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Discussion | Bill Spedding

Australia knows that BS is a POI.

I am not sure how the historical charges came to light, some say because Jubelin was involved in the investigation all these years ago.

I also read that one of the victims, now grown up, made allegations against him and subsequently filed a police report. The validity of this is unknown to me. It might be idle gossip?

Was it pure coincidence that a report of molestation was filed against him by one of his victims at the same time William disappeared?

Was his current wife ever aware of these historical charges that happened back in the 80's?

Whatever the case may be, BS and his wife had 3 boys in their care. From what I understand, these boys are the children of MS's son, and the daughter in law.

Let's say MS was not aware of these historical charges against BS and only became aware of it when charges were recently made against BS. She would have been enraged knowing that her husband did these things to young children. And to top it, she must have furious that her grandchildren were taken away from her because of his actions.

It is alleged that BS went to a cafe with his wife the morning of William's disappearance. An acquaintance of BS downloaded a receipt from his bank account to show that he paid with a card for their refreshments.

Afterwards, it is alleged that BS went to the school for a award presentation for one of the boys in their care.

He offered the cafe and the school as his alibi for the day.

However, some suggest that it could have been only the wife that went to the cafe and the school alone, and merely used his card to pay for the refreshments creating the illusion that BS was also there.

If MS was not aware of his historical charges that caused her grandchildren to be taken away from them, would she not be outraged and do anything in her power to get them back? To do that, she would have said that she went to the cafe alone, paid with his card, and then went to the school alone. His alibi will be in tatters. By distancing herself from BS, she might be able to have her grandchildren back.

Yet, she remains by his side and support him 100%.

MS has been questioned by the police as well?

However, IF MS knew about the historical charges and has no issue with the grandchildren been taken away, can we then assume that she is covering for him and lying about his alibi or be aware of his possible involvement with the disappearance?

If she is covering for him, is it possible that she might have first hand knowledge of the abduction or even be involved? Whatever the case may be, she lost her grandchildren in the process, a issue that must be hard for her to overcome, just for the sake of SP.

My conclusion to this is that MS will not stand by a man who is the reason for her grandchildren being taken away. Blood is thicker than water and she lost these children.

Forensic profiler paints picture of William Tyrrell's kidnapper

Sunday, 13 September 2015 12:50:57 AM

A criminal analyst, attached to the police strike force investigating the disappearance of toddler William Tyrrell, has cast light on the behaviour of his suspected kidnapper.

Yesterday marked the 12 month anniversary of William’s disappearance.

The then three year was playing on the back verandah of his grandmother’s home at Kendall, on the state’s mid north coast, when detectives believe he wandered into the path of his suspected abductor.

Psychological profiler, Sarah Yule, is a key member of Strike Force Rosann, also comprising detectives from the State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad and the Mid North Coast Local Area Command.

Dr Yule is the Police Force’s Senior Forensic Psychologist and manager of its Behavioural Science Team, attached to the Forensic Services Group.

“With the investigation focussing on a possible abduction, there was only a narrow window of opportunity to take William,” she said.

“In addition, the area where William vanished is on the edge of the township near a dead-end street.

“So if no-one but William’s parents and grandmother knew in advance of his visit to Kendall, then you would have to have some other reason to be there and take that opportunity; either visiting, residing or working in the vicinity.

The head of the investigation, Detective Inspector Gary Jubelin, added the kidnapper would have taken some tremendous risks.

“The kidnapping occurred on a Friday around 10.30am,” Detective Inspector Jubelin said.

“It was broad daylight and whoever abducted him risked being seen from the balcony of William’s grandmother’s home as well as neighbouring properties,” he said.

Detective Inspector Jubelin said the inclusion of a behavioural specialist on the strike force has been invaluable.

Dr Yule has almost 20 years’ experience working on major crime cases in New South Wales and has studied with FBI-trained experts and behavioural specialists from the United Kingdom and Europe.

“In cases like these we need to get into the headspace of the person who took William, why they did it, what makes them tick and that’s where Sarah comes in,” Detective Inspector Jubelin said.

“On this first anniversary of William’s disappearance, we would like to make another appeal for anyone with information about the case to contact us.

“We would particularly like to hear about anyone who has been quite deliberate in avoiding the publicity about William’s abduction or in contrast, anyone who has been uncharacteristically, overly interested in the case.”

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Toddler William Tyrrell’s disappearance still haunts Kendall residents almost a year later

September 6, 2015

MARION Dalton regularly enjoys a midmorning coffee with her daughter while sitting on the veranda of her Benaroon Dr, Kendall, home — giving her a perfect view of the street where young William Tyrrell happily played.

Iona Bligh often jogs down that same stretch of bitumen and past the nondescript brick home owned by little William’s grandparents.

After a busy morning running her kids to school, Anne-Maree Sharpley was desperate for some quiet time and sat down with a book.

Lydene Heslop also had a hectic morning grocery shopping and was unloading bags from her car before taking them inside.

On that fateful morning of September 12 last year, chance and life conspired to ensure people who would normally have a bird’s-eye view as William and his sister played in the sunshine weren’t there.

Shortly after 10.30am, three-year-old William vanished.

It’s these sliding-doors ­moments that haunt the residents of semi-rural Kendall, who next week will mark a year since the much-loved ­little boy was abducted.

“My daughter lives around the corner and she comes around here and we sit on this veranda having a cup of coffee nearly every morning in the sunshine … that morning she phoned me and said she’d decided to go to my son’s place, so we weren’t out here, so we saw nothing,” Mrs Dalton said.

“That was the one day we weren’t sitting here. Of course it’s on our mind every day … of course it is. It’s changed the whole village.

“I’ve got grandchildren and I can’t allow them to go anywhere without me watching because you just don’t know what’s happened to William.”

The one question that plagues the residents of Kendall is: How did the culprit or culprits get away with it?

