Hello everyone!
Over the years of watching and reading true crime, police and other "experts" say that a suspects eyes will dart around, close or look down when they are lying. As I watch the footage of Capt. Borrelli, that's what he's doing. Just an observation.
Borrelli's Eyes
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Interesting topic for sure. I can’t help but notice that in nearly every SOS documentary, JB is there to dismiss whatever is being presented that diverges from the DB lone shooter narrative - “we looked into that, there was nothing, etc., etc.”, which really does a disservice to the whole point of a documentary like the Netflix series. Though I haven’t noticed shifty eyes per se, I have noticed he looks rather sullen, downcast, doesn’t look straight into the camera very much, etc. I’m not a body language expert, but I do get the sense that there is not 100% confidence behind the statements made.
Just recently while reviewing some parts of The Ultimate Evil, I was reminded of the little tidbit of a phone caller asking for Borelli by name the night of the arrest and asking if Berkowitz implicated anyone else. I suppose at the time he could have shrugged off the caller as a crank, but if I was in his shoes, I would be forever haunted by that call.
Just recently while reviewing some parts of The Ultimate Evil, I was reminded of the little tidbit of a phone caller asking for Borelli by name the night of the arrest and asking if Berkowitz implicated anyone else. I suppose at the time he could have shrugged off the caller as a crank, but if I was in his shoes, I would be forever haunted by that call.
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Yes, his looking down when answering is what I'm referring to.
Perhaps I wrote my explanation of what interrogators look for poorly. Any one of those behaviors or "tells" being an indicator, not all three. I noticed it's a tendency that continued from early on until later interviews conducted by Joshua Zeman.
Perhaps I wrote my explanation of what interrogators look for poorly. Any one of those behaviors or "tells" being an indicator, not all three. I noticed it's a tendency that continued from early on until later interviews conducted by Joshua Zeman.
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No, you explained fine, sorry about that, I just kind of quickly read through your post and replied, realizing later that you did pretty much describe the same thing I was saying.
As Maury pointed out, Borelli’s tendency toward ‘lone wolf’ conclusions proved fateful again when in 1990, assigned to the assassination of Rabbi Meier Kahane in NYC, he declared shooter El Sayid Nosair a solo operator. It was another critical miss, as that attack has since come to be known as one of the earliest indications of a burgeoning terror network that would go on to carry out larger-scale attacks, culminating in Sept. 11th. To be fair though, even after the 1993 WTC bombing, law enforcement in general still didn’t fully grasp the magnitude of what they were dealing with. Thinking the “case” fully solved after tracing the truck back to the rental agency and arresting the patsy driver who came back for his security deposit proved to be extremely short-sighted.
As Maury pointed out, Borelli’s tendency toward ‘lone wolf’ conclusions proved fateful again when in 1990, assigned to the assassination of Rabbi Meier Kahane in NYC, he declared shooter El Sayid Nosair a solo operator. It was another critical miss, as that attack has since come to be known as one of the earliest indications of a burgeoning terror network that would go on to carry out larger-scale attacks, culminating in Sept. 11th. To be fair though, even after the 1993 WTC bombing, law enforcement in general still didn’t fully grasp the magnitude of what they were dealing with. Thinking the “case” fully solved after tracing the truck back to the rental agency and arresting the patsy driver who came back for his security deposit proved to be extremely short-sighted.