Hi there,
new poster here. Saw the video on the Daily Mail/Mail Online and thought I'd do some google enquiries and I came across you lot. You all seem a lovely bunch, I've only read link #6, and the media link, so please forgive my ignorance of anything discussed earlier and be gentle with me
And I'm from the UK, so there may be some times when words/phrases may be slightly different.
On the video from behind I think it shows the closest window is a non-opener. Despite what I have read in earlier quotes/posts about CW falling "from the only open window in the wall of glass" I think recent video from behind shows the window to the right has been slid to open and he should have seen that as he approached. Anyway, he approaches the non-opener section and then moves to the left to the open section where that window has been slid over the non-opener, so a double layer of tint. After leaning over the rail, he then lifts and moves CW to his left.
video is the second one in this article
Video: grandfather dangled toddler out of Royal Caribbean window for THIRTY SECONDS | Daily Mail Online
Current defence is "he thought there was glass in the window" ... . BS. There's just no way anyone with an iota of awareness would fail to register all the many clues, visual and otherwise. And I don't think he could have hidden, in day to day life, the amount of visual impairment that would have required. There's also a picture of him walking without glasses.
The photo in post #1124 from "
@they'll get you" of the lifeguard casually opening the window using the handle, standing upright and with a bent arm, seems to me the best demonstration of "you couldn't fail to notice when you leaned over the railing", as he did for 8 seconds before lifting CW, and 34 seconds afterwards.
To me, all roads lead to SA and his mental state ....
1) "Drunk/Otherwise Intoxicated" - MW claims he "wasn't a drinker" and hadn't used his "drinks card". Maybe, maybe not, could have drunk his own stash before he "looked after" CW. Can't say the video shows this one way or the other, but a risky defence when presumably he was interviewed by LE soon after. Although by refusing a breath/toxicology test there's no longer any proof, just opinion of those whose spoke to him.
2) "Lights on, nobody home". I hope this expression translates for non-UK readers
Surely the family would already know this though and would not leave him in sole charge?
3) "Narcissism/Depraved indifference" - just not really giving a ****. Observes behaviours expected of people, and can and does replicate them, however there's a different thought process going on behind the appearance. And one day his real thoughts/impulses won over for reasons unfathomable to the rest of us. But again, could you know someone for 12 yrs and not see something of this, enough to mistrust surely?
4) "Murder" - Extension of above.
I'm thinking number 3 at present, both through my thought process above, and instinctively ... he seems evasive, perhaps there's some deviant cunning behind the cuddly (s)GF fascade.
But I have read comments about him changing his story, and would be interested in reading further. I thought he had done just one interview, with CBS, so I guess there is some previous reporting of his story. In particular is it independently reported what his first words were after dropping CW? I have been through Oviedo's excellent media thread, although not every link in there, and see PRLE quotes about "playing games", "lost his balance" and "lost his grip", and also 48hrs after the incident we have MWs "banging on the glass" statement. The quotes of course are not necessarily exactly what SA said and could be a little loose, and don't necessarily contradict the glass thing. Anything from MW cannot be taken at face value.
Anyone got any links to anything more concrete? Or provide me with a few clue words for me to search on the other threads?
Everything JMO of course.
EDIT - just for clarity I'm putting extreme stupidity in 2), and extreme recklessness in 3).