Yes, he comes across as having contempt for his wife.
Even though the little boy is just three (?), I think a skilled investigator who knows how to interview kids could find out a lot. Especially about the beach trip.I'll do my best here to make notes about what was said in "The Interview Room" video. Please let me know if something is incorrect, those who watched. Sometimes it's challenging to get all the details when they are all speaking at once, but there is so very much to learn from these gentlemen!
(The interview being discussed is the only one LM gave with the reporter.)
Lacks detail, no emotion, no sense of attachment, references the past, no specificity, no level of worry. However, when LM says things like "well, sometimes she'll stay out until 2:30 am, it shows that there is some sort of monitoring going on in the relationship. Relationship troubles.
Her victimology is low risk, meaning it's likely someone very close to her that has caused her disappearance (unless there was some activity that took her out of her low-risk lifestyle). We don't have enough info to know which of these Maya is right now.
The use of words like "embarrassing," "surreal," "mind-numbing," are red flags. Discussing May's drinking is victim-shaming. He builds himself up to be the "good guy," which always sends out alarm bells. "She needs space, I don't" is LM putting her disappearance on May's shoulders.
That he makes it a point to mention the argument at all is concerning and significant, and tells us it's possibly a triggering event for him. Triggering events are typically preceded by precipitating stressors.
LM is asked about the last time he saw May, and he starts discussing, in detail, issues they were having and the argument they had before she disappeared. He minimizes the argument by saying they "kinda" got into an argument. He's minimizing it because it was significant to him. All the problems they'd been having "for the last year" was the build up to that last night he saw her. "I give her space" tells us that it's ongoing, and that he was "giving her space" during this year they've been having problems. (He didn't say "I gave her space" the last time he saw her, he said he gives her space, so it's for a longer period of time). His brain is recalling the buildup of the last time he saw her.
The reporter says, "So you got into an argument, and the last time you saw her was in the house?" LM replies, "Yes, briefly." Briefly implies that it's possible whatever happened started in the house, but then possibly moved to a different location.
He becomes wordy, and uses descriptive words like physically, visually, rustling around, making dinner, to describe seeing her in the house on Friday, but he is trying to convince the listener that he saw her Friday. When you take that into context with him saying he "knows that the first 48-72 hours are the most important in a missing persons case" + him delaying her brother with the locked bedroom door + delaying the family coming over until Saturday, he is making sure that those first 48-72 hours is passing before the cops are called. It's no coincidence that she wasn't reported missing for 72 hours after the last day she was seen.
He didn't use her name one time in that interview.
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I'll do my best here to make notes about what was said in "The Interview Room" video. Please let me know if something is incorrect, those who watched. Sometimes it's challenging to get all the details when they are all speaking at once, but there is so very much to learn from these gentlemen!
(The interview being discussed is the only one LM gave with the reporter.)
Lacks detail, no emotion, no sense of attachment, references the past, no specificity, no level of worry. However, when LM says things like "well, sometimes she'll stay out until 2:30 am, it shows that there is some sort of monitoring going on in the relationship. Relationship troubles.
Her victimology is low risk, meaning it's likely someone very close to her that has caused her disappearance (unless there was some activity that took her out of her low-risk lifestyle). We don't have enough info to know which of these Maya is right now.
The use of words like "embarrassing," "surreal," "mind-numbing," are red flags. Discussing May's drinking is victim-shaming. He builds himself up to be the "good guy," which always sends out alarm bells. "She needs space, I don't" is LM putting her disappearance on May's shoulders.
That he makes it a point to mention the argument at all is concerning and significant, and tells us it's possibly a triggering event for him. Triggering events are typically preceded by precipitating stressors.
LM is asked about the last time he saw May, and he starts discussing, in detail, issues they were having and the argument they had before she disappeared. He minimizes the argument by saying they "kinda" got into an argument. He's minimizing it because it was significant to him. All the problems they'd been having "for the last year" was the build up to that last night he saw her. "I give her space" tells us that it's ongoing, and that he was "giving her space" during this year they've been having problems. (He didn't say "I gave her space" the last time he saw her, he said he gives her space, so it's for a longer period of time). His brain is recalling the buildup of the last time he saw her.
The reporter says, "So you got into an argument, and the last time you saw her was in the house?" LM replies, "Yes, briefly." Briefly implies that it's possible whatever happened started in the house, but then possibly moved to a different location.
He becomes wordy, and uses descriptive words like physically, visually, rustling around, making dinner, to describe seeing her in the house on Friday, but he is trying to convince the listener that he saw her Friday. When you take that into context with him saying he "knows that the first 48-72 hours are the most important in a missing persons case" + him delaying her brother with the locked bedroom door + delaying the family coming over until Saturday, he is making sure that those first 48-72 hours is passing before the cops are called. It's no coincidence that she wasn't reported missing for 72 hours after the last day she was seen.
He didn't use her name one time in that interview.
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Oh, I missed NCIS being involved. Is that “normal”? Maya is a civilian, right?
IIRC, she's some kind of defense contractor for the Navy and that's why NCIS is involved.
> About NCIS (navy.mil)
Interesting. He was active Air Force. Be nice if they went after this with a vengeance.
Thank You for transcribing that show. It was hard to catch everything being said. Yes, they confirmed NCIS is investigating as well.
He's slicker than people give him credit for, IMO. It seems he likes to portray himself as the victim in the marriage, but I get the feeling he might tell a lie or two now and then. Definitely MOO.
Wow, you're right that why would the phones of daughter(s) being going to voicemail that whole Friday? Those girls were home all day and unreachable by phone. Did LM turn off the children's phone(s) somehow? Or worse, did LM involve them in not talking to anyone that day with some story? I worry the daughters may feel a need to protect their Dad.
That's very worrisome. The children must be very confused and frightened. It sounded like Maya was very close to her children, and their well being should be evaluated by a professional IMO.
