Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Back to the practicality and mechanics of suicide by rifle.
Leigh Egan says that a neighbor near the house on Edgemoor reports hearing gunshot around midnight. There was also a drive-by shooting around the same time. So that might cause uncertainty as to which shot was the drive-by and which shot was from the house.
JH discovered EG around 1.30 am. So unsure exactly when the shot happened.
Going to next guess and NG has brought up the three suicide notes. NG asks again why did JH come over. NG says we're waiting on the autopsy report. Now NG has gone to the question of prior reports of abuse on Lucas. NG introduces 'Lori'.
Lori says she believed 'someone/people' were looking the other way as regards abuse on Lucas.
NG plays tape snippet of JH talking on earlier NG show, snippet focused on the report by EG of Lucas going missing.
Back to the body language/statement analysis expert.
She thinks there's conflict in JH's words and she interprets that as JH did want to go search and was stopped by something/someone. She says JH seems passive and possibly making excuses for EG. Another guest chimes in about frustrations of partners of abusive parents keeping quiet/covering up being a problem. NG says she wants to defend JH on some of this, tells story about her own father having a job that kept him away from home a lot. And JH also has a job that takes him away from home for weeks at a time, and that seems to be the periods when the abuse occurred, not when he was home.
NG says the two women guests on last show were pointing fingers at JH as the one committing the longterm abuse of Lucas, NG says that's not what police reports show. (Edit. I'm not sure which reports NG was referring to? Maybe the CINC report?)
Over to Leigh Egan. Egan can't personally see how he could be ignorant of all that abuse. NG says she doesn't think JH was actually committing the abuse. Back to Egan who says sure he might not have been doing it but can't imagine how he could have been totally ignorant. Egan also mentioned LE being called to some DV reports between JH and EG.
NG talks about violence in homes with DV and how there's a risk of that not remaining between only the adults but also spreading to the child/ren in the home.
Back to Lori(?) her personal thoughts, she talks about the maybe dates (10th/11th) for Lucas' passing. She thinks JH and EG got into an argument and that's when JH left. She seems to be muddled about the date JH left, because she's saying she thinks JH was home when Lucas was killed and then left for NM. NG is questioning this. Lori says that her opinions are based a lot on his attitude that she's observed. She thinks there's a question over the date JH left for NM, she questions the assertion of "neighbor boy" who says he saw Lucas on the 11th, and she thinks JH was also there to assist in the disposal of the body.
NG turns to Leigh Egan and NG says she thinks Lori's theory can't fit with the evidential timeline. Leigh says there's one credible witness in seeing Lucas prior to 17th and that's the one whose children played with Lucas on 11th, but JH went back to work on the 9th. So from that Leigh doesn't think JH was there when it all happened.
