When I watch this video of Diena Thompson, Diena’s behavior is instantly sending off alarms in my head. The entire video makes me cringe, personally. Diena is trying to act all sad and distressed, but none of it feels genuine to me.

Read moreDiena says, “I did her hair in the morning, uh, I put it up in a ponytail (gasp).”

Notice how Diena shrugs her shoulder? It’s indicative of doubt. Also, her sobbing is unnatural to me. When people truly cry, they only gasp for air because they are crying so hard they can’t breath, but Diena makes these little “cry gasps” all the time, yet she isn’t crying hard enough to be winded. She isn’t even crying tears, so why is she making these noises? Her cheeks are dry. That’s three red flags in ten to twenty seconds of Diena speaking.

Next, Diena continues in her abnormally high-pitched tone, “I can’t even remember if I told her I loved her.” Her voice tone and inflection here, and in the first half of this video, are indicative of a whine rather than a genuine cry in my opinion. I also would expected to see fear or stress in Diena’s eyebrows and forehead as well. I do not.

Notice that Diena continually gasps as she talks–like children do when they cry so hard they can’t breath. Why is Diena doing this? We don’t make noises without a reason. This makes her lack of tears all the more curious. People can absolutely cry out all their tears, but she shows no indications of a serious hard cry, which would be redness and notably puffiness.

Diena continues, “I went to work and told them to have a good day. She wasn’t feeling well and I just told her to try to go to school, and if you need me, call me.” Diena’s behavior is very similar to that of William Walsh when he was interviewed about his missing wife. Take a look. It’s eerie.

Did you see Diena wiping away non-existent tears with her handkerchief? Why on earth would anyone do this? It makes no sense whatsoever. It’s a huge red flag for me. If you don’t have tears, you don’t wipe your eyes. I’ve actually never seen this one before!

When someone from off camera says to Diena, “Describe what she was wearing again” Diena’s voice pitch changes dramatically and so does her demeanor. All of the sudden all of her crying and “sadness” dissipate. When people truly cry, their demeanor doesn’t change this quickly. Their emotions and feeling remain, even though they may dissipate slightly upon focus, but Diena does a notable 180 here. I cringe when I see it.

Diena says, “It was a cranberry colored jumpsuit with a matching top to the bottom, up the sides of the legs and up the sides of the arm is a pink silky strip and then she had a black shirt on underneath, she had rainbow-colored tennis shoes, and she had gray and blue-striped ankle socks on, and her hair bow was red.”

I would think for Diena or any mother to recall the details of what her precious daughter was last wearing, detail-by-detail, would be extremely painful, yet Diena oddly shows no emotions. She is completely disconnected where I would expect a connection the most! Then once Diena finishes, she tones down her voice again. Did she remember she needed to be “sad” again?

Notice Diena never gasped for air either during her daughter’s clothing description? If she was truly winded, I wouldn’t think it would dissipate that quickly, would you?

While I don’t know what Diena is hiding, my opinion is that I do not believe she is being honest with us about how she is feeling here, which is very notable for me. I have also seen Diena smirk several times in other videos, which is notable cause for concern as well.

And with Diena’s thank you to the community, I do find it odd that Diena is so thankful before the killer is found. It’s almost as if she feels closure now that the funeral is behind her. Usually, until a killer is found, most victims don’t feel peace. I was also taken by how much this thank you revolved around Diena and not Somer. There is nothing about how Somer would have liked or loved any part of it. It was all about Diena.

There are way too many red flags for my comfort in a video clip less than a minute long.

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