AR AR - Cassie Compton, 15, Stuttgart, 14 Sept 2014 #2

[borndem]

I do not know how to say this so will just come out with it. I mean no disrespect to Cassie's mother.

But in the video interview JC gave her affect is just plain off putting. Her voice quivers throughout as if she is on the verge of tears or major emotional breakdown and yet no tears fall and her eyes do not fill with tears threatening to fall. At the very end of the video she seems to be crying at least crying sobbing sounds come from her mouth. She then spends approx 30 seconds with her hands over her eyes with sobbing sounds and when she removes her hands her eyes are at last filling with tears. After much squinting a couple of tears (two) actually fall as she describes how hard this has been on her.

Now maybe she just is not a good crier. Maybe she has dry eye syndrome. But the sobs and whimpers and quivers of the voice do not seem to match up with the relatively few tears that finally fell.

I hope this is just a woman who was nervous on camera, who is not comfortable showing her emotion to the world or who has some physiological reason she cannot seem to produce tears that coincide with her whimpers. Because otherwise, she comes across very poorly IMO. The impression I am left with is someone who wants very badly to convey grief but cannot seem to quite pull it off.

I can clearly see why LE is not able to move past either her or her fiance as possible suspects.

I mean no disrespect to JC in this post, but I had to comment and leave Just My Humble Opinion. If I have misjudged, please forgive. I will gladly and quickly apologize.

tlcya, you took the words right out of my fingertips that were posed to enter here essentially what you posted. I will venture to say that surely, Shirley, we aren't the only two who have this same opinion...

I'm just finally snail- :snail: -crawling through this thread, and I saw the interview, and I kept asking, "Where are the tears, JC, where are the tears to match your sadness and desperation?" Initially as well, it seemed to me that she may have been medicated -- possibly and understandably with an anti-anxiety medication or similar -- certainly not uncommon nor unexpected for someone in her situation. Sleeping through the night must be difficult for her, probably from sadness and fearing the worst for Cassie, and possibly fear for her own self from someone who once was close to her. There just seemed to be a disconnect with her feeling what she was saying, but OTOH, she certainly could have had "stage fright," for lack of better words, from being interviewed and knowing possibly thousands of people would see and hear her. LE may be keeping an eye on her, too, and she may have noticed, and certainly that would make her nervous and fearful, too.

Anyway, it just seemed a bit "off" and made me wonder if she may know more than she has shared with anyone -- and she could be scared for her own well-being or for other more worrisome reasons.

Just my observation and opinion.

 

[borndem]

MODS - can you please update the link to Cassie's thread? I landed here from Hannah Graham's forum. There is an announcement at the top, but it links to the previous thread, which is now closed. Want to make sure people can get to the latest thread as easily as possible!

Well, I just have a couple of words here:

Welcome
:rollercoaster:

to

:websleuther:Websleuths,:websleuther:


:drumroll:DClady!!!!:drumroll:

We're glad you're here with us!!

:thewave:
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[Oriah]

[QUOTE whatever it is I can tell it has you worried and you feel it may be very relevant. Even without the name associated with the vehicle I strongly urge you to relay to FBI. If you saw the image on social media around Cassie or this case, my bet is the FBI can track it down and by doing so, find the person associated with it. Do contact them please. :twocents:[/QUOTE]


I second this. A concern of this nature, as sourced through local and social media, needs to go directly to the FBI for investigation. Not laypeople.

 

[skibaboo]

Just wanted you to know that I have been looking (unsuccessfully) also. I even think I saw it somewhere on FB before you posted the 1st time. But I can't be sure, might just be the power of suggestion. Now that I know you still haven't found it, I will look some more.


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Just wanted to say I looked too got4, didn't have any luck but I did look. Happy to look some more if needed

 

[got4lilgirls]

Heading to Queen Mallard pageant tonight (major social event -- at least for females). Starting to wonder if pic was deleted or person has hidden /locked to where more public can't see as much.

