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Originally Posted by Ditch Digger
What motive does the brother have? He doesn't come off the greatest in the documentary but it's mainly due to him believing the prosecution and cops 100%. His sister was murdered so I can't fault him for not being objective and seeing through some of the BS evidence and confession.
1) Teresa mentions in her video she loves her sisters and her parents, no mention of her brother. This at the very least shows they had a pretty bad relationship. I'm not close to my brother at all, but if I were to mention people I love in a video I'd definitely include him together with my parents.
2) He talks about grieving and moving on 2 days after she went missing. Most of the time, family will continue talking about their loved one in the present tense (why wouldn't you, she couldve just been kidnapped) for a long period after the person went missing. The only reason you'd talk about her in the past tense is if you somehow know she's dead, or you're just very very pessimistic.
3) He was apparently close with the ex-boyfriend, as they organized the search together right away. No sight of the sisters or the parents anywhere. They're probably too busy grieving over the death. You can also see in the interview that they are clearly helping each other with the answers. The stuttering is very weird to me, especially considering he has a degree in communication. You can clearly see he's well-spoken when he's talking to the press later on.
4) The passwords. I mean, you gotta admit there's something super fishy there. Unless Teresa took "login" and "password" for all her passwords, it seems highly unlikely that both the brother and the ex-boyfriend figured out the passwords. The boyfriend couldve easily said: "We've been dating for 5 years, I knew her password straight up". Why didn't he do that? Cos they would ask him what the password was. And of course, he doesn't know ****.
5) Just in general, it's ridiculous how much these 2 are involved in the whole process. If my brother was missing, and I found out his voicemail password, I'm running straight to the police. Why are these kids playing detective themselves? Why is the brother pushing super hard towards brandon, when it's clear to pretty much everyone on the planet that his involvement was limited at best? Why don't we ever see the mother or any of the sisters talk to the press?
I guess I didn't really answer your question regarding motive at all. But don't you think an ex-boyfriend and a clearly disliked brother have more motive than a random redneck hilbilly that's not connected her in any way except for the fact that she shoots a couple pictures of one of his cars to put in her magazine? She was actually helping his business, you know. He was trying to sell that car.
Last edited by biggetje; 12-29-2015 at 08:19 AM.