A reporter interviewed the detained person’s MIL in this video:
Kind of wish for her sake that she would just be quiet and not do interviews with reporters. In the tail end of this interview, she said that her SIL has a van he uses for work.
Interesting.
He was released.
ugh - i was hoping (nothing against him) that this could be solved. I wonder what led them to him.
The interview with the MIL had me feeling for them - breaking down the door when they didn’t have to, saying they don’t have to have a warrant but not telling her why they are breaking in her home, taking all their communication devices and leaving her with no way to contact anyone. She said the news people showed her photos from the Gutrhie entryway and she said no way does that look like her SIL. I’m curious how they go charging in with what evidence - someone somewhere said it looked like that guy? Could be more but doubt they would release him immediately if there was more.
Makes me think they’re chasing their tails.
She was very convincing. I was up late and saw that interview and immediately thought they got the wrong guy. Between their experience with the police and being identified and convicted on FB- what a mess.
I didn’t immediately think it was the wrong guy, certainly not based on the woman’s interview. So many people are in denial that of course they are going to say that’s not my SIL, and she doesn’t know every piece of his clothing or whether he snuck out in the middle of the night. I did feel sorry for her and wished she would quit talking.
Why would she quit talking? She came home to her home being invaded and destroyed and her phone being confiscated. I’d protect my family too. You want to tell someone to be quiet? Maybe the vulture reporters.
Because anything she says could be used against her SIL. I’m a former reporter/editor. I’d never talk to a reporter in the heat of the moment.
There may or may not be good reason for these actions. But the cynic in me makes me think that the FBI wants to show progress, grasping at straws.
That’s easy to say. When you’re emotional or in shock and someone comes asking questions, you’re not always thinking straight.
There is a certain pattern here to recent high profile cases…
I was just answering the question posed.
I thought she was convincing when she saw the photo of the suspect and said that, no, those weren’t his eyebrows. Since she gave his name it was easy to look at a photo of him and believe her. Also, you would have to be gone for more than just a few hours in the middle of the night to pull off a kidnapping a 3 hour round trip from your home. I thought she was very convincing when she said that he was always around on the weekends for the kids and that he was home all that weekend and nothing out of the ordinary happened. Then she said yes, he had a van but it had been broken down for awhile..and that too was believable.
I know many family members enough to know if they were capable of something like that AND if they are acting weird or operating in some way outside their routine. She just seemed so confident that was not the case here.
But mostly it was her confidence that the photo was not his eyes or his brows. A mom would know.
She definitely should not have given his name though. That’s how I was instantly able to look at a photo of him and also how the keyboard warriors were able to start their usual level of chaos.
I thought that she was convinced/convincing, too. But here’s where I have a problem. She volunteered all kinds of info. She said she didn’t know who Nancy Guthrie was, said she scrolled on past whenever her name came up on social media. All the police have to do is find a time that she clicked on a post, on purpose or by accident, to impeach her credibility when she said all the other things – he doesn’t have those clothes, he’s always home on the weekends, etc.
Y’all feel free to talk to the media if you want. I’m saying that I wouldn’t and have advised my kids not to either.
She sounded like she was in shock over everything that was happening. I can’t imagine how I would feel or act if what was happening to her was happening to me. I have certainly never considered how I would react if something similar happened to my family, and I would not have any frame of reference for what I should say or do under similar circumstances. I would probably hide, but everyone handles stress differently. I’m guessing it was important to her that the world knows she thinks he is innocent.
totally agree. Reporters don’t have your best interest at heart. They’re interested in getting the hot story on the top of the evening news broadcast.
100%. I have actually been in the situation of having a reporter ask questions while in shock over an incident. Sure in a normal frame of mind I know that I’m “supposed” to not answer, but when your brain is trying to cope with something else it may not reach your consciousness that you should shut up when someone asks a question. Totally agree with whoever called this kind of reporter a vulture.
CBS Evening News is reporting a black glove, like the one in the video, was found 1.5 miles from the crime scene. 4k calls have come in to the tip line in the last 24 hours.
This is a great way for criminals to get bitcoin payments… by providing a “tip” by someone involved in the crime. Get the funny money and convert into real money before all can be traced.