Allen v Farrow | A Real Cold Case Detective’s Opinion

yeah let's talk about [Music] [Applause] fears [Music] i have got no love [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] crash [Applause] [Music] so i want to jump right into this one this was i just got done watching the mia versus woody documentary on hbo three-part series uh i love hbo documentaries what i don't like about documentaries is exactly what happened on this one it's biased it's skewed through i guess you would say mia's eyes and by that you can tell by watching it and you can do this with just about any documentary that you watch or article that you read within the first paragraph you can see which way they believe okay so in this case um it was very skewed towards believing the victim and believing mia farah over um woody uh woody allen i was gonna say woody harrelson woody allen now i'm not saying that the victims are not believable we're going to get into that but i'm just saying uh i like a more unbiased approach to filmmaking you had her side well i want to hear his side okay i like the even if you are researching a case and you start to form an opinion if you're going to put that uh video out to millions of people um for a documentary i think it should just be right down the middle and you should be unbiased and then let the public decide this is very skewed to obviously make it believe the victim so uh a quick rundown of what it is okay for people that don't know and i really didn't know either until watching this i remember back in the 90s hearing bits about it in the media but the allegation is okay that uh woody allen is this supposed legendary filmmaker and actor who made a ton of movies mostly in new york he was a new york guy squirrely looking guy and he ended up falling in love and i don't think he ever got married to mia pharaoh but they lived to get no they actually had separate residents but they were together for a long time they actually had a couple kids one or two maybe together um she mia farrell had a total of i believe nine kids most of them were adopted they ended up hooking up and falling in love some of the things that stand out to me in this case is this he always wanted a separate residence and he did not want to have kids and it was clear in this documentary documentary that he had stated you know if she were to become pregnant she would care for the kid he would have none of the upbringing of it um seemed like a very callous type of guy and sometimes you have to be in order to be uh that successful i guess i certainly wouldn't be like that but um there's people like that in the world he obviously was one so the 15 years or so that they were together it might have been longer than that um they did have one child like i said or maybe two together but they lived in separate residences okay they always maintain separate resonance you know so uh a couple of things that we that we want to look at like we do in anything right there was allegations of abuse okay woody became according to this documentary infatuated with this female child named dylan and dylan was not his i hope i'm saying this right and i think i am it was not his biological kid it was an adopted child um the child that they had together was named satchel i believe but this is about dylan this is a little pretty blond-haired girl that woody incorporated as his daughter although he had said previously to her if she ever had a kid and he had a kid with her or she adopted again or whatever he wouldn't be a father figure to it he changed his tune um with this child it got so that apparently it was over protective over infatuated always being with her i don't see anything wrong with any of this okay on the outset but then things started happening between woody allen and this six five six year old girl where the first thing that struck me was that she or he would let this child suck his thumb and people around that thought that that was odd and the i can't recall the reason that he gave that he let this child do that um but that stuck out to me as oh that i don't like that it seems a little weird but eventually at some point they became mia and her friends and family members became uncomfortable with woody around this child they didn't get into what that was but i'm assuming that something sexual it could had to be more than just the over protection and infatuation with the child that he was not allowed to be alone with her according to me as rules so at one point in time they're at the family house in connecticut and mia and some other people leave knowing that woody was going to show up there they leave and they tell the babysitter and i think two other adults that were there that were watching the kids don't leave woody alone with dylan so right there something had to have happened that there but but maybe it wasn't something over the top because if it was why would they leave if they knew that what he was coming over to the house why would they why would they leave and chance him being left alone but nonetheless they did what he did come to the house what he was left alone with dylan and according to the babysitter they were looking for dylan at one point in time and she walked in on woody in the living room with his face buried in the little six-year-old's crotch she didn't say anything she walked away um but she thought it was inappropriate enough that she had told uh mia farrow the the next day apparently she didn't think it was important enough to say something to woody or mia that day so i'm i'm unsure what was taking place during that incident however at some point this is a 20 minute gap he takes dylan to the attic according to dylan and he places basically places her on her stomach and um you know he sexually assaults her i i believe it's digital penetration you know with his fingers i don't believe um it was penetration uh you know with the penis they certainly didn't say that and so they did say on the reports that he had used his finger to penetrate her anus at least um he leaves dylan ends up confiding in mia her mom saying you know daddy took me to the attic and did these things to me mia was smart enough at the time to record these incidents with their video camera remember this was 93 before cell phones in those cameras but it was very compelling and very heartwarming and uh heartwarming is the wrong word i guess heart-wrenching to watch little dylan at the time ex trying to explain what her daddy had done to her now let's get something straight unfortunately daddies all over the world have done this to their children okay um as sick as it is it happens so just because he's a quote-unquote famous person don't think that it can't happen because it can um what makes a person famous from a non-famous person basically are the breaks in life okay so they're not much different than you and i so eventually mia ends up going taking her to the doctor the very next day the doctor has the obligation to call police and that's what he does and a criminal investigation gets