48 Hours: David Camm (re-run)

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Eight months ago, I wrote about David Camm’s 3rd trial and him being set free. You can read about it here.

I do not believe David Camm and here are some of the reasons:

1. David Camm has not shown any genuine and real negative emotions about losing his wife and family to murder from day one in all the video I have seen of him over the years. He is as cold and blank as can be…

2. YET when David Camm is accused of sexual molesting his daughter, we see real emotion for the first time. THIS upsets David. We see stress in his forehead for the first time. I find that shocking. What’s weird about David Camm is that this seems to upset him more than the killing of his family. This is a “wow” moment for me.

4. We see very real emotions in David Camm when he gets set free, too–he seems to feel way more emotions for himself than he ever showed for his wife and family.

5. At the end of the show when David Camm said he didn’t want to share any memories of his wife because they are all he had left, I felt that was a cold and callous response. If he loved his wife, he would want to share how beautiful and special she was with the world because she was taken away way too early and so were his children, but he couldn’t do it. It was notable to me. Almost bitter. I cannot reconcile this.

Now imagine you are wrongly accused of murdering your family and of molesting your daughter. Which one would upset you most?

I think all people would feel more violated about being accused of killing three people versus and unsubstantiated sexual abuse claim, but not David Camm.

Read this excerpt from 48 Hours:

With Boney convicted, Camm was feeling better about his second trial, especially because the judge threw out the conspiracy charge. But he had to worry when he heard prosecutor Keith Henderson tell the jury about those unproven suspicions that Jill was molested.

Asked what it was like to hear those allegations, Camm told Schlesinger, “Now that — makes my blood boil,” he replied in 2013. “…that’s the one thing that really infuriates me, more than a lot of things.”

“Because?” Schlesinger asked.

“Because it’s not true and because it is so inflammatory,” Camm replied.

Wasn’t everything not true, if he was innocent??? Or was it only the molestation charge?

Camm sure makes you wonder, doesn’t he?

In control of your emotions? Maybe not…

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When people commit suicide we are often left wondering why. Why were they not able to control their emotions? Did they suffer from mental illness? It seems so “off balance” when someone takes their own life to the average healthy person. It seems like such a dramatic choice because most of the time there seems to be solutions to what appears to be short-term crises.

What if scientists told you that people who commit suicide don’t have the same responses as you or I do? That they have a different chemical makeup? That they can’t control their emotions. Would you believe it?

Would it surprise you?

In fact, that is what scientists are finding. They have identified an altered chemical state in one of the genes of people who have faced suicidal thoughts or actions. And what’s cool about this is one simple blood test in the future may be able to prevent such a horrific outcome by identifying the problem before it becomes a problem.

I am not surprised at all because I believe we are much more chemically and biologically controlled than any of us would believe.

You can read more here!

Do you think you are in control of your body, or do you think your body controls you more than you realize?

Missing Jennifer Huston: Husband Speaks Out

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When I watch Jennifer’s husband, Kallen Huston, speak out in this video, nothing stands out to me as notable or concerning.

In the relationship, however, the more dominant and most regimented person of this couple is Kallen. Jennifer is soft soul who likely tried to do what pleased Kallen. Could she have decided to run off? It is possible. Is it likely? No. Jennifer wouldn’t leave her family guessing unless she felt extreme pressure to do so…

Michael Vilkin versus John Upton: What really happened?

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ABC 20/20 featured the story this past weekend of John Upton and Michael Vilkin–both neighbors who didn’t get along.

Vilkin owned a vacant lot and tended to it as if it were a full-time job but Upton had some serious complaints that he aired with Vilkin. The two were known to not get along.

The last fight these two men had involved Vilkin cutting down trees on his own property and Upton being upset that his privacy would be lost at his current home where he rented.

Vilkin ended up shooting and killing Upton, got convicted of murder and faces 25 years to life for the murder.

So what really happened here?

When I watched the show, I do not question that Vilkin was bullied by Upton. There is no doubt in my mind he was bullied.

But I have a problem with Vilkin’s story. At first, Vilkin told us he was assaulted by Upton when he shot him in self-defense, but the second time he said he saw Upton coming at him with a gun, and shot and killed him. The gun Vilkin thought he saw Upton carrying ended up being a cell phone.

The two versions of Vilkin’s story are completely inconsistent.

So I do believe Vilkin was bullied and it probably was driving him mad, but I don’t believe that he had to shoot Upton as an act of self-defense.

Shanesha Taylor Leaves Kids in Hot Car

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Shanesha Taylor claims desperation as the reason she left her kids in the car in Arizona when she went into a job interview. She left two very young children, 2-years and 6 months, in their car seats with the windows cracked only an inch with the keys in the ignition. When the children were rescued, it was already 100 degrees inside the car.

This week prosecutors dropped felony charges, if she attended programs for parenting and substance abuse.

I am troubled by Shanesha’s responses in this interview. The way Shanesha talks about the babysitter and the reason she didn’t have one is hot for me. You can clearly see her speech patterns change, and what I call “thinking-on-her-feet behavior”. She doesn’t appear to be recollecting what actually happened. This is a huge red flag.

I seriously question if she ever had a babysitter.

When Matt Lauer asks Shanesha, “Despite the circumstances, did you act reasonably and responsibly?”

Listen to Shanesha’s response.

She says “That’s a difficult question”.

What??

I can understand she may have made a bad decisions because of stress, but I don’t understand not owning up to it now–especially considering she is getting a second chance!

She doesn’t yet own what she did was dangerous, and furthermore her answer shows no emotional compassion (regret/remorse) that she nearly killed her kids with her poor decision making at a supposed time of “crisis”.

With this response, I am worried for Shanesha’s children. People only make changes when they are willing to own up to their shortcomings and claim the errors that they made. No one is perfect, but given a second chance if she cannot clearly see what she did was the wrong choice, she has a high propensity to make the same decision again, and this next time could cost her children’s lives.

I am also sad that so many people stood up to help her when she shows no remorse or compassion for her children, the danger she put them in, and for her bad judgements.