Almost tragically, they ­believe a cruel set of circumstances conspired to give someone the opportunity to snatch William without being seen by a single witness.

At 10.35am on September 12, a number of people could have been expected to be there to stop William being taken.

Except on that day, at that time, they weren’t.

Mother Anne-Maree Sharpley, who lives across the road from William’s grandmother’s house, was sitting ­inside reading a book before deciding to go outside her house to “get some sun”.

“I didn’t hear anything, so if the person who took him came down Benaroon Dr, they did it without panicking or driving fast or taking off like an idiot, because I would’ve heard.”

But by the time she did go outside, William had already been taken.

“I’d taken the kids to school and came home and cleaned up and sat down in the quiet with no TV and was just reading my book,” Ms Sharpley said.

“No cars, no cries, no nothing, it was just quiet.

“I’d actually just got a drink and was walking outside to sit in the sun and (William’s mother) was outside the gate.”

Judy Wilson, whose fence sits just 10m from where William was taken, heard him and his sister playing earlier that morning before she headed into town to run some errands.

When she returned, the street was in chaos.

“I wasn’t home and my husband wasn’t home. The only thing I was able to tell police was that I heard the children playing but didn’t see them … I just heard kids laughing and you could tell they were little children,” Mrs Wilson said.

“I don’t think it was an opportunistic grab from someone who just happened to be here ­because we don’t get strangers wandering around.”

Another Benaroon Dr resident, Lydene Heslop, who lives further down the street, had been grocery shopping and ­returned home minutes before William vanished.

She saw nothing out of the ordinary when she drove into the street and pulled into her driveway.

She said she was unloading groceries from her car when William was snatched sometime after 10.30am, just metres away from her home where her youngest child was inside.

She said at 11.30am there was a knock on the door and it was Anne-Maree from up the road and William’s mother.

“I didn’t hear anything, so if the person who took him came down Benaroon Dr, they did it without panicking or driving fast or taking off like an idiot, because I would’ve heard,” Ms Heslop said.

“That’s pretty good luck. Especially at 10.30am on a Friday when there should only be one kid on the street, which is mine.”

Another mum, Iona Bligh, who lives in the next town and drives her kids to Kendall’s school every day, regularly ran up Benaroon Dr as part of her daily exercise routine.

But on that day, she decided at the last minute she had enough time to drive to a popular mountain track in the township instead, before meeting friends for coffee at the local cafe.

“I’d drop my kids at school and run down Benaroon Dr. I was going to run it that morning before I met some girlfriends for coffee at Miss Nellie’s ... the only reason
I didn’t is because I dropped my son at school five minutes early,” Ms Bligh said.

“I kick myself every day.”

The mystery surrounding William’s abduction has not only baffled those closest to the scene, but also the state’s homicide squad, with its ­detectives revisiting the street just last month to go over the neighbours’ testimony once again.

Questions relating to any cars in the area dominated the conversations, as did questions around anyone seen ­visiting the street in the months before the ­abduction, including electricians, couriers and garbage collectors.

William’s grandmother has since moved out of the street, having sold the house to a mature couple just before William’s abduction.

While the town still waits for answers as to what happened to the little boy, parents and grandparents now fear leaving their children unsupervised for even a minute.

PODCAST: How William disappeared

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Caravan park searched in the hunt for missing toddler William Tyrrell

January 22, 2015

A fibro cabin in a caravan park on the NSW mid-north coast has been searched by police investigating the disappearance of toddler William Tyrell after residents reported hearing cries of a child in the weeks after the three-year-old vanished.

Police searched a cabin at The Haven caravan park at Laurieton, just south of Port Macquarie at the end of last week.

The cabin is one of many properties searched since the three-year-old disappeared from his grandmother's home in the neighbouring town of Kendall on September 12.

Revelations of the caravan park search come after homicide detectives raided a home at nearby Bonny Hills and a unit above a set of shops at neighbouring Laurieton on Tuesday, seizing a mattress and computer equipment.

The owner of the caravan park told Fairfax Media that a resident had called police after hearing a child crying in a cabin where a middle-aged couple from Victoria stayed from September 28 to October 9.

"They heard an infant crying and they thought it was coming from that cabin," the owner said.

"We don't have kids, [nor are there] many children in the park; they are all retired here, so it is an unusual sound," he said.

"Police came here. They wanted to have a look through even though I'd been through that cabin since. We went down because obviously there might have been a body in there or [the police] thought there could be."

The owner said he gave the address of the couple to police and "away they went".

An excavator was on Wednesday at the Bonny Hills house, where police were also emptying a septic tank as officers continued their search of the single-level house in Wandoo Place.

Homicide detectives have spent more than 24 hours searching the semi-rural property, where an elderly couple live.

A grease trap and septic service truck pulled up to the house about 8am on Wednesday.

Detectives were instructing a man and he was later seen putting a large hose into the ground near the front of the house.

Police are sifting through a mountain of bark a few metres from the septic tank as dogs on the property continue to howl.

Two officers were seen using rakes and picking up large clumps with their hands as plainclothes detectives watched.

Resident Dean Pollard said the couple are the guardians of at least three grandchildren.

He said at least 20 police officers and six cars were parked outside the home since 7am on Tuesday.

Next-door neighbour Hannah-Jayne, 18, said she was deeply disturbed that police were searching the couple's home in relation to the toddler's disappearance.

She told Fairfax Media she did not know the couple that well but said one of their grandchildren often played with her dog Wilfred.

"It's really scary," she said. "I hope they find him [William] soon, just hopefully not next door to my house."

Another neighbour said she had met the man and two of his grandsons for the first time at a street Christmas party last year.

It is believed the couple rent the property and moved in a few years ago, neighbours say.

The couple are believed to own a business at the nearby town of Laurieton that was raided on Tuesday.

Spider-Man suit

William vanished without a trace from his grandmother's home in Kendall, just south of Port Macquarie, on September 12.

