Mark McClish, on his statement analysis website, offers ways to look at statement to ferret out the lies.
http://www.statementanalysis.com/lying/
About a half an hour after she went outside. I had a really good friend of mine and her daughter stay the night with us. And my good friend`s daughter came in and she said, Nevaeh`s outside riding her scooter in the road.
That`s when I immediately got up and I looked for my shoes. It took a couple of minutes, a few minutes to look for my shoes. And then after that, I went outside and I noticed that she was missing and called her name.
She's lying #1: She "immediately" got up and
looked for her shoes. Why would she need shoes to open the door and tell Nevaeh to get off the road and come in? The "immediately" is JB wanting us to think she was right on it; the shoe thing? too many details. It's only relevant to her because the next part of her story is going to be a 45 minute outdoor search. She'll need those shoes.
She's lying #2: She says, "And then after that, I went outside and I noticed that she was missing and called her name." If you went outside to call your child, you wouldn't
"notice she was missing." You would say, "I looked outside but I couldn't see her. So I called her name." She can't be "missing" at this point from the perspective of a mother who is recounting a true story of what happened. She is just not in sight. You would call her name BEFORE concluding she is missing, not after. And you would look around the apartment and neighborhood before thinking that a child is missing.
She's lying #3: Notice the whole set of sentence fragments that follow, leaving the first person pronoun out. "Looked through," "Went to,"...where is the "I"? No one recounting such a story would fragment this way; someone really remembering would say, "I looked, I went, I..." And where is this good friend and her daughter? Why is she alone looking for the child? She spends 45 minutes looking and doesn't get help, at least not in this version of the story. Please.
She's lying #4. McClish talks about unusual statements, weird fragments and screwed up sentences that are caused when people make up stuff on the fly instead of remembering it. Here's a doozy:
"Yes, because she told me she was going back upstairs to her friend`s house. And that`s assuming where she went." First, if the transcript is correct, this statement is an answer to NG pushing on that timeline, the one that keeps moving, probably because the time of death is going to be a problem. What does the timeline have to do with what Nevaeh told her? The question and answer don't jibe. And look at that fragment, which does not at all connect to the sentence before. She wants to say, "I assumed that's where she went." Switching the verb tense from the past (normal story telling) to the present progressive (assuming) is one indicator of lying. The statement is
radically true from another viewpoint: "And that's assuming" again leaves out the first person--she doesn't say "I assumed" because she DIDN"T assume Nevaeh went upstairs. She knows that the child didn't go upstairs. "That's assuming" is a phrase we use when we are
in the present and talking about some variable in our calculations. E.g., "We'll have enough money for a new roof. That's assuming that Joe still has a job in the fall." In her story, she is literally "assuming" that Nevaeh went upstairs; otherwise, she can't account for why she didn't pay attention to her other than to either admit negligence or that the scooter story isn't true. Boxed in, she tells a story that "assumes" the child went upstairs.
She's lying #5: ”I have never left her alone with him," said Jennifer, “There was always another parent with her and him.” As kiki noted above, this is a bizarre statement. Another parent? What a normal person would say is "another adult." But here she is making up "another parent" when there clearly can't be one. Unless there is another "daddy" like 'Daddy George."
And McClish says saying "I'm innocent" or "not guilty" (legal terms) is not the same thing as saying "I didn't kill my daugher" or "I don't know who killed her."
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