10ofRods
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ITA as soon as I read that comment I thought - control is very important to the husband -IMO
And I had the same thought while watching and rewatching his youtube video. I've already mentioned all the details that say 'controlling director' of the short video.
Since then, in his next video appearance, I've noted his apparent tendency toward hyperbole/mistakes with details such as numbers. He has a lot of unfinished sentences and unintelligible words in the TD "interview." This works only with him in control of a situation, it would not work if he was speaking to a jury or to LE or to an actual reporter. He needs the listener to stay passive, not be intrusive, not make assumptions, ignore the leaps in meaning.
He is said to be somewhat introverted, so I think he trails off or restarts sentences with entirely new premises because he is thinking very carefully about what he wants to say (controlling the narrative).
He falters the most when he can't work out how to continue speaking without the narrative going somewhere he doesn't want it to go. He seems nervous, as well (and many would be, under the circumstances; others would be glad of an attempt to get someone to help find Suzanne).
And what he says, so far, never goes to "Please help me find Suzanne, she was last seen at X time, they found her blue bike, we don't know what happened to her, etc. etc" If he thinks it was a mountain lion, then he should also appeal to all the backwoodsmen/women and hunters, because they might pick up some clues (especially if we knew what shoes Suzanne was wearing - or what helmet, because mountain lions do not eat helmets).
I think it takes super self-control for the distraught husband of a woman who vanished 3 weeks ago to not stray into territory that he's previously decided is off-limits. I would say only a small fraction of people can speak for as long as he did and keep themselves away from certain topics.