He was wearing a Spider-Man suit and playing in the backyard with his sister when he disappeared, as their mother made a cup of tea.

A 10-kilometre search of the area surrounding the house failed to find any trace of William.

The search lasted weeks and involved the NSW Police, Rural Fire Service, the State Emergency service and more than 200 locals.

Investigators have searched every corner of the 21 houses in the bushland estate where William was last seen.

Commander of the mid north coast region Superintendent Paul Fehon said recently that police were looking at a number of scenarios.

Superintendent Fehon said that, if the little boy had some form of misadventure in nearby bushland, police would have found something by now.

"We are completely open to any possibility, including human intervention," he said in an interview with Fairfax Media.

"If that has occurred, somebody knows something."

Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/nsw/caravan-park-searched-in-the-hunt-for-missing-toddler-william-tyrell-20150121-12ux0y.html#ixzz3oDvDr5ga

Tradesman's rural home becomes focus of search for missing boy

7 April 2015

Forensic teams searching for missing three-year-old William Tyrrell have searched the rural home of a tradesman who is understood to have given a quote at the boy's grandmother's house just days before he disappeared.

William vanished from his grandmother's house in Kendall, about 10 kilometres from Laurieton on the NSW mid-north coast, on September 12. He had been playing with his sister at the end of a cul-de-sac located near bushland.

On Wednesday detectives carried out a search at a rural property in Bonny Hills, 20 kilometres from Kendall.

The property is leased by 63-year-old William Harrie Spedding, a pawn shop owner and white goods repairman.

An excavator was called in and the property's septic tank was drained. Police seized a number of items from the home.

Mr Spedding is understood to have given a washing machine repair quote to William's grandmother four days before the boy disappeared.

William was not staying at the home at the time.

On Tuesday police executed a search warrant at a Laurieton pawn shop which is believed to be operated by Mr Spedding.

A small mattress and computer equipment were among the items seized

While police say they have spoken to a number of people about William's disappearance, no-one has been detained or charged.

It is understood an anonymous phone call helped lead them to the Bonny Hills property.

Mr Spedding had posted three messages about William's disappearance on his Facebook page.

On September 13, a day after the boy went missing, Mr Spedding shared a photo of William with the message: "Keep a lookout for him".

On September 30, he shared a photo with the message, "Still missing so everyone keep looking," while on December 2 he shared another photo, saying: "Don't give up looking".

Laurieton local Kerry Buttsworth owns a butchery across the road and said he saw one of Tuesday's searches unfold.

"We saw them taking a lot of gear out of the place. There was computers," he said.

"I believe there was a mattress taken out, and there was quite a few bags of stuff taken out. [It was] put in a police car and taken away."

A caravan in Laurieton was also inspected after reports an infant was heard crying there around the time William disappeared.

The ABC has been told a man and a woman from Victoria had hired the caravan and their details have been passed on to detectives.

Superintendent Paul Fehon from Port Macquarie police said the raids were not considered to be a major breakthrough.

"This is a line of enquiry that we are taking as part of the normal investigation phase for an investigation of this nature," he said.

"A number of items have been taken from both premises and they will be forensically examined as part of a normal police investigation.

"Investigators searched a number of premises in the Laurieton and surrounding areas [on Tuesday] as part of the ongoing investigation into the search for young William Tyrell.

"Forensic investigators will continue a search at one of those premises [on Wednesday]. Police will be continuing to follow up all aspects of investigations."

"This is a line of enquiry that we are taking as part of the normal investigation phase for an investigation of this nature," he said.

"A number of items have been taken from both premises and they will be forensically examined as part of a normal police investigation.

"Investigators searched a number of premises in the Laurieton and surrounding areas [on Tuesday] as part of the ongoing investigation into the search for young William Tyrell.

"Forensic investigators will continue a search at one of those premises [on Wednesday]. Police will be continuing to follow up all aspects of investigations."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-21/tradesmans-home-the-focus-of-search-for-william-tyrrell/6029822

December 21, 2014

Homicide detectives have taken over the investigation into the disappearance of three-year-old NSW boy William Tyrell, heightening fears over his eventual fate.

William vanished from his grandparents' home in Kendall on the Mid North Coast on September 12.

However, homicide squad Detective Superintendent Michael Willing said there was no evidence yet to suggest the little boy was more likely to have been murdered, News Corp has reported.

"We want to do a thorough investigation to determine what’s happened to William and obviously we need to consider the worst case scenario," Det Supt Willing said.

"But we have no evidence to suggest any particular scenario at this stage."

William's disappearance galvanised the Kendall community, with volunteers turning up in droves to help police and emergency services in their hunt.

CCTV footage from local cameras has been examined and it has previously been reported that police checked in with all registered sex offenders living in the area, but no trace of William has yet been found.


http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/12/21/02/56/homicide-squad-takes-over-search-for-william-tyrell

Fears grow missing boy William Tyrell may have been abducted from Kendall

September 17, 2014

Police have widened their search for a three-year-old boy missing on the NSW mid-north coast to any unknown people who may have come into the tiny town of Kendall.

Five days after William Tyrell disappeared from the front yard of his grandparents' house on Benaroon Drive, police launched Strike Force Rosann on Tuesday and appealed to anyone who may have seen unknown people or vehicles in the area.

Fairfax Media believes that one line of inquiry is a man who asked staff in a local shop for directions to Benaroon Drive on Friday, before William went missing.

The boy was last seen at 10.30am wearing a Spiderman suit. His older sister, mother and grandmother had gone inside for a matter of minutes when he vanished.

Hundreds of SES, RFS and local volunteers scoured thick bushland on Tuesday and searched nearby dams and waterways for a second time; however, there has been no trace of the boy.

Sniffer dogs and cadaver dogs found no scent in the yard, fuelling fears he may have been abducted.

