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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To view my original opinion of Cutts last June, click here.
To view all my posts on Cutts, click on the label Davis/Cutts below.
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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To read my original opinion of Bobby Cutts, click here.
To read all my posts on Bobby Cutts, click on the Davis/Cutts label below.
I think one of the biggest questions people have when I review someone who is potentially lying is how do I determine what is “normal” behavior?
Let’s face it, people react differently to different scenarios. This is absolutely true.
When faced with the loss of a loved one, for example, some people will sob uncontrollably. Others will be stoic and in shock—perhaps unable to grasp their loss—and yet other people might reflect in the sadness of their loss by talking lovingly about memories. And some will likely retreat and not want to discuss it. Another might be mad, especially if the loss was due to an accident or a crime. And still others may take charge and get down to business to solve the problem—working feverishly to get to the root if crime or foul play was involved, all the while without showing a lot of emotions.
All responses are completely normal.
So then, how can you be sure that when someone laughs or grins that the behavior is inappropriate? They could just be nervous, couldn’t they?
If someone has the finger pointed at them and they are being looked at as a suspect, couldn’t they be completely distraught because of that, and unable to speak about anything else?
Well, it depends. The most important question is: Is his or her behavior consistent across the board?
When people are faced with a situation, it is important to look at the big picture and then correlate all the pieces together. You know the rules that govern completing a puzzle—well, they apply equally to figuring out the puzzles of life, too. Look at people’s behavior, words, and actions: They are pieces of the puzzle. Do they all add up to the same picture? Are they consistent?
Often, in life as in the game, you may be working on a section and think you have the right piece of the puzzle, only to find you don’t, and it needs to be abandoned for the time being. What do you do next? You search for the piece that makes sense.
Life, like a puzzle, is exactly the same.
For example, if someone laughs and appears nervous, they could absolutely be nervous, but are they acting that way consistently? Are they giving off other signs of being nervous? Or do they only appear nervous one moment, and not another? Nerves don’t dissipate that quickly.
If they only appear nervous for a moment, something is fishy—something doesn’t fit. You have the wrong piece of the puzzle in your hand; armed with that knowledge, you have to ask yourself what would fit? What behaviors would be consistent? What piece of the puzzle makes sense when you look at the big picture again?
With Bobby Cutts, he had people looking at him closely, and while they didn’t call him a suspect, they were treating him as one. He was distraught. It’s completely plausible that someone in his shoes would act this way. But if you were that distraught over being looked at as a suspect unfairly, what would you do? Wouldn’t you declare your innocence for everyone to see? Wouldn’t you tell the world how and why you feel violated if you were that distraught over it?
What is normal behavior in a situation where you are wrongly accused? There is really only one behavior, universal to all people: defense of the truth—or at least legal representation advising you, or speaking on your behalf. While defense of the truth may have different manifestations, we will see it in one form or another if we accuse an innocent person.
With Cutts, we didn’t see it. Instead, we saw him hinting about it, or beating around the bush — but not speaking directly about it. This is inconsistent behavior.
If I accuse you, right now, of stealing $500 dollars, and you didn’t do it, what would you do? You’d defend yourself in any way that you knew how because you would feel violated. You wouldn’t beat around the bush, and hint at your innocence, would you? Absolutely not.
So while normal varies from person to person, one thing is true about all people: When we behave a certain way—when we are honest, our behavior, our actions and our words are consistent across the board. When we lie, however, inconsistencies glare up to the surface, begging us to ask why.
This post is a continuation/expansion on this post which was written before Bobby Cutts, Jr. was arrested.
What are some of the other clues that hinted to me that Cutts wasn’t being honest?
For a comparison — right after that when Cutts was asked if he had an attorney –Cutts puts confidence behind his statement when he says the word “yes”. There is more behind that word then when he said “no”. Yet the more serious question was by far the first one where the stakes were exceptionally high. We should have heard a strong enunciative response. We didn’t and that difference clued me in, and raised my eyebrows.
“The past five …five days.. have been a like nightmare that that …won’t end, like…every…every second of it , I mean when it seems like it’s turning… and gonna change… it goes back to same, or it gets worse … its different…the way I’ve been…. betrayed and just, I mean I haven’t been myself. I…I can’t sleep. I can’t eat. Anybody that knows me knows me that if I’m normal joking around and laughing…trying to have fun and make everyone else laugh and…it’s juss….just been hell.”
If I plugged into the equation the what-if-he-did-this-scenario — it all seemed to add up. He was upset that he was being looked at as a suspect — and the stress of being looked at as a suspect was overwhelming him. When the police looked at him closely and then retreated again — it was a living hell for him. He was falling apart wondering if and when the dam was going to break — and the uncertainty of it all was driving him insane. It would make sense why he couldn’t eat or sleep — and why Jessie wasn’t the focus of his thoughts. Cutts was breaking under the pressure and this fit with his behavior and words — and actions — to a tee. Every other scenario I plugged in had inconsistencies.
Furthermore, Cutts backed it up again when he answered Todd Porter’s question if he had a fourth child on the way with Jessie. Cutts said “Possibly, yes”. Again, for an innocent person — the words “possibly” would NEVER enter into their mind. They would be hanging on to every shred of hope they could muster. But when someone has something to do with harming someone, they often “distance” themselves from things.
To come to these conclusions, it’s important I share with you that I am constantly doing a balancing act between what is said, how a person is behaving, feeling and acting. Alone a piece of information may be potentially logical — but in a puzzle, a square piece will never fit in a round hole.
This evening I had a lovely dinner with my family. We grilled and hickory-smoked some beautiful strip and rib-eye steaks. I must say dinner was divine. But sadly, after my family left and I turned on the news, I was saddened to see that it appears Jessie Davis’ body and her unborn child were found.
I certainly was not surprised by this news as I wrote my eyebrows were raised when I listened to Cutts speak with The Canton Rep on Thursday, June 21st.
Check back soon because I will reveal more clues that gave me pause last Wednesday night when I first heard the audio of Cutts. There were several more clues that queued me in that things weren’t as they appeared. I will share them with you. One of those clues was tone of voice.