 

[tlcya]

I am still puzzling over the going for cigarettes text. These are[ETA presumed to be] Cassie's last known words. I think its important to figure out if that was from her, if it was code or simply about cigarettes, and further, if it was hers, why to HS, it implies he knows she is a smoker. If he knows she is a smoker, why not stop on the trip to take her home? Why would she not simply say "pull over at [insert store or friend's house here] I am going to go grab some cigarettes"?

Possible answers:

The text was not from her.

The text was from her but meant for another.

She wanted an excuse to leave the house.

Her friend HS would not stop for her (or was not someone she thought she should ask to do that due to his own rules and restrictions) or she did not ask him to stop for some reason known only to her.

anybody else have thoughts on the text?

 

[SaucyGal]

Regarding the cigarette text, another possibility is that she may have not had the money on her but had it at her house.

Sadly, imoo, I feel until new/more information is released or revealed we're going to be chasing our tails. While the police told the media they have no leads, who knows what they really have...? They don't have a town up-in-arms over this whole situation, no one (that I know of) visiting them every day to keep this fresh. If the FBI is still involved, who knows what they know? I HAVE to believe they are privy to far more than we are and know what they are doing. I don't know about the local pd so much, but I recall ASPD taking things seriously and they seem to do a fairly good job. I refuse to believe that one more layer of protection (LE) would be denied or stripped from this child. My denial isn't in the possibility that something bad happened to Cassie. My denial comes in when wrapping my head around how many people have seem to have failed her - her mother, her father, family, friends, local and out-of-state social communities, and NOW possibly even law enforcement. Totally unacceptable, unbelievable, and shameful.

Got4, the places you showed on the map, are those where you put the posters/placards (whatever they are...lol) up in town? If so, that's awesome, especially drive-thru windows! Thank you to you and anyone that helped you around town for such hard work! :yourock: Do you have a pic of the sign on display? If not, would it be possible to see one in situ? TIA.

On a side note and as a point of curiosity....Can anyone tell me why the thread was closed temporarily?

 

[iamnotagolem]

Another note regarding the text, it's been said Cassie was rather quiet during her weekend stay with HS, but soon after being dropped off by him she texts him?

 

[tlcya]

If the text was from Cassie or from someone else pretending to be Cassie, I am seriously wondering if the text was meant to go to someone else. I do not have an I-phone but I have recently joined the technology age enough to have a phone with texting, web, etc capabilities. I am not a good texter but getting better. I have inadvertently sent a text to the wrong person by pulling up an ongoing recent text chat and accidently selecting the one shown just beneath or just above it on recent text screen. I wonder if that text was meant for HS. Or if it was meant for JC who Cassie had apparently been trading texts with that evening prior to arriving home.

 

[tlcya]

I also wonder if BR's phone is similar in make or model and if he smokes. Just questions that are coming up in regard to that text.

 

[Soulmagent]

Today on Judys facebook there is a new post. I however am not Peter Hyatt or anything.

 

[borndem]

So just to make sure I have it all straight-

We are looking for specific information that will help lead to Cassie's recovery, we believe. There is a certain level of collective experience here, so I think it is a safe assumption.

We are trying to determine more about the climate of the town and if there is anything that Cassie crossed paths with that led to her disappearance.

Let me tell you, if I were living in Stuttgart, I wouldnt be too comfortable that the person who is in custody on seemingly unrelated charges is the only person to be concerned about.

bbm

Yes and yes. My thoughts, too. I just have this creepy feeling about this whole thing. Is the whole town trying to ignore it? Are they that uncaring? Or is it that we just don't know very much about what's going on because we can't get very much info. Stuttgart is a small town -- just under 10,000 people -- lotsa secrets, and secrets that aren't as secret as the secret-keeper thinks.