The Sex Crimes Squad and investigators with expertise in unexplained disappearances of young children joined a team of 30 investigators on Tuesday.

Police are examining possible sightings from as far away as Casino.

Superintendent Paul Fehon said it was "totally baffling that there's no lead at this time".

"We would have thought we would have had some indication of something," he said.

Shop owners on Kendall's main street said they had been told not to comment on a man who asked for directions to Benaroon Drive.

Family friend Nicole, speaking on behalf of William's parents, described William as a "happy, cheeky, adventurous" boy who "loved everything to do with Spider-Man", fire engines and police cars.

Nicole said William had not been known to wander away on his own before. His parents were "devastated", and his sister knew her brother was "lost", she said.

Janelle Nosworthy, owner of Miss Nellie's cafe, said community members were feeling "discouraged" as the search concluded with no results for a fifth day.

"It's a very close country town and it has really struck a chord; but people are getting a little bit discouraged now," she said.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/fears-grow-missing-boy-william-tyrell-may-have-been-abducted-from-kendall-20140916-10hqb0.html#ixzz3oDpZLfwG

Investigators focus on CCTV footage in the search for missing toddler William Tyrrell

Investigators focus on CCTV footage in the search for missing toddler William Tyrrell

15 November 2014

POLICE investigating the baffling disappearance of toddler William Tyrell from the small town of Kendall are focusing their investigation on CCTV footage taken from the local tennis club.

Investigators will today set up at the Kendall Tennis Club with still images taken of all cars captured on the club’s CCTV camera on the morning William went missing in the hope of identifying any suspicious vehicles.

Port Macquarie Superintendent Paul Fehon, who is leading the investigation into the three-year-old’s disappearance nine weeks ago, said police were asking everyone who drove past the Graham St club before 11am on September 12 to come forward and identify their vehicle.

“We’re trying to match them up to see if we can eliminate the local cars and then see if we’ve got cars that are unusual,” Supt Fehon said.

“Unfortunately, it’s not a head on or behind shot where we would have number plates, it’s only descriptions of cars.

“We’ll look at the side profile of a car and if we can’t find identify some then we may have a new line of inquiry.”

William was last seen wearing a Spiderman suit in the front yard of his grandmother’s home on Benaroon Drive in Kendall, south of Port Macquarie.

William’s sudden disappearance sparked a massive search of the surrounding bush involving more than 300 local volunteers, SES officers, rural fire service personnel and police. The first thought was that he had wandered off alone into the bush.

But the complete lack of evidence, including tracks, scent trails or pieces of clothing, has led police to believe he may have been abducted.

Supt Fehon said William’s family still held out hope of finding him alive.

“They still really hope he can be returned to them,” he said.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/investigators-focus-on-cctv-footage-in-the-search-for-missing-toddler-william-tyrell/story-fni0cx12-1227124180019

People Say Exactly What They Mean

     Statement Analysis is a very useful interviewing technique for detecting deception on the part of either the suspect or the victim. It's the process of examining a person's words to see exactly what they're saying.

   It's based on the principle that people do not lie. Most people want to tell the truth. Even liars will tell a partial truth. It's easier to tell a partial truth than to completely fabricate a statement. They just won't tell the whole truth.

    Statement analysis is based on several principles. The primary one is that most people want to tell the truth, even when they are lying. It's been theorized that the psychological ID part of our personality, the subconscious primitive part, tends to be truthful at all times. If we're being deceptive, a conflict occurs with our ID and it creates stress.

   "Vrij and Winkel (1993) stated that the deception framework includes both emotional and cognitive components." When a person lies, this causes a conflict within ourselves and creates stress (emotional). That stress then triggers a sympathetic nervous system to act, as part of the "Fight or Flight" syndrome. 

     The sympathetic nervous system activates responses within our bodies that we can't control, such as pupil dilation, blood pressure, respiratory rates, and perspiration.

    The sympathetic response will trigger the cognitive part of the deceptive process. The person is then aware of their nervousness "and will thereby attempt to limit and control any behavioral cues they perceive as being created by the stressor (Vrij, 1994)." This becomes apparent through verbal statements and unconscious body language."

 Statement analysis requires that the investigator obtain the suspect's own words, unaltered and uninfluenced by the investigator. Suspects can either write their statements or dictate them to someone else (Hess 1997).

 A technique called SCAN is "based on the assumption that everyone wants to tell the truth, but not necessarily the whole truth."

  "Truthful people will speak or write differently than people who are being deceptive." SCAN is a way to obtain information and detect deception, directly from the words that people use." Most people want to tell you everything.

   According to LSISA, SCAN looks at every statement as truthful. "People don't lie.They want to tell us everything, but they don't always say everything. And what they don't say can reveal the whole truth - the truth that the person wanted to conceal."

  In analyzing written and verbal statements, "The investigator focuses on the words, lack of words used, body language and / or handwriting in the response from a witness or subject to determine truthfulness instead of focusing on the facts that are stated."

  Statement analysis is a two step process. First, the investigators have to determine what is the norm. Then they look for any deviation from that norm. Truthful statements differ from fabricated ones.

Parts of Speech

   According to FBI special agent, Susan H. Adams, M.A., in her article: Statement Analysis. What Do Suspects Words Really Reveal?, parts of speech are the foundation of statement analysis.

   Investigators look at the different parts of speech: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs. When people are being deceptive, it shows up in their use of the parts of speech. If their statement differs from the norm expected, red flags go up.

 For example, Susan Smith had originally claimed that her two boys had been abducted. During the investigation, Susan stated,

 "My children wanted me. They needed me. And now I can't help them." Notice how she used the past tense then switched back to the present tense. That's because she knew they were already dead.

 Scott Peterson is another classic example of deceptive people using the wrong verb tense when making a statement. He made the mistake of referring to his wife in the past tense, while she was supposedly only missing at the time. 

