TX TX - Heidi Broussard, 33, & Margot Carey, 2 weeks, Austin, 12 Dec 2019 #3

[Alathea]

My first thought when I read about this case was that it was a fake or orchestrated disappearance for money and attention. As I continue to read through the information and watch interviews, I still can't seem to shake that feeling.

I just hope that both are soon found safe and well.

Wouldn't that be great if mother and baby were alive.

Just to understand your perspective: Who would be orchestrating such a disappearance, and how would they get money, and how would that attention help them?

 

[shinimeggie]

I know pot. I know of no regular users who would get giggly or smiley at a time like that. And I think it would be unlikely for someone to suddenly decide to get super high when their family is missing but not be a regular user.

To me it’s just another leap to explain away his behavior and make it not have a sinister connotation. I saw so much of that on the CW threads. And the Kelsey case. And various other cases.

“Well maybe he..”

Anything is possible but I’m just doing my own public analysis of the case. When I start to see an ever-increasing number of excuses for a number of different anomalies it just tells me something about a case.

I think we all have different approaches to a case. Some go by their emotions. Some try to find every way possible to find a reason why the most common outcome doesn’t fit in a given case.

For me I, mostly compare to other cases and focus on norms of human behavior.

Again, in this case, I am not talking about this guy laughing during an interview.

As I stated, I am talking broadly about the misconception that you have to be a new pot smoker to feel intense good/bad effects -- not about him.

I actually, personally, get no read off of him for anything, I'm finding him very hard to read for whatever reason, so don't think I'm excusing him -- I have no horse in this race. I'm not even certain this guy is a stoner, I could see him one and not as one.

I simply don't like drug misconceptions and I think it can cause people to have an altered view on substances which sometimes impacts the way a case (not this case, again, just generally) can be seen.

 

[Seajay]

My first thought when I read about this case was that it was a fake or orchestrated disappearance for money and attention. As I continue to read through the information and watch interviews, I still can't seem to shake that feeling.

I just hope that both are soon found safe and well.

Now that is a theory I haven read in his case. I think I’ll gnaw on that idea for awhile.

 

[MSangi81]

It'd crack me up too. /s

I don't think he is actually laughing as in it is funny. People do odd things when anxious. I'm sure he feels pressured and uncomfortable. Im also sure that when he comes across comments- he may need some compassion right now. All I'm saying is it doesn't hurt to have some human compassion and not assume the worst about everyone. If he was involved it will come out in time.

 

[gitana1]

Again, in this case, I am not talking about this guy laughing during an interview.

As I stated, I am talking broadly about the misconception that you have to be a new pot smoker to feel intense good/bad effects -- not about him.

I actually, personally, get no read off of him for anything, I'm finding him very hard to read for whatever reason, so don't think I'm excusing him -- I have no horse in this race. I'm not even certain this guy is a stoner, I could see him one and not as one.

I simply don't like drug misconceptions and I think it can cause people to have an altered view on substances which sometimes impacts the way a case (not this case, again, just generally) can be seen.

Ah! Ok. Understood.

 

[SCHMAE]

My first thought when I read about this case was that it was a fake or orchestrated disappearance for money and attention. As I continue to read through the information and watch interviews, I still can't seem to shake that feeling.

I just hope that both are soon found safe and well.

Never crossed my mind but since you bring it up, I will pray you are right.

 

[Mimi in London]

My first thought when I read about this case was that it was a fake or orchestrated disappearance for money and attention. As I continue to read through the information and watch interviews, I still can't seem to shake that feeling.

I just hope that both are soon found safe and well.

The laughter, the tears, the seemingly staged scene, no photos at PC, LE references to ‘the offence’ and ‘unique’ nature of the case....Not impossible.

 

[Alathea]

I don't think he is actually laughing as in it is funny. People do odd things when anxious. I'm sure he feels pressured and uncomfortable. Im also sure that when he comes across comments- he may need some compassion right now. All I'm saying is it doesn't hurt to have some human compassion and not assume the worst about everyone. If he was involved it will come out in time.

I urge you to watch this live video of him - the one inside - from 10:50 on.

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I have watched it several times, trying to keep an open mind that perhaps he's "just nervous" or "upset" or "stoned".

Each time, I shake my head and go "no way....". Unfortunately, as I'd love for her to be found alive and well.

 

[CrimeDawg123]

I don't think he is actually laughing as in it is funny. People do odd things when anxious. I'm sure he feels pressured and uncomfortable. Im also sure that when he comes across comments- he may need some compassion right now. All I'm saying is it doesn't hurt to have some human compassion and not assume the worst about everyone. If he was involved it will come out in time.

"People do odd things when anxious"
You are absolutely correct. However his behavior falls outside the bell curve.
"not assume the worst about everyone. If he was involved it will come out in time"
Yes, we shall see.

 

[MSangi81]

Link one video of an innocent person LAUGHING when their family is recently missing and I will agree with you.

