The 10-Part podcast on JonBenet Ramsey is executive produced by Susan Bennett, the tricksy cybersoldier that’s been pushing the dodgy Intruder Theory online for years. In the past she misrepresented who she was [see below links] pretending to be an abused man at one point, in an effort to discredit others.
Now Bennett’s back, in fact she can be heard within the first 70 seconds of the new podcast which promises to be “the most exhaustive investigation” into the Ramsey case in decades.
Do you really believe that?
Listen to episode 1 of The Killing of JonBenet here:
On the 28th of December Frankie Rzucek appeared on YouTube in a 27-clip apparently filmed by his father Frank on his phone. The rant is littered with expletives and refers to those in any doubt about who he is as assholes.
In the video and in the comments, Frankie and Frank sound miffed about trying to participate in a LIVE broadcast, but being repeatedly censored by Armchair Detective. Armchair Detective subsequently posted a weird video in reponse of himself walking without talking through Christmas lights while posing the rhetorical question:
Time to decide?
Elsewhere, Mary Marlowe’s name also came up. Frankie referred to the true intentions of some YouTubers who “[are] not for our family or for justice [but] for views and consiracies [theories]…”
Mary Marlowe wasted no time in uploading an apology titled Frankie I heard you loud and clear before pledging to cover other cases aside from the Watts case.
This is Mary Marlowe’s pledge to stop posting on Christ Watts.
https://youtu.be/Id2uqefGxtQ
Update: TCRS was alerted by folks on the CrimeRocket forums that Frankie Rzucek also referred to CrimeRocket and Shakedown in the comments section below his “Angry Video” posted on YouTube on December 28th, 2019.
Although these comments were later removed, the screengrabs [posted below] were taken before they were taken down. TCRS views these comments and threats of litigation in a very, very serious light.
The protocol for lodging a complaint about any coverage perceived as unfair or inaccurate on CrimeRocket is to 1) use the “Email Tab”, 2) identify yourself, 3) identify the communication as a “Dispute on Accuracy of Content” and 4) to specifically refer [provide the link] to the page and the content that is in dispute.
If the dispute is legitimate, in the interests of full transparency, the complaint and page or pages it refers to as well as the identity of the complainant will be published on CrimeRocket in a separate post. Where appropriate a retraction/update or acknowledgement of an error or edit will be provided as well.
TCRS should not be conflated with other conspiracy sites. TCRS content is rooted in evidence, legitimate sources and generally verifiable information. TCRS will vigorously defend any and all unfounded accusations around so-called inaccuracies and/or slander.
TCRS is a neutral platform with a passionate and committed approach to the truth and truthtelling, to facts and forensic evidence. TCRS is well aware of the legalities surrounding true crime coverage, not just in regards to the Watts case but many others. It is careful to honor these, just as it honors the law and the legal approach to true crime and criminal cases.
In the past, TCRS has also vigorously pursued legal recourse against others who have appropriated its published true crime content, including but not limited to documentary filmmakers. TCRS reserves the right to respond to spurious or misleading accusations and other misrepresentations. TCRS will not be dictated to on who, what or how its true crime coverage will be conducted.
In terms of the grey area, where victims or families may feel their story is being either impinged or misconstrued, or perhaps misrepresented on other channels, TCRS provides the option of a Guest Post section.
In terms of the Watts case, it’s available for those from the Rzuceks or Watts family, or friends or acquaintances who wish to have their voices heard on a credible platform in order to “set the record straight” on a particular issue they’re unhappy with.
TCRS however reserves the right to decide whether submissions of this nature have merit, and whether they should be aired on the TCRS platform, or not.
All in all there are now four books in the 9-Part TWO FACE series available in paperback. By early next year I’m hoping to have a TWO FACE box set available, and eventually another SILVER FOX box set comprising a complementary up-to-date trilogy.
Meanwhile on the Armchair Detective YouTube Channel, plenty of drama about witches, witchcraft and the occult. Go grab your pitchforks!
November 14th, 2019
1. The 2nd video listed below seems to be addressed to TCRS. In other words, it’s a debunk of TCRS’ assessment of Watts’ criminal psychology. What do you think? Is she right?
