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Adam Saleh Found Guilty

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Case Overview:
Adam Saleh was accused and later charged with murdering an aspiring young model, Julie Popovich. Popovich disappeared from a college campus night club and was found three weeks later in a farmer’s field near Hoover Reservoir in Ohio.
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Marie K. wrote the following | 05.02.07 – 7:08 pm |:
You got another one. Adam Saleh was found guilty today on all counts but the most serious aggravated murder charge. He’s getting 38 to life in prison. While there wasn’t any physical evidence to link him to the crime, he made efforts to establish a false alibi, which, when discovered, convinced the jury of his guilt. I no longer disbelieve that lies can be discovered through body language.

Thanks for your comment, Marie. I didn’t know the verdict came in! I have been watching what little snippets I could find about this trial online because I’ve been getting comments this week, and I knew the jury was in deliberation, but I didn’t know a verdict had arrived.

Back in early February of 2006, another reader of mine asked for my opinion on this story. There was a good video of Saleh online. Saleh talked to a news reporter because he was detained for another charge that was subsequently dropped. Saleh talked on and on and on, and acted like he was a at a tea party instead of being questioned about a murder. It was clear he liked attention. It was also clear he was very intelligent. I gave my opinion and wrote about it here.

I had no knowledge about any of the facts in this case because at that time, Saleh was not charged with anything. Then slowly over time, Saleh was arrested and some facts came out. I wrote an update on it last summer. It didn’t look good for Saleh, but I like all of you, I watched eagerly at the edge of my chair wonder what the facts would ultimately support.

Would they support an honest person or would they support a liar? I believed Saleh’s actions, behavior, and expressions supported that he was lying, and I think the facts that came out in court clearly showed for everyone that Saleh was in fact lying.

Justice was thankfully served today for the Popovich family.

I called another person accurately as Marie says above by spotting deception before any facts were known. I will add Adam Saleh’s name on my list. That makes my total accurate calls NINE right to ZERO wrong (or 11 to zero if you count all three in the Duke University rape case).

Do know that I don’t add people in court cases unless I believe a reasonable person can clearly see the truth in a trial. Given the fact that Saleh, in the end, asked an undercover cop to give him an alibi — I think that speaks for itself. (With the Mary Winkler case, while I still don’t believe her, not everyone sees it so hence she is not on my list).

Here is an article on Saleh’s conviction.

Adam Saleh and Julie Popovich UPDATE

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There is new information coming out about the Adam Saleh and Julie Popovich case (which I first wrote about here on Feb. 10, 2006). It came out in the past two weeks.

According to the article — Adam Saleh’s cell phone rang twice the night Julie Popovich was murdered. The first time, the tower that picked up Saleh’s phone call was “…a cell phone tower at Hoover Reservoir, where Popovich’s body was found.”

Furthermore, there is documentation that inmates are talking about what Saleh has said.

If you see more information about this case — keep me posted.

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Did you know it will be two years this October that I have been blogging about what I see and what I believe — and no one has come and proven me wrong on one case yet??

Granted, I expect to be proven wrong — out of all the calls I make. After all, I’m human and not a machine. But get this: If I am 80% accurate, that’s 5-10% more accurate than a lie detecting machine on average. Go figure!

Adam Saleh and Julie Popovich

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SALEH TALKS
Click to watch the story

A reader asked me for an opinion on this story. I am not familiar with it. However, I did watch the video of the suspect talking (see link above). Here is my opinion:

Adam Saleh says the right things, does the right things (outside of talking TOO MUCH) yet oddly his expressions are NOT in alignment with his actions.

Throughout this interview, he keeps smiling, smirking and flashing expressions of glee.

With that, I have to ask myself WHY is this guy happy? He appears genuinely happy, as if he were having tea with friends talking about a joyful event in his life — not the murder of a missing woman where **he has been named a suspect!**

Other times, he tries to act like he cares about the murdered woman (talking about her funeral after saying he didn’t know her) or people in general — yet he doesn’t show a flicker of TRUE emotion to back it up. He is a classic “neutral” person.

If someone is innocent and the finger is being pointed at them — they get worried, afraid, and stressed. Adam was only stressed at the beginning of the interview when the cameraman set up. After he got rolling, all his stress dissipated.

**Why isn’t Adam worried, afraid or stressed?**

That is the big question and a biggest tip-off that something isn’t right here. It’s the biggest red flag!

Adam also says he is shy yet in the video he is very outgoing –possessing all the social skills to be convincing. I think Adam is “selective” in his socializing, but he is NOT SHY though he wants YOU to believe he is shy.

Adam strikes me as someone who believes he is super intelligent and that may in fact be part of his downfall. Does he believe he could commit the perfect murder? He is very calculating at what he says and how he says it — almost so he doesn’t have to tell a lie when answering certain questions. He avoids lying by saying it just the “right way”.

There are other things that add up to a bigger picture as well. While each of these things I’ve listed below are NOT indicators alone — when combined with his inconsistent attitude above and the group of clues below — my eyebrows are seriously raised:

1. Adam talks on and on – as if trying to convince his audience. It’s like he believes he can convince anyone.
2. He stutters,
3. he word-searches,
4. and speaks in odd sentence structures.
5. He also salivates a few times and swallows oddly

Do I trust this guy? My answer is no. I’d be afraid to be with him alone because he is “charming” yet without emotion.

Who would be happy standing in his shoes when they are innocent? Anyone??

Is he enjoying all this attention or what?