Statement Cues

•    Emotions - truthful people tend to be very emotional when giving a statement. They're not rehearsed and they tend to use words like: stolen, theft, fraud. Deceptive persons will be very controlled. They tend to use words like: missing, gone, etc.

    An attorney once told me that you can always tell when a person is being truthful because they will show righteous indignation when falsely accused of something. Righteous indignation is driven by emotion.

 When we are wrongly accused of something, our emotions soar. We become highly indignant. We intend to prove our innocence. A truthful person who becomes a suspect in a criminal investigation is very quick to demand a lie detector test. 

• Stuttering or repeating words.
• Answering a question with a question - stalling for time.
• Hesitation marks - stalling for time. Um, UGH, Let's see.

   Statement Basics

   Pronouns
 
       Most people tend to use the first person, past tense when describing events in the past. The truthful person's use of pronouns will be correct. The deceptive person will deviate from the norm.

  Most people use the word, "I". "I did this". "I did that". A deceptive person will often drop the word "I" from his statement at important moments, such as discussing what occurred at the time of the crime.

Example: I woke up at 6:30. I took a shower. I got dressed. Drove to the store. I got to work about 8:00.

Notice how the word "I" is dropped suddenly, then picked back up. Most deceptive people will try to distance themselves from the event, so they drop the pronoun "I".
   The same thing goes for possessive pronouns. A guilty person will try to distance himself from the event by dropping the possessive pronoun. "My gun" suddenly becomes "The gun".

  

 The Pronoun "We"

    This is another important pronoun to scrutinize when analyzing statements. The norm is for people to use the first person singular pronoun when referring to themselves. When referring to two people, the norm is to use the word "we". It denotes relationship and togetherness.

 Either the overuse, or the omision, of the word "we", should raise red flags (first person, pleural). For example, if a person accuses someone of abducting and raping her, the use of the word "we" would be suspicious.

   Sexual assault investigators have noted, through their experience, that true rape victims tend to use the word "He" and "I", not "we". If the accuser uses the term "we" and denies knowing the accused, then the statement is considered to be false.

  

 Noun Analysis -  Again just look for any changes from the norm because "a change of language reflects a change in reality" [Adams]. If a husband, while making a statement, keeps referring to "My wife" then suddenly switches to "Susan", at a crucial moment of the event, a red flag is raised.

Social introductions are another clue. Most of us indicate a close relationship by naming the person. "My husband Tom" rather than just "He". The statement reflects a closeness with the use of the word "we". To omit that word would indicate distance. If a husband or wife is found murdered, and the spouse omits using the word "we", suspicions are raised.

  

 Lack of Conviction

     When analyzing a statement, a person's lack of conviction could be suspicious. If the person keeps stating, "I don't remember" or "I don't recall", red flags are raised. The use of qualifiers such as "I think" or "I believe" or "To the best of my recollection" also raises suspicion. " ... the person giving the statement is avoiding commitment, and warning bells should ring in the investigator's ears." [Adams]

  

 Statement Balance

    When reviewing a statement, it's important to look at the overall balance of the statement. A truthful statement is divided into thirds:

• What happened before the incident
• What happened at the time of the event
• What happened after the event

   "The more balanced the three parts of the statement, the greater the probability that the statement is true. If any part of a statement is incomplete or missing altogether, then the statement is probably false." [Adams] The statement is divided up into the number of written lines.

   For example, if there are 60 lines total, there should be 20 lines devoted to each third when describing the event. If you have a statement which is out of balance, such as too much before the event and very little afterwards, this indicates deception.

 Changes in verb tense: This is another big clue. Most of us speak in the first person past tense when relating a past event. A deceptive person will often use the wrong verb tense when describing an event that occurred in the past, switching instead to the present tense. Most verb changes indicate that the statement is being fabricated.

Time - Time is an important element in the subject's statement. It can give us clues as to how much information the subject has provided. Truthful people will provide a logical statement that follows a chronological time frame. Deceptive people often won't. Gaps in a statement indicate deception. When a person says, "I don't remember," they are often concealing a critical detail. Any missing time elements should raise red flags.

Extraneous Information - Deceptive statements will often have a great deal of extraneous information in them that have nothing to do with the event in question. The deceptive subject may put in detail after detail, leading up to the occurrence of the event, then suddenly gloss over the event itself, telling very little about it. Most deceptive statements (80-90%) show the main event pushed to the very end, then abruptly stop.

   According to the article, Statement Analysis, by Ralph Thomas of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) " Extraneous information and information presented out of order in relationship to time" should raise red flags.

   "The more disorganized an account, the more the account is out of order chronologically, and the more extraneous information is found in an account, the more the account becomes suspect."

  

 The Number Three

     Studies have shown that the number three is the liars number. When deceptive people have to come up with a number, they'll usually pick the number three. I was kidnapped by three men. I fired three shots. I was raped by three men.

     The following example is quoted from author Wesley Clark's article: An Application of Statement Analysis ( L.I.E.S.):

"FATHER:

 12/19/00 I woke up got dress I fed the baby.

about 8:45 am brought the baby to nannys and then went

to work. got home about 5:00 pm she was a little

fussy brought her home and fed her then she went

to sleep she woke up Jane fed her and then she went

back to sleep woke up about 6:00 am fed her

She went back to sleep woke back up about 10:30 am

Fed her and the she went back to sleep she woke

up about 3:00 pm fed her some pee's and she thouh

up and stop breathing. I look at her and can tell

that she wasent breathing good I look at her a could

tell that her tounge was rolled up so I put my

finger in and pulled her tounge back out and the

she went limp so I ran to the nanny's house we jump

in the van and came to general hospital."

   

 Notice how the father drops the pronoun "I" as well as omitting the possessive pronoun, "My". He doesn't call his child by name or even "My baby". It's, "Thebaby". There is no attachment there. Notice also how he switches from past tense to present tense and back again.