1. Dr Phil: “If this could happen to this family it could happen to any family.”
TCRS Assessment: Somewhat true, but also not true. The Watts family wasn’t the average family in many respects. Serious crimes, on the other hand, aren’t the exclusive purview of sociopaths, monsters and narcissists. Ordinary people become murderers every day. It’s only once they’re murderers that they lose their status as “ordinary people”.
At 3:54 in the clip below Dr. Phil refers to coverage of the “Silver Fox”. He’s also referred to one not needing to a rocket scientist to see when Watts was lying.
2. The latest Chris Watts conspiracy theory is about a mysterious red car pulling out of the neighbor’s driveway? Could it be an astonishing new twist, or could it be the neighbor’s own car pulling out on her way to gym? Or is the red car actually an alien space ship?
The image below was taken from Black Mesa road around the corner from the Watts home immediately prior to Watts arriving home at about 14:10 on Monday, August 13th, 2018. The conspiracy theorists want you to believe the red car was parked at or near the crime scene for 10 hours following the crime, and that it was somehow actively involved. The alternative? It was a neighborhood car parked on a neighborhood driveway belonging to someone who lives in the neighborhood.
But who wants to believe that when the alternative is so exciting? What if the car belonged to [fill in your preferred suspect]?
November 3rd, 2019
1. The Tenth Biggest WTF Moment in the Chris Watts case
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The residence was initially scheduled to be auctioned off on April 17 over failure to pay principal and interest. However, that date was postponed to September 18, then October 23, and now, has again been moved to January 8….
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At 5:30 in Oxygen’s clip, Officer Matthew James [the same officer who ultimately arrested Watts late on Wednesday night] asked Watts a series of questions. Oxygen did a great job here in Season 3, Episode 1 of Criminal Confessions, by providing two bodycam perspectives during this line of questioning, along with subtitles to the conversation.
JAMES: And what was the conversation this morning you guys had?
WATTS [Swaying]: It was about us selling the house and the separation.
Again, the priority in that answer is telling. First they talked about the house, then the separation. It’s the same exact way he expressed it to Coonrod on the loft landing.
JAMES: And how’d she take that?
WATTS [Still swaying, Officer Coonrod glances down at his phone beside Watts]: We were both very emotional. And…still crying.
Remember what Watts said during the Sermon on the Porch…
“It wasn’t like an argument, but we had an emotional conversation, let’s leave it at that.”
JAMES: And then, did you see her before you went to work?
WATTS: Mm-mmm?
JAMES: Did you say anything to her?
WATTS [Stuttering]: Uh…she went back…like, uh…she told me she was going to a friend’s house…[flaps out his hand].
This correction mid-sentence indicates Watts is giving a rehearsed answer. He was going to say she went back to bed, but decides on the latter version – going to a friend’s house – being more appropriate. The friend story line is supposed to deflect attention – investigative and otherwise – off him.
WATTS [Muttering]: …and…be with the kids. Take the kids over there.
This is another slip, another self-correction. Be with the kids makes no sense, and he corrects it because it’s uncomfortably close to the truth – that he wanted Shan’ann to be with the kids, away, in a grave. And that’s where she is.
Think of the sequence and the subconscious psychology in “be with the kids” versus Shan’ann “taking the kids over there” which she didn’t do. He took them over there.
JAMES: Oh, she told you she’s taking the kids to a friend’s house?
WATTS: Yeah.
JAMES: She didn’t say who though?
WATTS: Yeah. Oh, no. No. [Shakes his head]. No, but she was still in bed when that happened.
This hand gesture, with his hand in a sort of claw, matches his original role-playing gesture in the cubicle at 18:04:56.
The star of this episode is undoubtedly Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Tammy Lee. She’s not only the star, she steals the show. It makes sense because of all the law enforcement folks on the slate in this episode, Tammy Lee is the only one who sat in on the confession. We don’t see or hear from detective Baumhover, and although Coder is referenced in the interrogation footage, we never hear from him firsthand. We do from Lee, and she’s provides a kind of running narration right through. It’s her emotions, her mission for justice – for Shan’ann, Niko, Bella and Celeste – that forms the golden thread through this episode.
In this in-depth analysis of the FULL 1:06:05 EPISODE of Criminal Confessions, I’ll be looking at key insights through 5 x 10-15-minute segments.
FIRST SEGMENT
The first segment deals with Shan’ann’s obsessive use of her phone, and Facebook, and the discovery of her phone.
