LE wants to interview the parents separately

[marge_rita]

In response to your first quoted post: A person's refusal to continue with a hostile interrogation does not necessarily mean that person is guilty of anything. It could mean the person is tired, or that they've suddenly seen the light and realize they need an attorney to help balance the scales. Once an interview has evolved into a hostile interrogation, a person has the right to ask for an attorney, and it is really sad that so many see this as a sign of guilt.


In response to your second post: I really don't care WHO started the Innocence Project. I do care how many innocent people have been released from prison after decades, even released from death row. These are people who were INNOCENT of the crime they were convicted of. And they've lost years of their lives.

I am all for the prosecution of the guilty. But I am equally for the rights that allow USA citizens to defend themselves against unjust prosecution.

Won't it be interesting to see who if anyone is charged with baby Lisa's demise?

 

[marge_rita]

DB & JI weren't questioned for 17 hours - it was 11 hours, per this article (with quote by JI):

Irwin said the parents were doing "everything we can" to bring Lisa home. He said that during Thursday's interrogations, he had "reached his boiling point" and couldn't take any more questioning after 11 hours.

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/10/06/3190568/cell-phones-taken-along-with-missing.html

sorrell skye,
Appreciate you straightening that out. :seeya:

 

[Deleted member 39678]

It often seems to me that a few are more concernerd with the 'poor parents' than the child who is missing and desperately needs to be found. Baby Lisa deserves justice.


imo

I haven't seen anything like that on WS. Or are you talking about somewhere else?

 

[Geralyn]

If that's what it took, yes absolutely, I would expect to be grilled unmercifully, especially if I had already messed up my timeline and omitted a few pertinent points. I would be there 24/7 without the need to whine and bemoan the reason wouldn't you?

I can envision a scenario where I'd be innocent...and after repeated accusations to which I've denied..getting frustrated that precious time was being wasted on me and not looking for and interrogating other potential persons of interest/witnesses.

I would continue however, as I've said repeatedly, to answer questions with my attorneys presence and advisement. But is it really a "question" when a cop asks you "you killed your baby, didn't you?"? There is only so much of that I'm gonna take if I'm innocent...and desperate for cops to focus on finding my baby. If cops didn't want to move on to something more productive, I'd feel I was at a dead end with them. Again...provided I were innocent.

 

[Marshmallow]

It seems to me that some of us just don't see how railroading the parents is going to do Lisa any good.

there is no proof of railroading other than the words of the parents who have already told many versions of thier stories. how is lying doing any good in finding this sweet baby?

 

[Geralyn]

I'm sure some of the evidence from the home has been processed now. I can see a re-interview as being the next logical step. With a lawyer present, and the interview recorded with both audio and video to make sure everything is on the up-and-up and is being done per procedure.

I can't see why Lisa's parents would object to that.

MOO and all other disclaimers....

Absolutely, I can too. But doesn't the latest statement about LE wanting further questioning say not related to new leads? Thats whats hanging me up. To me, evidence captured from recent searches would be new leads. Maybe I need to read that again.

 

[frankie069]

Let's say that someone has taken your child and you know this without a doubt. When you report it the police get in your face for hours and accuse you of killing your child. Every time that you talk to them they don't ask you anything about anything that has anything to do with your missing child unless it is them pointing a finger at you and asking you what you did with that child.


How long do you put up with it even though you know you are innocent and had nothing to do with it? A to of people keep saying if you have nothing to hide then you won't mind talking to the police but if their actions are abusive and appear to be useless how long do you put up with the abuse?

If you want my honest answer, then you have to take my word for it.. I would put up for it as long as I had to, as long as they wanted to keep me there. They could get in my face as much as they want. They could torture me if they wanted to. I dont care. Just find my baby. But you know what, I wouldnt stop talking with LE, I wouldnt change my time line unless it was something I might have forgotten about, which would not have been something as drastic as a bedtime or a blackout and I would cooperate as much as I had to, I would be setting up command centers of volunteers, I would be manning my phone at home in case someone called to tell me they had my child, I would be afraid to go to the bathroom in fear i would miss something and I would be on every single local and non local channel with a RECENT picture of my child begging for her return every single chance the media would give me to be on TV. I would be in the paper, the radio anything at all. I would be walking the streets, my family would be doing the same. So to answer your question, I would do anything at all they wanted me to do and put up with anything they threw my way, but you know what, they wouldnt keep me long because I wouldnt be lying and they would know that.

 

[norest4thewicked]

Let's say that someone has taken your child and you know this without a doubt. When you report it the police get in your face for hours and accuse you of killing your child. Every time that you talk to them they don't ask you anything about anything that has anything to do with your missing child unless it is them pointing a finger at you and asking you what you did with that child.


How long do you put up with it even though you know you are innocent and had nothing to do with it? A to of people keep saying if you have nothing to hide then you won't mind talking to the police but if their actions are abusive and appear to be useless how long do you put up with the abuse?

That is such a jaded view of LE and the way they do things. Too many people here (I think) watch too much CSI. LE does not do things this way. They want to find whoever took Lisa. It's about Lisa. It's not about DB. Too many people are forgetting that!

