma, accident or crisis, and that display only lasts in the immediate time surrounding the crisis until they gain their composure. It’s more of a shock response than anything. Once the initial shock wears off, this behavior usually dissipates and doesn’t return.
When was the last time you saw an adult cry and grasp for air like Cutts is here when he or she was not experiencing a trauma, crisis or accident but rather recollecting a traumatic event months down the road?
It’s definitely a red flag.
As for the rest of Bobby Cutts story about what happened, what are the odds that someone would die from an accidental hit in the neck with an elbow? The odds are pretty slim. Wouldn’t football players keel over all the time then? Furthermore, if it was an accident, why did he dispose of her body?
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Last Saturday night, 48 Hours profiled the case of Nona Dirksmeyer, a 19-year-old pageant queen who was found dead by her boyfriend Kevin Jones. She was murdered.
Jones was with his mother when he discovered her lifeless body, and his mother called 911. Jones wanted to assist the police with the case, but ultimately he ended up getting charged with her murder and faced a trial by jury.
Read moreSeveral of you have asked me, do I believe Kevin Jones in innocent? The jury let Jones go free, but Dirksmeyer’s family believes he is getting away with murder even still.
The police found Jones’ behavior odd on multiple occasions. When they came to the crime scene after the 911 call, Jones went to shake the police detectives hands, but Jones then realized he was covered in blood from trying to revive Dirksmeyer, and so he pulled back his hands. The police found this odd behavior.
I do not. If Jones was a polite man, his manners are a part of his normal behaviors, and they wouldn’t dissipate in a difficult time. This does not raise my eyebrows.
The police also found Jones behavior in the interrogation room suggestive that he could be a violent person. When detectives left the room where Jones was at, he hit the back of the chair he was sitting in hard multiple times. He was angry and visibly upset. Why would he do that? Does it mean he is violent?
If Jones loved Dirksmeyer, and he wasn’t able to protect her, and someone killed her, he may have felt like a failure. He may have felt like he let Nona down even though he wasn’t there when this happened. This is likely an emotional response due to the feelings of being helpless after the fact. That’s what I suspect was going on here. Or he was frustrated that he wasn’t being believed when he was telling the truth. Could his actions be suggestive of violence? They absolutely could, but it is nothing definitive own its own. If there are not any character witnesses to corroborated that Jones had violent behavior, I would discount this, personally.
Jones volunteered to help the police by submitting to DNA tests and by taking a polygraph, but surprisingly he failed the polygraph which only caused police to look at him even closer. Polygraphs, in my eyes, are not reliable so I wouldn’t much too much into this.
At the crime scene, the police believe they found the smoking gun when they found Jones palm print on the light-bulb of the lamp police believe was used to deliver a fatal blow to Dirksmeyer.
I suspect that Jones could have easily grabbed that light-bulb when he found Dirksmeyer and tried to revive her. Perhaps it was in the way? I do not see this as any smoking gun.
Another interesting fact in this case is that at the scene police found a used condom wrapper, and with that, they theorized that Jones found it and went into a rage, and killed Dirksmeyer because Dirksmeyer had been seeing other men behind his back.
Those other men were ruled out by police.
When I watch Jones, I do not see a man who is violent, and while all people have the potential to be violent, he doesn’t hit me as a man who would kill his girlfriend over her finding a condom wrapper. He is more likely the type to buy into a story that Dirksmeyer would make up to cover herself. Jones was a trusting, honest guy as seen by his willingness to assist the police so freely. I also think it would take more than infidelity with his girlfriend to get Jones murderous. He is not a man who has a temper. Those who knew Jones testified to that fact.
Furthermore, the police only checked the condom wrapper for finger prints, but not DNA. They said the lab would only do one or the other but not both because each test could potentially render the other useless. I find that unusual, but I am not a forensic expert. In either case, no finger prints were found.
And the jury? It took less than 2 days to find Jones not guilty, and I agree with the jury. When I watch Jones’ behavior, I do not see one red flag. I see nothing that alerts me to deception. I see honesty through and through. I believe Jones without any doubts. He is a good person caught in a horrible situation as is his mother.
And it looks like this case isn’t over yet. Remember that condom wrapper? Well, Jones defense attorneys had it tested for DNA and they found some. It belongs to a male other than Jones. Of course, people who thinks Jones is guilty will say this makes sense.
I think this DNA may provide important clues to help solve who really killed Dirksmeyer because it wasn’t Jones, if you want my personal opinion.
Many people have asked me over the past week to comment on Joran’s confession. While I have many thoughts on it, I must say that since Joran spoke in Dutch, it isn’t as easy for me to make concrete comments about Joran’s words or behavior because it is essential for me to hear and understand the words Joran speaks verbatim which I am unable to do here.
Furthermore, seeing Joran’s facial expressions when each word is spoken assists me in understanding him as well, and while I can correlate the main gist of things, I don’t get the deep understanding I normally do by watching words and expressions together like I do when English is the spoken language.
But I do believe the overall message of Joran’s words are still telling. Do know that I am depending on the translated meaning, and if that translation is in any way inaccurate, I retract my thought processes below.
Read more A translation of Joran’s confession is online here. I do not know anything about its source, or the validity of it, but from what I saw on ABC’s television special about Joran’s confession, it appears to be remarkably similar so I will work from it. If you find anything more reliable, please let me know.
People who are wrongly accused of a crime or made a suspect only want the truth to surface. That is their main goal. They do not have the time, energy, or any remote desire to implicate themselves for the fun of it. It’s pure rubbish. It defies logic.