started against woody allen now it kind of gets complicated because uh the prosecutor in the case had a report done by i believe it was yale university or a sexual abuse type of clinic associated with yale and they interviewed dylan nine times okay this little six seven year old girl about this abuse uh at the end of it they issued a report stating that they do not believe dylan a little six and seven-year-old girl and that mia more than likely put the child up to these allegations against woody in order to probably have so some sort of leverage and child custody very complicated okay because um you don't have the whole story in this documentary okay some of the things that that i saw was um evidence at one point in time the message connecticut i'm sorry state police when they went to that house they from what i saw did everything right the way they were supposed to which means they went to the attic and they looked for evidence now what kind of evidence are they going to find you ask um because you know more than likely there's not a murder so there's no blood or or anything like that but what you want to do in a situation like that is you're listening when when these people are interviewing dylan you're listening and you're not you don't want to always ask direct questions you want everything on the outside for instance you i if i was interviewing dylan i would say i would not say hey did your your daddy molest you did your daddy touch you somewhere where he shouldn't have did he touch your privates and use the uh the doll and everything and have them point no okay that's not what's important that is important okay but to establish truth when you're up in the attic dylan um how how were you positioned well i was he put me on my stomach okay what was up in that attic did you see anything you know why you were laying there oh yes i saw some dolls over in the corner were over here and there was a typewriter over here and those things so now as an investigator when you go to that attic what are the things that you're looking for to know whether the child's telling the truth or not you're looking for those dolls you're looking for the typewriter if they're not there you can reasonably say well wait a second maybe this child's making this up not necessarily but maybe but more importantly the suspectology for woody so when you get that chance to interview him if if he grants you an interview uh you come right out and you're gonna ask him questions like this so uh mr allen have you been into that attic at this home you know you never lived there or anything were you ever up and at it no sir i was never i was never up there okay and then you continue with your investigation but when your your criminal uh a forensic unit goes up there what are they looking for fingerprints to prove that he was up there and now you've proven not that he sexually assaulted his daughter right but now you're proven that he's a liar and why do you got reason to lie so those are the type of evidence in this case that i'd be looking for uh a rape kit what i want to know i i need to be schooled in this a little bit more too because i don't understand why and maybe a rape kit was done maybe if there was no penile penetration a rape kit is not done if it's just uh digital so but past abuse like jonbenet ramsey case where somebody a medical examiner looks at the vagina of the child and says there is chronic abuse annotated here i didn't see that i didn't see that report so i have a hard time believing that if woody allen was guilty of this that this was his first time doing it so excuse me that is something that i i would want to know just like any other case what are we looking at victimology now you say what can you learn from a six seven year old little girl well you can learn a lot i want to know does she lie does she fib oh kids fib a little bit but what's her level okay has she ever been caught in school lying or stealing what type of person is she does she draw a lot of fantasy type stuff is she being neglected where she has to make things up in order to get attention she did not come off to me like that but if it was my case and i was investigating it victimology does she lie has she been caught in a lot what was going on within that weak period in her life um when this incident occurred that would tell you whether she made this up or not uh just like victimology you have suspectology okay in this case i believe and this is rare because usually victimology and my belief system pretty much trumps everything that's the key that's the most important to understanding a crime but in this case i think suspectology is more important than victimology and i would want to look at mia but more importantly woody and try to figure out get into his mind as to has there ever been past incidents of this there was a clip on tv on that documentary of him being interviewed and he said what am i just all of a sudden going to be a child molester if i was a child molester i would have been one my whole life that struck me okay that that statement struck me because on the surface that has merit right you think about it well yeah most people they know they're a child molester from birth or you know from when they're young growing up they have this urge but earlier woody had said that he never wanted to have kids he didn't want kids around him he didn't live with kids so my my retort to that would be a woody you never had the opportunity to assault one of these kids now you have all these kids nine kids around you all the time so now you have opportunity so some of the things that i wrote down here that you know about sucking his thumb uh which i thought was weird but one of the hardest things to do in any criminal investigation especially cold case homicides is to tell if somebody's lying now sure they come up with all sorts of gadgets scientifically proven things that can tell i don't believe in any of them okay i don't believe in a polygraph yes they work on some people uh s stress test voice analysts yes they work on some people they're not fool proof they they're not a hundred percent so i don't believe in them what i do believe in is me i believe in the investigator you believe in you what do you look for when somebody's lying i'll be the first to tell you it's the hardest thing there is and i don't think you're ever 100 the only way you're 100 is when you have evidence that shows specifically that the person is lying that's about the only time that i know 100 the person's lying and i'm right and by that i'll give you an example um the attic okay what he says i've never been in that addict before in my life now he didn't i'm i'm using this as an example he didn't say that i think he was evasive when they asked him this but uh for argument's sake for what we're doing here would you use that i've never been in that attic ever ever ever in my life for i i've never been there and so when i'm interviewing him but i already know that i got his fingerprints up there not dna that could have