  Marilyn Sheppard's Murder

   The statements made by Richard Eberling, in the Marilyn Sheppard murder investigation, are a good example of the subconscious coming through. Quoted from the article, Marilyn Sheppard's Murder, by Mark McClish:

     When Eberling was questioned about Marilyn's death, he responded, "

 "It's a very distasteful subject and I would like to move on. It's not true. Never was and I had no intention. I've never killed anybody. That's not my nature."

  Not only was Eberling trying to distance himself, but he essentially confessed to the killing with his statement, "I had no intention."

  In 1997, NBC Dateline interviewed Eberling. He had this to say:

      "I did not....You don't know that I killed anyone."

  People say exactly what they mean!

  Truthful vs. Deceptive Behavior

           Truthful                                             

• Nervous at first ; calms down as interview progresses
• Anger; specific                                      
• Composed attitude; self assured                                
• Wants you to know he's innocent                  
• Cooperates with investigation
• appears without an attorney
• Willing to prove innocence
• Answers questions directly                                        
• Willing to take lie detector test                  
• Open; Will volunteer info                
• Unyielding & adamant in denials
• Willl sit forward in the chair & ask what you want to know    

    Deceptive

• Nervous at first; calms down as interview progresses
• Angry; nonspecific; won't calm down
• Overly anxious; seems confused
• Overly polite
• Defensive
• Will be quiet; afraid he will say something to get him in trouble
• Evasive in answers
• Non commital in response
• Complains; uncooperative
• Guarded about what they tell you
• Have to give a reason why they don't cooperate
• Defeated; slumps head forward

IN THEIR WORDS: William Tyrrell's parents talk of the day their boy went missing and the 'living nightmare' they endure

IN THEIR WORDS: William Tyrrell's parents talk of the day their boy went missing and the 'living nightmare' they endure

The parents of missing toddler William Tyrrell have spoken for the first time about their son’s disappearance.

In a 22-minute interview released by NSW Police today, William’s parents – who cannot be named for legal reasons – revealed their torment after their ‘vibrant’ child vanished while playing at his grandmother’s house in Kendall, on the state’s mid-north coast, in September last year.

In the heartbreaking account, the parents stress their belief he was abducted from someone outside the community, and also reveal:

•  William was "absolutely beside himself with happiness" the day he disappeared.

•  The moment they realised he was gone, his mother said, “I just thought, I can’t hear him, I can’t see him, where is he?”

•  It was the family’s first visit to William’s grandmother since his grandfather died seven months earlier

•  His mother does not believe a member of the Kendall community is involved: “I can’t see a true local who knows my family choosing to take my child”.

•  The father does not believe the boy went missing in nearby bushland: “I trod those grounds myself for three or four days, he would have been found”.

•  Both parents dismissed the suggestion the boy had wandered off: “He knows his limitations, he’s cautious”.

•  Both pleaded for the return of their boy: “It doesn’t have to end this way – just bring him back”.

Police have stressed that while the parents cannot be identified, they are not persons of interest in the case.

The interview was conducted by a member of NSW Police Media.

READ THE FULL INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT BELOW:

KEY:

P = PoliceD = DadM  = Mum

P: Guys, this remains a high profile case, and it’s fair to say everyone’s feeling for you at the moment. But they can’t walk a mile in your shoes, because it’s not happening to them. In your words, how horrendous has this process been?

M: I don’t think there are words. It just, it’s the never ending nightmare. We wake up…we just relive it. I just can’t believe it’s happened. We just don’t have our boy, we just…we have no idea where he is, we don’t know who’s got him, we don’t know what’s happening to him, we know nothing about it - we just want it to be over.

P: That’s part of the battle isn’t it, one minute he’s there, next minute he’s vanished?

D: Yeah.

M: Yeah, it’s surreal…I’m living somebody’s else’s world, I’m in somebody else’s life.

D: It is like living a nightmare.

M: You wake up and it’s just, it’s just always here. You go about your normal day, it’s just always there. It’s never away from you, it’s constant.

P: Because you can’t extinguish that love for your boy, you’re caring parents - you’re wondering is he okay?

M: Never, never. And I have to watch, we have to watch his sister learn to play, and learn to be an only child, it’s heartbreaking.

P: When did you guys last see him?

M: That morning, on the 12th at Mum’s place.

D: About 10.15am.

P: Can you give a bit of background, what was he doing?

M: We’d gone up to visit Mum and Dad, well Mum because Dad had passed away, I keep calling it Mum and Dad’s, we’d gone to visit, it was a surprise visit.

D: We left early.

M: We left early the night before, surprised them [the kids], surprised Nanna.

P: Can you tell us what William was doing at his Nanna’s place?

M: He was playing, he was having fun, he was in his Spiderman outfit playing Daddy Tiger, I mean, it was fun, it was just normal.

D: He was doing what he would normally do.

P: And it was a surprise visit to Nanna’s?

M: Yeah we’d actually planned to go on the Friday, but we ended up the Thursday, leaving earlier, and it was a surprise for Mum and it was a surprise for the kids to go before, because they love going to Nanna’s, yeah it was a complete surprise.

P: So the kids had no idea either?

M: None, none, they were over the moon, we told them in the car once we picked them up.

D: They were excited.

M: And they were screaming with delight, because we get to do something special, which is stop at McDonalds on the way which we don’t normally do. It was just an adventure, a family going to see family.

P: And when you arrived the kids no doubt jumped out of the car and raced to see Nanna?

M: Yeah.

D: Absolutely, it’s just as exciting for Nanna as it was for the kids, she loves seeing the kids.

P: When did things start to go awry?

