"First of all, how do you assume somebody is in full camo gear by seeing their silhouette kneeling down? How could he say he believed it was DS in full camo gear in the garage and know it was HB out there with him when he could hear unidentifiable voices but did not go look to see who it actually was? All of this before he saw them walking away together. That part of the story completely baffles me like no other and makes me think the order of the timeline as we know it could be completely false. Not the time it happened, but the sequence."
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I think that Clint is not an experienced public speaker, nor has he been interviewed a lot in his life, so some of his story may seem confusing because he rambles a lot. He is also Southern, and we have a way of putting things together in a sentence that could be hard for others to understand.
I believe he is NOT saying that he actually saw the cammo while viewing the silhouette. He knows the guy was wearing cammo because he later saw him in those clothes while walking into the woods with Holly. He realized that it had to be the same man who was in the garage. So he feels confident saying the guy was wearing cammo in the garage without having to actually see it at that point. He's made those conclusions based on what he learned later....not on what he actually was seeing at the time he looked out the window into the garage. He thought he was seeing Holly with her boyfriend who had been hunting, but later had to readjust due to what actually happened.
Clint is not a good communicator, in addition to his inexperience, because he is also under a great deal of stress as well, and he may be trying not to reveal too much while still telling his story.
He has been trying to put the pieces together of what he saw after the trauma of his sister's abduction became a reality for him. It was early morning, and he didn't realize he should've been paying closer attention, or that Holly was in danger. He's just not all that great at being clear and concise.
I have a friend who cannot tell a story about her adventures that makes any sense. She is a terrible communicator, and can be very confusing. I have to go over it and ask questions in the right way to get the complete details in the right order. I suspect Clint may be like that.
I don't think he is involved in Holly's abduction in any way, or that he is fabricating any part of his story. He just doesn't express himself well in an interview, and there is no effort made to clarify anything by the interviewer.
The media got all kinds of details wrong in the beginning, and that has added to the confusion.
Yes, I can agree that CB is not a gifted orator. But it has been 5 months of people always trying to water down the things that CB has said. IMO it is very telling in how people relate a story, much more so than the actual phrasing. Could we agree that when recalling memories, we play them out in our mind's eye and we still need to decipher what it is we are going to say? If so, then I find it significant in how CB retells parts of the story, because the whole story is too murky to put together. Notice in the JVM interview, when CB talks about seeing HB and abductor walking away he says-
"C. BOBO: And then I got in touch with my mom and found out that Holly was supposed to be in school that morning and realized that that must have been her at the house and then I looked back out and saw Holly and a male walking towards the woods and that`s the last time I saw her. " CB admits to witnessing HB and abductor walk away, but no description of the abductor at this point. In the very next question asked, CB then goes into this-
"C. BOBO: Right. And I told my mom that once I realized it was Holly, I said well, Holly and Drew which is her boyfriend were out in the garage talking."
"C. BOBO: No, I assumed -- I was inside the house and I assumed that that was Holly and her boyfriend Drew and he was dressed in full camouflage so I thought that Drew had been to the woods and killed a turkey and brought it back to the house and the two were sitting there over the turkey talking. After I saw the blood, I thought that was blood of a turkey that Drew had killed."
Now notice when talking about this part of the story, the part he admits to only seeing silhouettes, he gives a much more detailed description. He says HB and a man walked away together and then says WHILE HE WAS STILL INSIDE THE HOUSE he says that he assumed it was HB and DS in full camo gear. How do you assume somebody is in full camo when you have not seen the person? That is very important IMO because when recalling memories we usually associate what happened with the specific sequence, even if telling a story out of order of the entire sequence of events. For example, he talks about seeing
them walk away together before he describes it as HB and DS being in the garage.
It is much simpler to say I saw HB and a man in camo walk away, and then refer to them together as "they", than it would be to always state them individually and only give descriptions in certain parts of the retelling. Does that make sense to you? Again, I am not trying to bash CB in any way, but I have found it interesting in how he tells parts of the story and the details he adds to the specific sequence.
Here is a generic story to illustrate my point- A boy and his father go to the circus. The father buys the boy some cotton candy.When they are seated, the boy's pink cotton candy falls to the ground and the father goes to buy him a new one. - I could of said the father bought him pink cotton candy, but the color of the candy was only important when i chose to describe it. It is the same thing with CB. For whatever reason, he retells that sequence of the story in much greater detail than any other, the part he admits to only seeing silhouettes. It is because he chose to do so and I don't have a clue how that relates to being a gifted speaker, but it definitely makes you take more notice to that sequence IMO.
) then why call his mother? I'd just go back to bed...