Part of me thinks little Cassie is no longer living -- foul play, of course, prolly only a few hours before or after she was reported as missing. And part of me thinks that she indeed may have either bought a bus ticket (wouldn't someone have noticed? Yes, if she bought it in Stuttgart, methinks.), or gone on the road with someone she "met" online <shiver, shake>. She, IMO, wanted to be away from that town and its disappointments and its terrors, so she just up and left, severing all ties until she got settled. She was an unhappy, disappointed and unnoticed young woman, and things, IMO, had gotten worse in that house. It made her decision to leave a no-brainer, but her method of escape may have been a different kind of no-brainer. JMHO. Oh, I hope, if she is still on earth, she is happy now, and in a safe place.

 

[sreshowtime]

My inquiring mind wonders if the bunch that met at that Gossip Cafe or what ever it was,to make groups, got started today with getting the word out to the festival comers about Cassie being missing and please BOLO for her??

 

[borndem]

My husband went to the Jacksonville/Cabot area the Thursday after she went missing. At that point we were unaware of the situation. I told my husband on Friday night that she was missing and he went to her house to tell JC and BR that he was pretty sure he had seen her in Jacksonville/Cabot the previous day. BR looked at him smirking and said "You saw her with your own two eyes, huh?" and then giggled. My husband said it was one of the creepiest things he had ever heard and it made the hair on his body stand up. At this point, there was no evidence that would lead one to believe in foul play. A few days later my husband drove them up to the area (at JC's request) and he showed them where he thought he saw her and they went door to door to some businesses asking about her and passing out flyers. My husband and BR had some time to talk by themselves that day. My husband went to LE as soon as they returned home and told LE what BR had said. I don't know if I can say anymore than that, it might be relevant evidence that LE is working with, I don't know... no one knows.

Even more creepy business...another <shiver>

Hmmmm, what if?....

 

[borndem]

This is what has been sent to the printer for posters. Had to go with a single picture because of DPI (quality) issues at larger size. But surely an interested party who might want more info will find her on Google or FB and be able to access the many more we have all seen. Please don't ask for any changes at this time. It will take a lot of enhancing to get more pics of other hairstyles modified for future use. My apologies in advance if the printer comes back and says I need to create a Version 3.

Looks like you have to download the file to be able to see it. Just click and open!

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I think it looks great!! Eye-catching colors -- an 8 or 10 year old would understand it, all the numbers to call are there -- including the anonymous one. It shows that her hair could be blond or darker -- her pic is large and that's what is important. If you look at the pic, I think you would recognize her if you saw her in a grocery store, a quick-stop or gas station or walking down the street. Very good work!!

 

[borndem]

BBM, this struck me as odd too. JC said "none that I know of" in response to the question of sexual abuse that has been rumored. As a RSO who allowed her other daughter to be sexually abused, how did she not do everything possible to make sure that Cassie was never abused? How could she not say "absolutely not, she has never been left alone with any male"???? How??? How as a parent especially after having one child abused do you not make sure it never happens again?

With the rumors that BR was Cassie's boyfriend first (puke) I seriously wonder if that is to whom she was engaged.

bbm

Oh, my. I never thought of that... makes my skin crawl. I wonder now, too.

This case just gets creepier & creepier. That poor little girl -- and she was a little girl. There's no way she could really know much about life & being an adult. Now what friends would she confide with that info? And even if the "finance" was not he, still, who could/would she tell? Unless getting engaged at 14 is not all that unusual in that area... (that cannot be). I see images in my mind that show her in a corner, getting smaller & smaller -- almost to nothing. Yep, I'd hit the road. I would take whatever money I could get my hands on -- a couple from my mom's wallet or ask for cigarette money ($6.00/$7.00 a pack adds up) & maybe beg a buck or two from my sister, or borrow a dollar here & there, do it for several weeks, knowing how much bus fare it would take to get me to Dallas or New Orleans or Mobile, etc., plus a little spending money, and then just take a small bag & GTH outta there. Go to the bus station as late at night as there was a bus leaving -- wear dark glasses or something on my head as disguise and GO. It could only get better than this.

