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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would just like to weigh in with some thoughts about the many comments here which discuss Scott's demeanor and behavior after his wife went missing.

It is common practice in the true crime documentaries to discuss the reactions of certain loved ones and how those reactions are 'all wrong' for a non guilty, grieving person.

That is total BS.

Never mind that there are hundreds of cases of exonerations where the 'shady behaving' defendant turned out to be, OH ACTUALLY INNOCENT!

As a former victim advocate, defense attorney and prosecutor who has been around violent crime victims for decades and seen an entire range of behaviors from ACTUALLY INNOCENT VICTIMS OF CRIME, it makes me really sick to see both lay people and police make assumptions and declarations of guilt based on the behavior of a particular person following their experience of horrific loss.

Human beings react in a whole range of ways to being victim of violent crime or losing a loved one that way. We ALL know people, often in our own families, who don't express emotion the same way we do. We might wail and cry and keen and they might sit silent and stoic and show no emotion - that doesn't make them killers, or even psychologically disturbed. Shock expresses itself in human beings in a range of ways, all of which are normative to that individual.

They said Michael Morton was a murderous bastard who butchered his wife because she didn't give him sex on his birthday and who didn't appear properly upset when he learned of her murder. He spent decades in prison, separated from his son, based on circumstantial evidence most of which was the state - cops and prosecutors - spinning a story about his character based on such ridiculous conclusions. He was ACTUALLY INNOCENT, as the evidence proved after the prosecutors fought for decades to keep it being tested.

Trauma presents in all kinds of ways. Please stop judging how much people emote in response to a traumatic event.[/quote]

If my wife is murdered, I am not planning to flee to Mexico. In fact, I would call that somewhat atypical.[/quote]

But you might call your GF from the vigil for your wife and child to tell her you are in Paris and having a blast. Totally normal and innocent. [/quote]

+1 and you also might tell your GF your wife had died, ahead of her murder.[/quote]

There is no way to misinterpret his behavior. This is far from “everyone grieves differently” nonsense. This is straight up sociopathy.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

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