 

[Mountain_Kat]

A new detective for the questioning is a good idea anyway. Let's get 'er done.

Works for me.

 

[Geralyn]

Innocent people don't need protection.

Well thats a philisophical difference of opinion between us. I do respect your point of view on that, however.

I personal believe all American citizens have a right to protect themselves. I have the constitution backing me up.

 

[TorisMom003]

Young said he is "not disputing" family attorney Joe Tacopina's claims that the family has cooperated and answered other questions, such as specific questions regarding tips and leads. But that is not sufficient, he said.

The above is part of the statement made by Young that goes against what he has claimed to the media before now. In one statement we have Young claiming that the parents have stopped co-operating with LE and are no longer answering questions. Then in the above statement we have Young stating the opposite. Was the statement reversed because of the parents now having a lawyer that is telling the media the truth about the parents still answering questions? At this point, who knows. But it does make LE seem untrustworthy and willing to feed the parents to the wolves (media) to get whatever outcome they suspect this information (misinformation in this case) will bring about.

MOO

 

[HatesSociopaths]

I'd like to bring this back to this one simplicity:

Detectives have some questions for Debbie and Jeremy to help locate Lisa. Now are they going to sit down (with an attorney present) and answer them or not?

 

[marge_rita]

George S: If the police say we want to talk to the couple today, no questions off the table, your clients will say yes?

Joe T: Absolutely

I have a feeling Joe T. is :liar: just ah wittle bit.

imo

 

[Mountain_Kat]

Well thats a philisophical difference of opinion between us. I do respect your point of view on that, however.

I personal believe all American citizens have a right to protect themselves. I have the constitution backing me up.

I absolutely agree with you, Geralyn. And if I were in these parents shoes, I would absolutely hire an attorney to advise me.

What I wouldn't do is start giving law enforcement a set of demands and preconditions that had to be met before I agreed to sit down and answer their questions. NOT when my kid is missing. NOT if I'm afraid for the life of my child.

JMO

 

[frankie069]

I'd like to bring this back to this one simplicity:

Detectives have some questions for Debbie and Jeremy to help locate Lisa. Now are they going to sit down (with an attorney present) and answer them or not?

Agreed and worth seeing again....

 

[mrye4709]

Do you have a link to that, that they have been questioned separately, answered all questions and with no atty present. A link from LE about that ? I am curious to see it.

I think in the JJ interview JI said they were questioned seperately. LE hasn't said this at all, but they haven't said anything really. No reason to doubt they were questioned seperately as I would think that is the norm in a case like this.

JI and DB do need to go in and be questioned again, but I dont' think they need to be treated like suspects and accused unless LE is ready to name them as suspects.

 

[norest4thewicked]

Well thats a philisophical difference of opinion between us. I do respect your point of view on that, however.

I personal believe all American citizens have a right to protect themselves. I have the constitution backing me up.

We are well past that and I responded with what I actually meant.

 

[marge_rita]

They are dragging their feet, whining and complaining making sure it all takes a long as possible. They could have got this sorted out in the beginning but it was they who changed their stories and then decided not to answer questions the police thought they needed the answers to.

If they weren't stalling so hard then the police could be looking at other scenarios but the parents don't want to cooperate, one asks why when the best thing for Lisa would be for them to tell the police everything they know.

The police want to pin this on whoever did this, if it's the parents so be it, if not then they must comply and let LE do their job.

:woohoo::seeya:

 

[Marshmallow]

Young said he is "not disputing" family attorney Joe Tacopina's claims that the family has cooperated and answered other questions, such as specific questions regarding tips and leads. But that is not sufficient, he said.

The above is part of the statement made by Young that goes against what he has claimed to the media before now. In one statement we have Young claiming that the parents have stopped co-operating with LE and are no longer answering questions. Then in the above statement we have Young stating the opposite. Was the statement reversed because of the parents now having a lawyer that is telling the media the truth about the parents still answering questions? At this point, who knows. But it does make LE seem untrustworthy and willing to feed the parents to the wolves (media) to get whatever outcome they suspect this information (misinformation in this case) will bring about.

MOO

the only ones I see as untrustworthy are the parents who keep changing their stories.
why would they do that if LE is trying to find their child?

it reads to me as the parents did once cooperate, past tense but no longer will, present tense. but their child is still missing, real sense

 

[cluciano63]

What about Lisa's right? Right now, the rights of her parents are not a concern of mine...sorry, they just aren't. They would be, if they had not changed stories, declined to talk to police when asked, etc....but right now Lisa can't help LE and she needs to be helped. The police are learning bits and pieces perhaps, after searching the home, reviewing the computers and phone logs and probably have brand new questions. Who to answer them, if not the parents? And because the parents are in a huff, they avoid doing so? I know I am rambling but this is just beyond ludicrous to me, not to mention totally creating and maintaining the circus-like atmosphere that this case has taken on.

LE is NOT in the business of stringing people up just to close a case. There may be the occassional "bad" cop, but just as often, if not more often, there are parents killing their own children; we read about that everyday.