 

[fishdad]

my first post here. forgive me for my bad typing im not any good at it..i have read this whole thread and i have an opinion..i dont think jc had anything to do with cassies dissapearence i think she knows more about her homelife than she is telling.about the lack of tears maybe she is just cried out or dehydrated.i had someone close to me die and i cried for 3 days till i couldnt cry anymore.i can tell jc is on some powerful pain killers.probably spends more time in bed than anywhere else. i wonder if she did see cassie the night she went missing.i wonder if she even made it home at all.or if jc's boyfriend had anything to do with it.is he still in jail?

 

[got4lilgirls]

bbm

Oh, my. I never thought of that... makes my skin crawl. I wonder now, too.

This case just gets creepier & creepier. That poor little girl -- and she was a little girl. There's no way she could really know much about life & being an adult. Now what friends would she confide with that info? And even if the "finance" was not he, still, who could/would she tell? Unless getting engaged at 14 is not all that unusual in that area... (that cannot be). I see images in my mind that show her in a corner, getting smaller & smaller -- almost to nothing. Yep, I'd hit the road. I would take whatever money I could get my hands on -- a couple from my mom's wallet or ask for cigarette money ($6.00/$7.00 a pack adds up) & maybe beg a buck or two from my sister, or borrow a dollar here & there, do it for several weeks, knowing how much bus fare it would take to get me to Dallas or New Orleans or Mobile, etc., plus a little spending money, and then just take a small bag & GTH outta there. Go to the bus station as late at night as there was a bus leaving -- wear dark glasses or something on my head as disguise and GO. It could only get better than this.

There has NOT been a bus station in Stuttgart since I was a teenager in 1985. There is a limited "pit stop" at the Super 8 Motel for Greyhound / Jefferson lines in Pine Bluff, 35 miles away, but nearest ticket station is Little Rock. (But I don't feel this is very plausible with no purse taken, and she left her phone charger behind. She was very conscious about her hair/face and would want a hairbrush/cosmetics.)

 

[got4lilgirls]

Another note regarding the text, it's been said Cassie was rather quiet during her weekend stay with HS, but soon after being dropped off by him she texts him?

I have never been a smoker, but had a thought . . . If she were in a SOMBER, quiet mood riding the 20 rural minutes back into town with HS, isn't that (physiologically) atypical of someone needing a new pack of cigarettes? I would expect someone out of cigarettes being crankier and jittery wanting a smoke ASAP suggesting a cigarette store stop on the way home. Did Cassie come home to find her personal stash of cigarettes were gone?

If Cassie sent the cigarette text instead of telling her mom vocally, it may have been to avoid an argument about her leaving again so quickly at dusk. To have money stashed at home instead of on her person over the county fair weekend is a little odd, too. If she bought new boots with her own money recently, that might have depleted any recent savings. Teens tend to have goals of saving up a certain amount of money to buy a special thing (boots in this case) that parents won't buy outright for them. She didn't get to shop for back-to-school clothes as a homeschooler, and her birthday isn't until December. If the boots were a gift or second-hand, the giver should have come forward with description by now.

The Beverly Carter case had simultaneously been on the LR TV news that weekend, and the media reported a false text about BC out drinking with friends as an excuse for her being late (when BC was not even a drinker). Might the news have planted the idea for BR (or unknown perp) to send a false text to cover Cassie's absence at first?

JC suggests Cassie might have been in a hurry to go right back out the door for one of her MANIC walks. She wasn't talking as a manic would in the pickup truck . . .

 

[Caring4Many]

So this seems to be the question of the week for me....WHICH IS IT? How is there such a change in 2 weeks? Are JC & BR still suspects? How many different stories from everyone can their possibly be? Does the list of those that fail Cassie EVER end?

On 11/7 "Detective Lieutenant Mark Duke of the Stuttgart Police Department said Judy and Brandon are still considered suspects. Duke said he follows up on a couple of leads a day."
http://www.katv.com/story/27331290/cassie-comptons-mother-opens-up-about-past

Then on 11/21- "THV11 spoke with Stuttgart police on Friday, Nov. 21 and officials said they have no leads."
http://www.thv11.com/story/news/loc...-to-help-in-search-for-missing-teen/17449427/