M: Well, when I realised that William was missing, I just, I think back to that moment where I just went, I can’t hear him, why, why can’t I hear him, and I walked around, seriously it was just 2, 3 metres away from where we were sitting, and I’ve just walked out, and I just see nothing. I see nothing, I hear nothing, I’m speechless. I’m walking around in a circle on the spot thinking, where is he, why can’t I see him, and I’m yelling out, “William, where are you, you need to talk to Mummy, tell me where you are, I can’t see you, I can’t hear you, where are you?”, and he was nowhere, and I’m just standing there thinking, how could he just disappear because he just disappeared and I don’t get it, I don’t get it.

P: Did you think initially that oh, kids being kids, he’s in a Spiderman uniform, he’s probably just climbing trees?

M: No it’s not William, it’s not William, he doesn’t do that. On that morning, before he went missing, I’d put him in a tree because Mum’s got some good climbing trees, and he was in it, and he said, “No Mummy it’s too high, get me down,” and I said to him “Why, why don’t you try?”, and he said “No Mummy too high, get me down,” so he wouldn’t be in a tree, it’s not in him.

P: So he’d pick a spot to play in and stay there?

D: Yeah he’d stay within distance knowing how far away he was from us at any given point in time.

M: Yeah, yeah, he always had us in earshot or eyesight.

D: Or he’d do the check in, he’d come back around from the corner or checking out a spot, and come and just check how far away he was from you, just do the check in.

M: He’s not a wanderer, not a child to run away. He’s got a really good sense of adventure, but he’s got a really good understanding of his limitations. He’s not a kid that would just run into something, he would stop and think, he would consider what he would do before he’d do anything else.

P: Not spontaneous?

M: Oh he’s spontaneous in terms of humour, and fun.

P: So in that case, when you’ve looked around the grounds for him and couldn’t find him, you would have thought, something’s not right here?

M: I thought that immediately, I had a vision in my head, I don’t know why, but I had a vision in my head – somebody - I can’t explain it, somebody reached over and I sort of feel like they’ve gone “clump” on his shoulders, picked him up and moved him on because to me that’s the only way, the only way I can explain for him not to be there. I don’t get it, I don’t - how can a little boy, how can a 3-year-old boy just vanish [clicks fingers] into nothing? Because that’s exactly what it was like.

P: I think it’s fair to say the community has asked that very question, particularly on a semi-rural property, kids don’t just disappear.

M: No they don’t, they don’t. My brothers have brought their kids up around there, they would run those streets with absolutely no fear. Every other house on that street with kids, those kids are on that street with absolutely no fear. There’s no reason for them not to be safe at Nanna’s house.

P: So you raised the alarm immediately?

M: Well I raced around for a bit, then went down and got the neighbour to help, then D came back, because he had a meeting.

D: I had a meeting and I arrived back and there was a bit of confusion if William was with me, because he’s always looking out for me and my car, and I was on my way back, and I’d arrived back and been asked if William was with me and I said no, then I immediately got out of the car and started looking around, and within 5 minutes we raised the alarm and I think I ran the perimeter of the whole street within about 10-15 minutes, and I mean, he wouldn’t, he’s not a wanderer, he wouldn’t even cross the street by himself. He wouldn’t go far.

P: Parents know their own kids, don’t they.

M: He wouldn’t do it, he just wouldn’t do it, it’s not in him, even if somebody was to entice him across the road he wouldn’t do it, he’d run back, it’s just not in his character to go blindly with people. Every mother says that about their child and I realise that kids can be tempted, I understand that completely. William’s personality was, “I’m interested but I‘m cautious”, like he didn’t trust freely. I can’t see him doing it.

D: He was cautious, he’d cower away as little children would normally do, but he had this instinct about him about doing the right and wrong thing.

P: It’s a tough question, but when did you first suspect abduction?

M: In my mind it was immediate, because there was no way in the world William would have gone into that bush, it’s too thick, there’s lantana all through it. There is no way in the world he would have gone into that bush.

P: Being a cautious boy he would have thought twice?

M: It was in my head and even Mum, while I was talking with Mum while we were waiting and I was doing the frantic thing and running through the house and opening up cupboards and all sorts of stuff, I just kept going through my head, somebody’s taken him, I can’t, in my mind it was the only logical explanation for what could have happened.

D: A child in that situation, in that circumstance, in those surrounds would not just disappear into thin air. I mean I had my doubts, I did not know what to believe at the time, especially the first hour or two I didn’t know what to believe but I guess my mind was wondering as to what could have happened to him. I just had to keep on going and have the support of the community around us that were also looking for him. The police were on the scene within minutes, which was absolutely fantastic, but I didn’t know what to believe.

M: But in that community, you don’t expect somebody to take a child. I mean seriously, it’s a tiny community, everybody knows each other around those streets, there’s complete trust. I’m astounded that there could be somebody living there or people living there that could do this, it’s just not the place. You’d expect abductions in the city, you don’t expect to hear about abductions out here in Kendall, I mean it’s just ridiculous.

P: Parents are extra cautious in Sydney, but you’d probably let your guard down and be a bit disarmed in a quiet neck of the woods like that. Do you feel betrayed that someone within that community has potentially kidnapped a child?

M: I don’t think it’s somebody from the community. I think it’s somebody who doesn’t have a history there, I think it’s…If, I mean I don’t know for sure. I can’t see, I can’t see a true local who knows my Mum, who knows us, and knows our family, choosing to take our child. I can’t see that, and if that’s the case, then I feel so sorry for that community, because that is absolutely disgraceful and nobody can trust a soul. That’s not the community of Kendall, people trust each other there.

P: Dad, do you feel the same way?

D: Absolutely, I think the community is probably going through just a tough a time as we are because there are so many families there with young children who have now changed their lives as well, and the impact that’s had on them, for I don’t know what period of time but it’s disgraceful.

P: I’d like to have a chat about William himself, because he’s such a vibrant kid, every parent like myself has seen that photo of him in the Spiderman outfit and it just tears at the heartstrings, like you not knowing, what do you see when you look at that photo?