In the first ten minutes of the episode, the District Attorney Michael Rourke provides voice-over narration for the familiar opening salvos of the Watts case. Nickole arriving at the door, then Officer Coonrod, then Watts returning from work followed by the walk through of the house. They find the beds in disarray but no other signs of disturbance. They find Shan’ann’s medicine and purse in the house, the car and car seats are in the garage. And yet it’s Shan’ann’s and Ceecee’s health issues that don’t gibe with them having gone somewhere without taking medication along. It’s all a little strange.
ROURKE: Shan’ann lived her entire life, through social media, through her phone…It was very unlike Shan’ann not to answer her phone, not to at least send a text. And so I think that alone raised the level of concern, and fear, very early on in this process.
LEE: The people that know Shan’ann, know Shan’ann was very attached to her cell phone.
COONROD: You guys have any kind of issues? Marital, issues, or…?
WATTS: We’re…going through a separation.
COONROD: You guys filed yet or anything, or just talking?
WATTS: No, we were gonna…well…we were gonna have to sell the house. And go through a separation.
COONROD: And how’s that goin’?
WATTS: I…it’s going…
COONROD [Interrupting]: Civil for the most part?
WATTS: Civil, yeah [laughs].
Watts looks down at his phone…
SECOND SEGMENT
The second segment deals with the neighbor, the surveillance footage and the shadows on the driveway.
At 12:09 into the documentary, the narration switches over to another aspect – the nieghbor. At this point the narrator also switches – a little disorientatingly – from the District Attorney to the Deputy District Attorney. And it’s also at this point that Trinastich himself takes us through the driveway aspect of the narrative.
In this short segment – which ends about three minutes later at 15:13 – Trinastich provides a lot more, I feel, than he did on Dr. Oz. Trinastich also comes back later in the documentary to provide some touching details. The part I want to highlight is the shadows on the driveway.
TRINASTICH: I was hoping to catch Shan’ann leaving with Bella and Celeste. I was hoping we might catch somebody coming and picking them up to take them on a playdate like Chris had said. But we had picked up no other motion, or anything like that, coming from their house.
And so now we deal with the meat of this segment, and really the meat-and-potatoes of the YouTube conspiracy nuts that have been making a meal out of a tiny little area of uncertainty. It’s the moment at 12:59 where the documentary plays back all the times Trinastich’s camera catches Watts walking to and from his truck on the side of his truck away from the camera. Each time you see Watts you see a shadow. Interestingly, when juxtaposed in this way you also see the shape of the shadow and how it changes when he’s walking from right to left, and from left to right. When he walks left to right, Watts shadow is very thin, ending in a sharp needle point then widening into a line. Coming from the right it’s thicker.
WRENN: What the video shows is Chris making several trips from the garage, out to the driver’s side of the vehicle, which is from the other side of the car, from the angle of the camera. So you can’t see what if anything is being put in the car per se.
And then it reverts to Watts acting weird next to the screen. He says stuff like this:
The shadows on the driveway really have to be seen moving, rather than from stills. But regardless of this aspect, it’s not mentioned once, anywhere, by anyone in the documentary that Watts appears to pick up a child. There’s not even a hint that that’s the case. There’s also not even a moment where the footage is used to suggest anyone else. Instead, Rourke’s words at this point are quite interesting. He refers to the importance of keeping an open mind, and not succumbing to tunnel vision.
Two things stood out to me about Tammy Lee’s comments. One was her recognition that Watts’ facial expression changed when they started vilifying Shan’ann, and offering her as a scapegoat. Although Watts initially balked at this psychological carrot verbally, it turns out they could easily see – on his face – how much he was willing and able to run with it. And that’s exactly what he did do.
The other thing that stood out was Lee referring to the question that frustrated Watts the most. She’s says it was from Coder, but there were a couple from her where he got pretty angry, and started raising his voice too [related to Tammy not wanting Shan’ann to get a bum rap for a crime she didn’t commit].
TCRS has a particular theory why Watts would have been not only frustrated, but anxious around this idea of the “emotional conversation.” Any ideas what that theory may be?
In POST TRUTH, the 100th True Crime Rocket Science [TCRS] title, the world’s most prolific true crime author Nick van der Leek demonstrates how much we still don’t know in the Watts case. In the final chapter of the SILVER FOX trilogy the author provides a sly twist in a tale that has spanned 12 TCRS books to date. The result may shock or leave you with even more questions.
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