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Breaking News: Brad Cooper Indicted

Brad Cooper was indicted by a grand jury today on 1st degree murder.

That’s no surprise to me. Read what I wrote about Brad Cooper here exactly two weeks ago today.

Robert Murat: What are you thinking?

A reader asked me my opinion on Robert Murat last week, and kindly provided me with some very good video links.

I was always curious about Robert Murat because I never saw him speak, but he spoke publicly in late July. Here is his interview. You can watch him on video, or read the transcript which I also provide (below).

Did you know that Murat has been cleared of his suspect “arguido” status like the Kate and Gerry McCann?

Watch Robert Murat Speak Here
Murat wants arquido explanation
BBC News

Murat:
I would like to know … ah… why… um… uh… I was made an arguido…ah..because ah, sincerely, I don’t understand I… why I was made an arguido. Um…yeah, I would like to find out. I would like to find out.

Reporter:
Would there be satisfaction or anger… (inaudible…if you understand this please send me the text).

Murat:
Well, I can’t really answer that because, ah, they may have, …they may have had, um…………they may have felt, should I say, that…that there was a reason to do it, and if there’s a justifiable reason to make me an arguido, um, then… I have to look at it and be sensible about it. Um, it doesn’t help in anyway shape or form, me, um, here, 14 months down the line, ah, still an arguido, but that is the law of Portugal. Now this happened in Portugal and as much as we do not like how the legal system works in Portugal, this is their legal system and they are doing their job.

Read moreThis interview is a real hair-raiser for me. The day I saw it, I had to get up and walk away. It really bothered me.

Five days before the date of the above video (and transcript), Murat won a lawsuit against the press for libel, and spoke out. He said “The newspapers in this case brought about the total and utter destruction of mine and my families life, and caused immense distress. Notice how he reads from a script?

This makes absolute sense if Murat is a victim here, and was unjustly looked at for a crime he didn’t commit.

Fast forward five days (in this video), Murat confirms he is still being looked at as an “arguido” though news was already circulating that he would likely be cleared in the near future. With that, Murat tells us he wants to know why he was made an arguido.

Naturally, we should expect the same response in this video as when Murat talked about the libel suit. After all, if the police inaccurately labeled him an arguido, this is what caused the media frenzy, and ultimately what would have caused the destruction of Murat’s life, and where his deepest wounds and anger would reside.

With that, we should see a man who is feeling violated, misunderstood and unjustly treated. Is this what we see when we watch Murat speak here?

Absolutely not.

What we see, instead, is a man who is enjoying the spotlight. You’d think in this interview that Murat was sitting down for an afternoon tea, and not a serious conversation about how his life was ruined. He is enjoying speculating and bantering about this whole scenario as if it had no implications for him, yet he readily acknowledges he is still a suspect. Look at how he smirks and grins.

More importantly, we don’t see any distress, or feelings of violation. We don’t see anger for all the pain he has supposedly had to endure. We don’t see a hint that this is a man who was wrongly looked at, put under the microscope, called a suspect and had his life destroyed as he says himself.

I am flabbergasted to say the least. His behavior is a complete contradiction to the circumstances that he wants us to believe here. It is totally different than the script he read out to the media after he won his libel suit, but it shouldn’t be.

It’s one thing not to be bothered by the entire frenzy and to ignore it because he knows he is innocent, and that the police couldn’t possibly have anything on him. It’s quite another to tell us it devastated his life and to go after the press, but to then turn around and act like it was no big deal, and entertain that if the Portuguese police had reason to call him a suspect that they are just “doing their job” and that he should be “sensible” about it, is absurd.

It’s flat out pompous.

If the police inaccurately labeled you a suspect, would you ever entertain such nonsense?

I can’t believe I am even seeing this arrogance.

Is that how you would feel if you have been wrongly looked at as a suspect for an entire year? After the police searched your house multiple times? After your life was supposedly ruined, and the media trashed your name around the world?

If shoddy detective work destroyed your life, was inaccurate or faulty, I can be 100% confident in saying that you’d never go there. It defies logic. It’s like asking the devil to take a closer look at you and beat you, unjustifiably, just one more time.

What injured man does this? Is Murat really a victim here?

Look at this sentence:

I can’t really answer that because, ah, they may have, …they may have had, um…………they may have felt, should I say, that…that there was a reason to do it…

When you watch Murat speak here, he is talking naturally up until he says the words “they may have…” At that point, something stops him. You can clearly see his thought process stop and hesitate, and then he switch gears.

Was Murat actually thinking the police may have had reason or evidence to call him a suspect? Is he curious because he wants to know what they have, knowing they haven’t had enough to charge him in 14 months?

If there is one person on this earth who should never have doubts about Murat’s innocence, it should be Robert Murat himself. Instead he is playing the “What if game…” with us.begging us to look at him closer.

It gives me the chills, that’s for sure.

It’s a cockiness at a level that I don’t recall seeing before. It’s downright arrogant and flippant, like someone who thinks they are smarter than everyone.

Has Murat outsmarted the system? It sure makes you wonder…

McCann’s Officially Cleared of ‘Arguido’ Status

Yes!!

This is welcome news.

I have always stood steadfast in my belief that the McCanns were telling the truth. To read all I have written on the case, click on the labels below.

Dave Hawk Charged with Murder

It’s been two years on June 13, 2006 since Dave Hawk’s wife, Debbie, disappeared, and has never been seen again. This past Thursday, however, Dave was arrested and charged with her murder. Dave’s plea? Not guilty.

Dave was on Dateline NBC last May, and the man I saw was arrogant, manipulative and controlling yet in an odd twist he left his under age children at their mother’s house when mom wasn’t there after a weekend with the children.