There are aspects of his story that I believe he may “take to the grave” with him.
Joran wants us to believe here that Natalee out-of the-blue convulsed on the beach, and he panicked, and disposed of her. This raises a serious red flag because we are missing the reason as to why.
If it were only a fear-based reaction as Joran wants us to believe, we would expect Joran to run for help, or at worst, flee the situation and leave Natalee on the beach to her own fate. Fear wouldn’t cause him to go this extra mile for no reason. The disposal of her body is very suggestive that something happened that was illegal. People don’t just dispose of someone without a reason. It’s illogical.
One can only speculate about what illegal activity may have happened, but one potential could be the use of a date rape drug. If Natalee had an illegal drug in her system such as this, the implications to Joran could be devastating, and fleeing wouldn’t do him any good. This speculative situation could cause someone to dispose of a body.
Add into the mix what Joran says…
Joran: So they know if they bring the case to court now, it’s done. Even if they find that girl dead with my sperm in her…
Joran doesn’t says he had sex with her, so why is he talking about “sperm”? It shows Joran is still contradicting himself which is a red flag. With that, we are left to add up the pieces of the puzzle to see what is plausible and what makes sense. People behave in predictable patterns. If there was a date rape drug used here, sperm, again would make sense.
Furthermore, I find it strange that Joran says he will take his friend’s name to the “grave with him”, and then he volunteers a name at another time. It’s another oddity. Joran makes such a strong statement, that is believable, and then he retracts it and gives us a name. Sometimes, when people aren’t telling the truth, they waffle like this, and tell us lies in an attempt to cover themselves.
On top of that, when Joran makes this comment, it raises my eyebrows:
J: They’ve always been good to me, and I’ve always been good to them. So yes, I know who it is, but I’m not going to tell you his name. But it isn’t my parents or anything, but someone who’s a really good friend of mine.
If it was a friend who did this for you, would your parents even enter into your mind? You wouldn’t even think to say it wasn’t them, would you? This raises my eyebrows. To my knowledge, no on has even accused the parents of any wrong doing for Joran to defend them. Why is he defending them? It makes me strongly question, if perhaps his dad was involved. Was his subconscious mind affecting his speech here? It sure makes you wonder.
Another oddity is that his friend was such an incredible person. His friend was willing to step in and be a super hero to Joran. He was willing to take the body, live or dead, and dispose of it even though he supposedly had nothing to do with the situation. His friend was willing to risk his freedom, his reputation, his life just for Joran. This is exceptionally bizarre. Most people will help a friend, but not at the expense of their own life unless there is a payoff of sorts. But at Joran’s young age, I am not sure he could provide a payoff big enough. It’s highly questionable behavior.
Joran’s friend was even concerned for Joran more than himself–telling Joran to go home.
Most friends don’t want any involvement in illegal activities forget about disposing of a body. And then for this “friend” to be willing to dispose of the body without Joran is beyond strange. Normal human behavior, if you do find a friend to help you dispose of a body, is the expectation that you, too, will assist in the disposal. But this friend seems to be abnormal again. It’s another red flag.
P: But where the fuck is she, Joran?J: She’ll never be found. Where exactly, I don’t even know myself.
I believe Joran here. I believe he doesn’t know exactly where Natalee ended up, or how it happened in the end. Someone shielded him–we can be certain about that, but who would be motivated to do that? A friend? Family?
Add this into the mix:
J: So I went and called the guy, not with my mobile, I walked over to the pay phone. I called him, and I told him, “Well… this is what happened. Please come help me. Please don’t call the police.” He says, “No, I won’t call the police, I’m coming to you now.” And then he arrived.
But she did not look normal, you know. He said. “This is not possible. You have to go home. I say “No, I can’t ask you to take responsibility for this.” He said, “You’re going home. I’ll arrange the rest.” I went home then.
Several things about this statement are interesting. First, Joran’s details are really sketchy. He doesn’t really give any indication about what he said to the “friend” on the phone. Second, I have to wonder did Joran’s friend tell him to go home as we see in the translation? Was it that direct, like a parent telling a child what to do? I’d need a translation expert here, but this raises my eyebrows again. Friends don’t usually tell other friends what to do like this. This person was taking charge, telling him what to do. If it accurately translates, who would talk like that to Joran?
Also, was Joran’s friend thinking in legal terms? Did he believe Joran needed to go home to have an alibi, to create an implausible time line for the disposal of the body? Who would think like this?
Joran then says that he had no problems sleeping that night. This is another huge red flag for me, and I think suggestive of who may be involved.
If you shared such a serious life-altering secret with someone, and you and him are the only two people to know this secret in the world, wouldn’t you be paranoid for a while about the fact that someone might have heard something, your friend could talk, people could be on to you? Wouldn’t it keep you up at night?
But strangely, Joran wasn’t nervous. Who could give Joran such confidence in the situation that he could sleep at night?
I think the general gist of Joran’s words are painting a picture here. Do you see what I see?
News reports are saying the McCanns may be cleared from their status of suspects.
Yes, you read that right.
Furthermore, the Portuguese police are saying that they don’t have a shred of evidence against the McCanns.
What do you think about the news?
I’d say it was about time! Let’s hope they actually do it, and not just feed the rumor mill. Until I see it, I won’t believe it.
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I have believed the McCanns from day one. To read more about what I think, you can either click on the labels below to see all posts I have made on the McCanns, or you can read my first post written on Saturday, May 26, 2007 here.
