I transcribed that video so I wouldn't have to keep rewinding to check what had been said.--wish I knew more about speech patterns and what they indicate. Maybe, just like rocking is a self soothing behavior, the pattern developed by repeating short phrases or sentences also soothes. For instance, "I don't, I don't know. I hope, I hope not. I hope they don't charge him at all." It's almost poetic.
At first glance, it seemed to me that JK was trying to put across her story: that her son was a fun loving family guy (SK was playing with the children on JK's porch Sunday morning, SK spent time with kids at his sister's house); that SK really liked children (he looked for Elaina with Dominic, a little boy from the neighbourhood); SK was protective of children (he was so upset by the way TJ treated KS that he challenged him to a fight); that SK needed direction so couldn't have formed the intent to harm (when told that Elaina had disappeared, SK had to be told by his mother to check the pool, to go up the street); that SK was obedient (he did what his mom told him and then came home); that SK's is being bullied and is frightened (threats to his safety on FB, threats from RS--notably NOT from TJ or from TS Sr.); that it wasn't SK's fault that Elaina was sad (because she was already "a depressed little girl"). In JK's story, it is obvious that her son was just too caring about the welfare of children to have ever hurt Elaina, unlike other people in the baby's family.
JK, she says of herself, is known to the children as "Aunt Nana" and KS had no problem coming up and talking to her. In her story, JK is a woman concerned with protecting her father, son, and grandson from FaceBook threats (in the words of Mike Meyer's mother, "A villain is the hero of his own story.") JK has been a good mother (JK's daughter lives just down the street, JK knows what diaper rash looks like) while AS was dumb (doesn't recognize diaper rash), negative (she was "an angry person"), in a troubled marriage ("I think there were some problems you know between them two with the baby."), and an abusive mother (seen in the neighbourhood "bein' rough with her kids", and someone who would "definitely" hurt her children with worse than a slap in the face).
While the nephew disappears from the story ("about three-quarters of the way down the alley"), the van slips in. While JK is attempting to lay the groundwork for TJ being abusive to his children, and upsetting SK, she starts to say that TJ "like pushed Kylie in the, the va-" before correcting herself to say "puttin' her in the truck". So the van also has made an appearance. If that was a Freudian slip, just who was pushing who into the "missing" van? Had the van (the one RS was ranting about on TV) been parked down the alley Sunday?
JK also rips the mask of loving grandfather from RS. What better red herring could there be to distract LE's attention from SK than a man who throws his homeless daughter's clothing out of the window of his truck and then sends her a text message accusing her of stealing $30.00?
In JK's story, Elaina makes only a token appearance as a sad little girl. I'll read it again, just to be sure, but nowhere do I hear worry from JK about how frightened or lonely or confused Elaina must be. If she's still alive.
I have no doubt that there may be a few elements of truth in JK's story, but to me, it's a pretty flimsy tale. It seems as though JK's trying really hard to protect her son, and herself, from the consequences of their actions and inactions. But, she hasn't thought this through very well. For instance, early on in the story, when CD points a discrepancy about the timing of when she and SK started searching, he startles JK into saying "Goodness. I'm trying to think."
Interesting that at the end of the interview, JK says "They've [LE] searched here, I think, a total of four, four or five times. Yeah, and every time I don't have a problem with them searching." CD says, "Turned up nothing?" And JK responds. "Turned up nothin'."
To me, Julie seemed cool, calm, and collected.
Until September 6th.
The raw interview of Julie King by Chris Delcamp was recorded on June 18, 2013. Angela Mories Steinfurth had been arrested June 12. Steven King was arrested July 22nd, 2013.