Dave’s story just doesn’t add up. Read why I believe that here in my post from May 2007.

Christine Francisco

Back on February 13th, Christine Francisco waited for her husband to come home from work to make Valentine’s Day cookies with their children, but Christine’s husband, Nicholas, never came home.

It has now been several months since Nicholas just walked out of work never to be seen again, but there are still no leads for police to follow. While his car was found in a condo parking lot that has no previous known connection for the Franciscos, there was also no sign of foul play discovered by police.

Christine, however, has maintained from the beginning that something sinister had to have happened to Nicholas because he was not the type of guy to just walk out of their lives. She says he was not a coward.

Read moreI watched several videos of Christine talk about Nicholas’ disappearance, and I find Christine’s behavior peculiar.

The first video where Christine spoke to the news is dated February 16, 2008. In this video, Christine appears to be crying, yet I do not see any tears. She says:

“I am begging everybody, everybody to please, please help find my husband because I can’t live my life without him.”

The first notable thing I see is a lack of tears falling from Christine’s eyes, yet Christine acts like she is crying, and even wipes her face as if there were tears.

The second notable point for me here is Christine’s tone-of-voice. It doesn’t sound distressed, upset, or concerned. Instead, it sounds whiny–like she is complaining. It also sounds notably different that in her video interviews with Nancy Grace and Greta Van Susteren. Usually when people are distraught and upset, they sound consistent.

I also found it odd how she says the following:

“If you can’t find him, these kids don’t have a daddy, then this unborn baby won’t have a daddy.”

Notice she says if you can’t find him. Where is her connection to the search? I find the word you an odd word choice. Most people would say if we can’t find him. “We” have to find him.

The second video I looked at was Christine talking to Greta Van Susteren.

Greta says, “Did you get the sense that anything unusual was going on in his life?” Listen to Christine’s response. She holds back laughter when she replies, “Not at all.” When she continues, notice how normal she acts, like she is talking about a PTA meeting or something. “He sounded so excited to come home, and he was ready to go with the cookies.”

As she continues her conversation with Greta, she shows absolutely no emotion, and no concern.

Greta asks Christine if Nicholas was having any personal problems at work, and Christine holds back laughter again. She smirks, lets out a sigh and replies “Not that I’m aware of.”

Why does Christine feel the need to laugh? Is it nerves, or something more sinister?

Greta then questions Christine about financial problems. Watch Christine when she says “We are not in poverty…we’re just in the middle”. Watch how animated she is…she teeters her head from side-to-side to gesture when she says “in the middle”. This shows she is relaxed. There is no hint of sadness, or concern whatsoever. If you didn’t know what Christine was talking about here, you’d think she was just having a casual conversation about gardening or something.

When people are worried or concerned, they are usually subdued in their reactions, and are less likely to gesture like this–especially about unimportant things like financial status when someone could be in danger. That’s because their one and only focus is to bring back their loved one.

Greta then questions Christine about when she first got suspicious something wasn’t right. Christine says she was concerned when Nicholas wasn’t home to make cookies–about eight o’clock which is the children’s bedtime, but she figured she was just overreacting and ignored it. I thought that was a little strange.

If Nicholas was going to make cookies with the children, wouldn’t she be expecting him earlier than the children’s bedtime? By bedtime, wouldn’t you feel justifiably alarmed?

When Christine talks about Nicholas not being home by 10 pm, she also says she was “absolutely petrified”, yet when she recollects this, she strangely shows no emotion again.

When people recollect a terrifying time, they display the fear of that moment on their faces, if only for a second. Our emotions are closely tied to our memories. Yet for Christine, this doesn’t seem to be true. She just chats as if nothing were wrong. It’s very strange.

Christine smiles again when she says it was very peculiar for him to be at the condominium complex. Why does she smile like this over and over again? Her emotions aren’t adding up with a woman who is fearful her husband is in trouble. Where is the fear??

When Greta says “What do you think happened to him? Where do you think he is?”, watch Christine. First she grins. Then she looks up before speaking which is an indication that she is thinking, not talking from her heart about how she feels. Then she speaks about herself in third person which is odd.

Instead of saying “My intuition tells me…” She says “Ummm…ah…a wife’s intuition, it’s foul play.” This is weird. It’s another red flag. Why the sudden change of tense? It’s as if she is repeating what she has heard someone else say before. It sure makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

When most people face a crisis, normal behavior is for them to hold on to every shred of hope that the worst case scenario didn’t happen. They don’t want to believe that something horrible is wrong. Instead, they cling to “safe potentials” because it is comforting, but Christine does not. She doesn’t plea to her husband to come home, or worry that perhaps that something else happened. She just accepts foul play without question–which is unusual.

Look at her lack of emotions as well. Here she is telling us she thinks her husband was potentially harmed, or coerced into leaving, and yet she doesn’t seem to show any concern whatsoever when she first talks about it. Then in the middle of it, she expresses some emotion, but it dissipates quickly.

Greta then asks if there were any peculiar phone calls to the house to which Christine replies as calm and collected as one can be “No, not at all.”

Christine’s emotions almost turn on and off like a faucet, don’t they?

And last, on one of Christine Francisco’s profiles at JPG Magazine, Christine Francisco is listing herself as single!

You read that right. Single.

It’s not even four months since this happened, and she is content listing herself as single? I can’t imagine the courts have declared her husband dead without a body. What is Christine thinking?

If that doesn’t turn your head, I don’t know what will. It’s like she is resigned to the fact he is gone forever. Hmmm….

I’m wondering what Christine knows that we don’t.

FindNicolasFrancisco.com

* Thanks to Cheri’s Corner forum for sharing the many video links.