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Why Styven, Why???
For real though, look up the sped up footage of this interrogation, this dude (Stephen McDaniel) is skinwalker-level eerie.
IDK. On the one hand, the dude is likely a psychopath. On the other, if you actually are trying to exercise your right to remain silent, then you pretty much have to look like a complete psychopath during an interrogation. If the cops accuse you of a horrible crime, the natural response is to get emotional and start vehemently defending yourself. Their whole interrogation strategy is to get you worked up, to break down your defenses, and get you to admit or provide evidence to a crime you may or may not have committed. Police interrogators are masters of emotional manipulation.
The only way I can see to get through that is to adopt a grey rock strategy. Just realize that they're trying to get to you. Disconnect the emotional parts of your brain. Let the words of the cops pass over you unperturbed and simply remain calm, disinterested, and dispassionate. Adopt a soul of ice and refuse to engage with them at all emotionally. This guy made the mistake of talking to them at all. He should have remained dispassionate but also just refused to answer in any form.
I just can't think of a way to truly remain silent without making yourself look like a psychopath. The natural response by an innocent person to being accused of dismembering someone would be rage, fear, and desperate indignation. But doing so could incriminate them. But if an innocent person is remaining silent, they would by necessity just have to sit there completely uncaring when accused of the most horrible crimes. There's just no way to exercise your rights without seeming completely insane. And cops use that fact to extract evidence from people.
This guy's silence is not why he seems creepy. It's his body language, his mannerisms.
JCS has another video about... I forget. They call him an anti-hero a lot. The anti-hero definitely talks too much, but he exercises his right plenty and mostly just seems like a tragic, lovable doofus.
Zen meditation teaches us we can find inner peace no matter the situation
I actually constantly think of the scene from Street Fighter where the fat guy is being tortured ineffectively, and the one guy says "Next time your mind leaves, tell it to bring back pizza."
The other line that lives rent free in my head is "Quick, change the channel!"
I mean,he killed the girl and talked to the TV crew on site...
Where he was already setting off the uncanny radar if memory serves. Seeing his reaction to hearing they found the body was pretty wild as well.
I mean, he was the VP for his university's Federalist Society chapter. (He murdered the president of it.)
Ah, he was in the Federalist Society, that explain a LOT