Hello, I am not sure where to jump in here. I just finished the series and I have one burning question I wanted to post. I certainly have not read everything yet so please forgive me if I missed a discussion on this.
In the video taped March 1 interrogation with Brendan at the Sheriffs Department (The one where his mother doesn't come in with him, but comes in at the end and he says they ' got in his head') they are asking him what happened with Theresa's head. During the questioning on this topic it sounds like Brendan says "They cut her hair" then they push him more and he says "They punched her". I wasn't reading along the first time I heard this clip. I heard this again because this clip is replayed in Episode 8 or 9. I went back to Episode 3 again and read that the subtitles say "THAT HE cut her hair" and "THAT HE punched her" which really doesn't make any sense grammatically ( not that Brendan is always grammatically correct either). I just wanted to point out, it sure does sound like "They" to me and not "That he". MOO, did anyone else hear it like this?
You can see this by going to episode 3 and to the 53 minute mark.
I would not read into the cutting her/punching her testimony too much, it is obviously false. They spend a good portion of the 5/13 interview (the one thrown out because Kachinsky has no idea how to be a defense attorney) trying to get him to change his statement on this, which he eventually does. He is clearly guessing about what happened to her head. Here is the relevant section from the transcript
pg 584-586
W: What else did he do to her? We know something else was done. Tell us, and what else did you do? Come on. Something w. the head. Brendan?
B: Huh?
W: What else did you guys do, come on.
F: What he made you do Brendan, we know he made you do something else.
W: What was it?
(pause)
W: What was it?
F: We have the evidence Brendan, we just need you to, to be honest w. us
B: That he cut off her hair
W: He cut off her hair? In the house?
B: Yeah
W: Why did he do that? Was she alive?
B: No
W: What did he do w. the hair?
B: He set it down on the counter
W: The counter where?
B: Like a dresser
F: What did he use to cut her hair off with?
B: The knife
F: Was she alive?
B: No
F: Did he say why he did that?
B: No
W: Ok, what else?
F: What else was done to her head?
B: That he punched her
W: What else?
(pause)
W: What else?
F: He made you do something to her, didn't he? So he would feel beter about not being the only person, right? Yeah.
F: What did he make you do to her?
(pause)
W: What did he make you do Brendan? It's Ok, what did he make you do?
B: Cut her
W: Cut her where?
B: On her throat
W: Cut her throat? When did that happen?
B: Before he picked her off the bed?
W: So she was alive yet, right?
(Brendan nods yes)
pg 587
W: So Steve stabs her first and then you cut her neck? What else happens to her in her head?
F: It's extremely, extremely important you tell us this, for us to believe you
W: Come on Brendan, what else?
(pause)
F: We know, we just need you to tell us
B: That's all I can remember
W: All right, I'm just gonna come out and ask you. Who shot her in the head?
B: He did
F: Then why didn't you tell us that?
B: Cuz I couldn't think of it
All of this conversation is just a pathetic attempt for them to get Brendan to say Teresa was shot. This conversation, IMO, is completely useless. Brendan is clearly trying to figure out what happened to her head, he has absolutely no idea. He cannot come up w. her being shot w.o Wiegert telling him, he clearly was not there for any of this. This is a great example of him trying to come up w. answers he thinks they want. Wiegert should be ashamed of himself for for giving up the information that she was shot. Of course Brendan was going to answer that she was, he was trying to figure out what happened to her head, he couldn't do it, because he wasn't there. That should have been obvious to them.