M: I took the photo, I took three photos, I do photo books, of what we do as a family every year. So every time we go somewhere I have my camera and I just take pictures of what they’re doing, and I thought Mum’s getting old, be really good for William and his sister to have memories of being at Mum’s. And my Dad passed away in February that year so that was really the first time we’d been back since Dad passed away, and we were going to go visit Dad’s grave, they were drawing some pictures to put on his grave, they were sending messages to Opa and things like that. I just thought, I want to just take some pictures of that.

So I look at that picture and I remember what we were doing and why we were doing it. I remember William just being absolutely beside himself with happiness at being at Nanna’s house, I remember the discussion with William about putting on his Spiderman clothes because I wanted him to wear a singlet, he didn’t want to wear a singlet, so the compromise was he’d wear a Spiderman t-shirt underneath his Spiderman clothes, so he was Spidermanned out, completely.

All these little things that I just remember, it was just, a normal family, doing normal family things, with their grandmother. D had an appointment which is not unusual, he works remotely. We were going to wait for him to come home and then we were going to go and visit Dad’s grave, then we were going to go out, so we’d planned the day. And I look at that picture and I just think, minutes, minutes, and our world has changed. His sister no longer has a brother, we no longer have a son, we no longer have a child, we no longer have our boy. My Mum is coping with her own grief because it happened at her house, it’s just awful.

P: She can’t blame herself.

M: No she doesn’t, well I hope she doesn’t, no she can’t.

P: What sort of boy is William?

D: He’s vibrant, the cheeky, vibrant little boy, but you know, full of energy, but loves interacting with his sister, he loved interacting with us. I mean he’s my little boy, I mean when I see that photo it just brings me to tears.

P: They’re pretty cheeky at that age.

D: Very cheeky, but also they’ve got that love you know, and, the father and boy love that, he had, it was just…

M: He adored his dad, just absolutely, his eyes and there was a smile. I look back at some of the pictures, and I look at pictures where William was smiling for me, and I was looking at pictures where William was smiling for his Dad, and it’s different.

P: Daddy’s little boy?

M: Completely, they adored each other, absolutely adored each other, and it’s heartbreaking.

P: What were his likes? What did he like to do?

D: Anything that related to Spiderman, he loved Spiderman, he loved planes, and we’d even taken him to the airport and watched the planes take off and land, you know, I guess they pick up on the things that you like as well, but anything relating to Spiderman and superheros and those sorts of things, he loved.

M: We’d got him a bike for his birthday, so we’d all go bike riding together, and he was just in heaven. He was just…We’ve got pictures of William riding this bike, and there is just unbridled joy, just over his face, he was just free, and he was really good. Just racing, just wanted to get on that bike and just ride it.

William's parents said he loves "anything Spiderman related".

P: What do you think has happened to William?

D: It’s a hard question. I think if I can answer it by saying, I’d trod those grounds myself for three or four days, every morning until almost nightfall, we had Pol Air, we had police, we had SES, we had the community, if he was out there in the bush, he would have been found, which you know, as I was walking through the bush with other people, it became more aware to me as time went on that this is not a normal event. This is not a child gone missing in the bush, this is heading down the path of abduction or something more sinister. That’s what I believe, what I truly believe now, and I still pray to this day that he’s alive.

P: You can’t give up hope can you? You read about those cases in America where 10 years on, they’re rescued.

M: If somebody has him, and if he is alive, I…I, want him to be safe, I want him to be feeling loved, and I want someone to be looking after him. Because to imagine that something else is going on, we can’t live a life like that, we need to know where he is, and we need to know what happened to him. We can’t live forever like this, his sister can’t grow up never knowing what happened to her brother.

P: If someone does have him, what message would you have for them right now?

M: Just give him back.

D: Do the right thing, drop him off.

M: Give him back, take him to a church, take him to a police station, take him to a school, give him to someone, give him back.

P: In the same vein, if someone knows something, what would you say to them if they haven’t come forward, for some reason, if they’re scared?

D: It’s time to do something, it’s time to say something.

M: There are too many people whose hearts are breaking here. If you don’t care about us, care about William’s sister, care about his family, care about the people who have to grow up with this, never knowing. He has a sister that’s going to be permanently identified as someone who is the sister of a little boy who is missing. That’s not fair, that’s not fair, think about the children, it’s you know, it doesn’t have to be about us, it’s about the children and it’s about William.

D: And it doesn’t have to end this way, if he’s alive, as my wife said - just, drop him off.

M: Just take him somewhere, exactly, you can’t take children, you just can’t take children, he’s three, he’s three years old, he’s only lived for three years, it’s ridiculous.

William has been missing since September last year.

P: He hasn’t started life.

M: He hasn’t, he hasn’t started, he hasn’t gone to school, he can sort of count. He’s reached none of those milestones that we all take for granted, and we watch his sister go through all these stages, we watch her learn new skills, we watch her create more friends, we watch her grow, you want that for your children, they have a future.

P: Often people may have seen something that they don’t think is totally relevant, dismiss it as a minor part of an equation, what would you say to those people who may have the slightest bit of information but have not come forward?

D: Say something to police straight away.

M: Yeah.

D: Because what they say or what they bring is another piece to the puzzle that can at least get us closer to an outcome. As I said before we’re praying for a miracle for him to return alive, but praying for an outcome so at least we can know what’s happened, that’s the goal at the end of the day.

P: If they don’t come forward, or even the person who might be very close to whoever’s done this, if they don’t come forward….you don’t want this happening to anyone else.

Both: No.

M: You said right at the beginning, walk a mile in our shoes? You can’t walk a mile in our shoes unless it’s actually happened, and I don’t think any parent, anywhere, deserves to walk a mile in our shoes. It shouldn’t happen - it just should not happen.

If you have any information that could assist police with their investigation, contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. 

Callers can remain anonymous and all information is treated with the strictest confidence.

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