Brought over from previous thread by TxLady2
Respectfully.... have you ever related some incident to someone and then in recalling it again, added a little detail that you had forgotten the first time you told the story? I have... many times. It's not at all unusual for little details like that to come to you when you go over it in your mind for the 2nd or 3rd or the 12th time.
I am sure Billie has thought about that many times and asked herself over and over, whether she could be positive that it was Hailey in the bed. And when concentrating on what she remembered, it dawned on her at some point that the t.v. light was on.
I think it's a little unfair to expect someone to remember every tiny detail the exact same way every time they relate an incidence. And as a matter of fact, LE would pick up on that real quick. If the person gives the exact same accounting in their statement and never misses one tiny detail, then LE knows they memorized it, they're following a script. They expect people to add something here or there, or correct something they said earlier and realize was an error. That's just human nature. Whether the t.v. was on or off doesn't matter to LE... that's not going to find Hailey. What matters is if that was really Hailey in bed. Right now they can't prove that it wasn't... and Billie can't prove that it was.
JMO
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I understand and respect what you're saying.
I actually haven't put much weight into the changing of the minor details like whether DD left at 9 p.m. Sunday, or a little earlier - Billie seems uncertain, and I can see that being normal unless she watches the clock each moment. I also don't find it concerning that she changed from seeing Hailey in her room at 10 p.m. Sunday night to possibly around 11:00 p.m. Sunday night. For the reasons you mentioned, I find these reasonable changes in recollection with time and further thought... Likewise, it wouldn't bother me a bit to learn that she wasn't certain what she had for breakfast or whether she scrubbed the toilet...around the time that Hailey went missing.
But, my post was about Billie changing the details of the very last sighting of her missing daughter. Not the exact minute of when she saw her, but the very situation itself. To me, that is major and shouldn't change with time. I think it would be normal for Hailey's mom to have been thinking about that event from the minute she knew her daughter was gone (which was just a day and a half after seeing her in her room). If she really did peek into her room on 12/27 a.m., I don't think she'd forget whether it was dark, whether the tv was on, whether or not she definitely saw Hailey. She'd be thinking about that moment over and over and over staring on Tuesday 12/28, imo. She had 2 weeks to be replaying that moment before going on Nanch Grace (which did not edit or snip her live statement). For the story about that Monday morning "ease her mind" peek to change during her press conference on Monday makes me suspicious, where other minor inconsistencies do not. JMO.
