VELEZ-MITCHELL: Prosecutors say Ross Harris wanted to live a child- free life based on Internet searches they`ve uncovered that he made, allegedly. In addition to researching how long it takes a child to die in a hot car, cops claim he was obsessed with websites showing all different sorts of ways to die. And just five days before he left his son to die in a hot car, he watched a video of a vet demonstrating how unbelievably hot it gets inside a parked car in the summer.
Take a look at this very video from YouTube.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
DR. ERNIE WARD, VETERINARIAN: I thought I would put myself in a parked car, and let`s see just how hot it gets. Come on.
A hundred and thirteen degrees. It`s awful. The only thought that`s going through my head right now is, I just -- I want out of the car. You know, it`s just -- everything in my body is saying, get out, get out, get out.
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Det . Stoddard named the vet and the video in court.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you actually find the video on there that he described to you?
STODDARD: I did.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Could you tell the judge in detail what this video depicts?
STODDARD: The video, and I believe it's - I might get the name wrong. It's like Ernie Ward (ph). And he is a veterinarian. And he's a very - he's an advocate for, of course, you know, animal care. And the veterinarian decides to do a demonstration about the dangers of leaving your animal in a car. So he goes out to a car, he sits in the car in the middle of the summer. It appears to be very hot outside. And he sits there for 30 minutes. And as he -- the video is about six minutes long. And through this video, he's showing you times and he's showing you temperature. The temperature in the car gets to over 117 degrees or around 117 degrees. And he starts to explain how horrible a feeling it is to be in this car. And he goes over it several times. He goes, this is horrible. He goes, imagine if you couldn't move. If I wasn't a thinking person, I could reason through this. That they are just trapped here in this car.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now, this video, was it something that you -- looking from your examination, that he viewed once?
STODDARD: No.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How many times did he view it?
STODDARD: He viewed it twice.
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Thank you so much! And I actually watched that but forgot it!!
I understand what you are saying. But how different is this from those Mothers who watch as their husbands and boyfriends beat their children to death. Next to the article will be a picture of a darling child, dressed up and smiling...one recently was next to her birthday cake.
They look loved.
But the Mothers value the men so much that they can see the pain inflicted and turn away. Later they help in a coverup or lie to police.
It's sadly not uncommon.
"I'm doing this for you." What did that mean? Is LH stating this is a public show for YOU, Ross, not the last goodbye to our Baby? It is not just the fact that LH seems emotionless in the face of the terrible way her son died. She has plenty of emotion. But it is all for RH!!!
Her attorney misses the mark saying she does not want to cry or show emotion in public....she HAS! She is like a tigress, protecting her cub...but the cub is ROSS!
This is the disparity that the public is noticing about her.
She has shown plenty of emotion throughout this. But it is all about Ross, for Ross, not Cooper. Even her little list of why she would not bring Cooper back...wasn't that just a list of excuses as to why this child's death isn't such a bad thing...to excuse her husband? All about Ross again...
It's like if your husband breaks a favorite antique vase, you say.."well, it was old. The color wasn't great in this room. It leaked a bit. No problem." LH essentially gave a "no problem" speech defending her husband at her dead child's funeral!
Even when she finds out what happened...does she go to her child...or her husband? Who does she pick? I know it was too late to comfort Cooper but there is usually some instinct just to touch him, cover him...something. But she is instead...comforting the man who left him to die.
So her lawyer misunderstands. The public has seen plenty of fire and emotion and protective spirit from LH. It just hasn't been toward her Baby. It's been for her..."Man."
Brilliant post.
People react to grief very differently. Some go numb. Some bawl. I vomit. My closest friend goes stone-faced and catatonic. You cannot, in my humble opinion, judge someone's grief by their outward appearance as you cannot judge someone's guilt and/or involvement by their expression or appearance at a funeral. I recall reading general discussion threads here (on Somer Thompson) prior to joining Websleuths. This little girl had been abducted, raped and murdered on the way home from school in her own neighborhood after running off from her siblings. The things said about her mother's attire and demeanor the day Somer Thompson was buried were shameful. It later came out her mother had ZERO involvement. I know that this is a forum for crime sleuthing and part of that involves speculation. I don't really think judging someone's outward appearances as 'bad' or 'telling' is accurate or appropriate, though.
This is obviously just my opinion.
Absolutely. But this is not about one appearance at the PCH. Let's review:
1. At her son's funeral, she focuses on her husband. She speaks with him on the cell phone, has him on speaker phone to address the congregation, and again speaks with him on the cell as she follows behind her baby's casket.
2. She states, at her baby's funeral, "I'm doing this for you, Ross."
3. At her son's funeral, LH states that she would not have Cooper come back to life because in heaven, he will miss out on certain bad things on earth.
4. LH "coincidentally"researched hot car deaths and feared something like this would happen, before it did.
5. LH spoke with her husband for one minute only a half an hour or less before Cooper was found. Since he had already texted to ask what time she was going to pick up Cooper, what was that call about?
6. When she got to the daycare, she insisted that the only possibility was that her son baked to death, forgotten in a hot car. She refused to imagine any other possibility.
7. LH's mother screamed in agony when receiving the news that Cooper was dead. LH didn;t. Her mother asked why she wasn't crying.
8. LE states LH was unemotional when she found out her son was dead.
9. LH didn't ask to see her son when she found out he was dead. She asked to see her husband.
10. "Did you say too much?"
11. LH expressed no anger toward her husband that we are aware of.
12. LH doesn't show any of the signs of being in shock, or depressed, on medication or of grieving. She isn't pale. Her eyes aren't red. She doesn't tear up except when it concerns Ross. She shows no discernible changes in breathing, expression, temperature or skin coloring, when her son's agonizing condition is discussed. (Compare this to her mother, sitting behind her). She blithely makes her way to her seat and sits there chomping gum like she's at the DMV. Her look is total boredom, unconcern, except, apparently, when her husband's bail is mentioned. Then she perks up.
I agree that appearances cannot tell us everything. But when combined with various things, they can be incredible clues. That's why LE study suspects and POI's for their reactions to things.
LH is not in shock or privately grieving because, as stmarysmead stated, LH HAS indeed shown emotion. Just not for her baby:
Yes, her Mom knows her better than anyone, I totally agree. On the day of the PCH, there is a woman sitting either right next to her or in back of her that has an astonished look on her face as the info comes out about RH's sexting habits, his searches on the computer, etc. and she looks directly at LH as she is hearing this. I did not know at the time this was her mother. I do now and I find it interesting that this woman looks at her daughter as she's hearing these things and LH can barely muster a sigh. We don't know what goes on behind closed doors but I have a feeling this woman has been having some very long talks with her daughter and it's just possible this is how the truth is going to come out. That was her cherished grandson that lost his life and IMO she will get to the bottom of it.
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