Is it truly laughing though? To me it seems like he is trying to soothe his own discomfort. I don't know. I live with horrible anxiety. My husband is a veteran and I've seen him do some pretty weird things when anxious. People handle anxiety very differently. People also handle traumatic situations differently.

 

[LietKynes]

I’d like them to ask aBout SC from the time HB was placed in the apartment after school drop off to the time SC called 911, not just 2pm. So far those two times are the only times confirmed by LE, everything else has been SC’s word. And the space between morning drop off and 911 call is almost 12 hours!! So much can happen in that amount of time.

No one coming out in SC’s defense aside from his father has not gone unnoticed by me.

moo

Ita

A potentially large missing piece of time that could be a huge piece of the puzzle.
Sad, I thought we'd have answers by now.

 

[Thespyma]

HA! Only a crazy person would take 35 for that route. The quickest route is down Mopac. 35 is a dumpster fire 24/7. That's part of the problem with not driving this every day. I've been driving that corridor for 30 years.

Mopac is awful! It took me at least an hour or more each way to take my daughter to school from our house near S, Mopac to 2222 where her school was located (Mac FAA). I now live in an apartment ON Mopac (access rd.) and traffic is constant day and night. It has not improved with the latest construction at all.

 

[Seajay]

Yeah, and it makes a big difference whether the purse was in the house or left in an unlocked car.

If I go for a walk in the neighborhood, I take my keys (all my keys are on one ring) and my phone.

I do not, however, ever leave my bag in an unlocked car for a single moment, not even in the driveway. I did that once years ago when dropping a child off at a baby-sitter's front door 20 feet away and my purse was stolen. If I came home with a baby and too much to carry into the house in one load, I would lock the car while I took the first load into the house.

When I go to Costco to get gas, I lock my car while I fill up cuz my purse is in it.

 

[bezel]

SC could have been experiencing psychological shock, from this traumatic event. Surges of adrenaline and stress hormones can cause a person to appear unstable. JMO

 

[Alathea]

It'd crack me up too. /s

Well done.

(Thank goodness for that "/s"!)

 

[UnderstandBlue]

Mopac is awful! It took me at least an hour or more each way to take my daughter to school from our house near S, Mopac to 2222 where her school was located (Mac FAA). I now live in an apartment ON Mopac (access rd.) and traffic is constant day and night. It has not improved with the latest construction at all.

They're all awful - it's Austin But 35 is a nightmare. I've learned to only take the express lane on Mopac going s/n n/s no matter what time of day. No room now for wrecks now that they took the shoulders

 

[MSangi81]

I urge you to watch this live video of him - the one inside - from 10:50 on.

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I have watched it several times, trying to keep an open mind that perhaps he's "just nervous" or "upset" or "stoned".

Each time, I shake my head and go "no way....". Unfortunately, as I'd love for her to be found alive and well.

I've watched it. I find it very emotional. I understand this is a serious thing to happen, but even if he were to laugh at something- or smile does it automatically make him guilty? That seems crazy to me to jump to this sort of conclusion. From everything we know right now- he is completely innocent and a victim himself.

 

[UnderstandBlue]

Mopac is awful! It took me at least an hour or more each way to take my daughter to school from our house near S, Mopac to 2222 where her school was located (Mac FAA). I now live in an apartment ON Mopac (access rd.) and traffic is constant day and night. It has not improved with the latest construction at all.

I only cross the river between 10 and 3. I'm sure your school schedule is right during rush hour. Yuck.

 

[Tuliptiptoe]

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I have watched it several times, trying to keep an open mind that perhaps he's "just nervous" or "upset" or "stoned".

Each time, I shake my head and go "no way....". Unfortunately, as I'd love for her to be found alive and well.

Same. He has no trouble talking about himself and answering questions no one asked (snooze button, unicorn moving, etc) but gets very flustered when asked about Heidi. He’s worried about feeling “weird”, “nervous”, “not natural”. Where is his concern for how his wife and VERY young daughter are feeling?

Some of it does seem like anxious laughter, but sometimes he seems pleased with himself. Watch his demeanor in the interview outside the complex when talking about old high school friends getting in touch with him.

moo

 

[Seajay]

SC could have been experiencing psychological shock, from this traumatic event. Surges of adrenaline and stress hormones can cause a person to appear unstable. JMO

From what I saw, he was delirious from lack of sleep, like he’s living in an alternate universe where nothing is real, nothing seems right, everything is different.

I also think he had done a couple of interviews and he’s had to tell the same story over and over again and he loses his place in the timeline of events, he’s forgetting where he is in the story, what he said last.

When my husband passed away, I sort of did that. It was unreal, it’s like it didn’t happen but everyone around me was acting like it did. I shut down. I knew intellectually he was gone but I couldn’t feel it. It was numb. Maybe that’s what is going on with this dude. IMO