been transferred okay his fingerprints he was there without a doubt so now i know he's lying okay i don't need a polygraph to tell me that i have evidence that supports him so when you have inconsistencies you can tell whether somebody's lying now dylan according to this yale report had inconsistencies i would expect that from a seven-year-old child that has been interviewed nine times don't you think she's getting tired of answering those questions don't you think that she doesn't want to talk about her daddy hurting her it's the inconsistencies in a child is less important than inconsistencies in a male adult a female adult okay does that make sense excuse me so now how do you tell somebody's hiding something that's different than somebody lying somebody hiding something is somebody that won't answer your questions is evasive dances all around that question but won't answer it's a simple yes or no question you don't have to tell me that you went to the store you bought pepsi and you brought it home and you didn't drink it because your child drank buddy i just asked you if you went to the store yes or no so when they do that when they start going all off on a tangent instead of sticking to yes or no okay they're hiding something in my experience when they're not cooperative they're hiding something okay now there'll be critics out there that'll say well they're they are not talking to the police because they feel that they're going to be framed okay i understand that in certain situations however let's say when if it's let's jonbenet ramsey case again your daughter is just murdered i need to interview you you're coming down the police station and talking to me right now no we're flying to atlanta okay you're not cooperating all right you're hiding something that's just the way it is um so in this case woody was kind of he was invasive when they asked him whether he'd been in the attic at least from what i saw on the documentary um he didn't he was interviewed so he cooperated at least one time and sometimes that's all you get is on interviews you know going in as an investigator listen i got one shot at this if if i screw up this interview i'm done i'm not getting another shot and they're going to lawyer up and that has happened to me many times so um i want to know his side that was me aside okay that documentary was certainly skewed to say dylan is telling truth and she was sexually abused by her adopted father woody allen so just when you know you think it can't get any weirder it ends up that mia finds pictures of her adopted daughter i believe her name was sue young that she had adopted as maybe not a young girl i think maybe she was 10 years old when they adopted her they found she find pictures of her in hustler style poses not playboy according to her so anybody that's ever looked the difference between playboy and hustler if you haven't let me educate you because i know playboy is very classy posed you know nothing raunchy hustler is different there might be objects involved there might be bondage there might be different sexual poses compared to playboy mia described the photographs as she found hustler penthouse style photographs the child was a freshman in college i believe here they were taken by woody he ends up dating her and he may still be dating her i don't know but is that not weird enough okay now you think about that do you think that he more than likely was molesting or having some sort of no no not even relation i'm sticking with molesting soo young that adopted girl when she was a child to where he ultimately ended up dating her freely and openly dating her so you have all that so now what do we do okay what do you do as an investigator well you want to deduce possibilities to probabilities to find out the truth that's what we do in all cases right we did that and in every case that i'd done billy the kid getting shot by pat garrett um john bernay ramsey getting killed by somebody from inside that house this is the same thing although it's not a murder doesn't have to be you're still deducing possibilities to probabilities okay so when i look at the evidence now i certainly would want to see woody's side of things nine other kids where are they being interviewed he had a father-son relationship with this child named moses he was an adopted kid as well when the allegations came out about him molesting dylan moses wrote him a letter and said pretty much i renounce you you are not my father you crushed me blah blah blah but then there was a blurb that said later dylan or not dylan moses retracted that letter so i don't know what that meant all those other kids were in that house okay they would know if prior sexual abuse may have been taken place they maybe not know for sure but there would be somebody that i want to talk to they weren't interviewed on this documentary so as in all these cases there is more out there that police probably know okay they probably have interviews of all those people uh i'm sure that they do that's what i would do i would interview all those children and find out the people that they interviewed for the documentary there was nobody that i saw that was on woody's side everybody had something negative to say does it matter if it's negative it's if it's the truth right so i have no reason to believe that it's not the truth at this juncture so you have to look at those things in order to make a determination off of that documentary that i have to go on and if i'm deducing from possibilities to probabilities i'm going to say that more than likely than not woody allen was guilty of sexually assaulting his six or seven-year-old adopted daughter dylan and i base that on the totality of all the evidence him ending up dating maybe even marrying another adopted child that he helped rear okay she was part of that family during that 15 years i understand it's not his blood so i can't say that it's wrong love is love okay i get that but i can say it's sickening and it's not normal okay when i looked at his suspectology and i see all of his past movies always involved an older guy with a younger female not kids that has credence i think that he could have done something for sure to dylan there's much more to this story that i don't know about that you don't know about but the police do i'm sure of that the investigators at children and youth who were stymied during this investigation goes to show yes higher-ups famous people do get treated differently a lot of it has to do with money they have the money they have the luxury to be treated differently so i think that the preponderance of the evidence and even the prosecutor that they interviewed on there i believe he stated that there was enough to arrest woody for the assault but he did not believe that there was enough to convict that's always important and i i say that all the time it's not what you know it's what you can prove you as an investigator you do your case in your mind okay i got the evidence did the victimology suspectology i deduced and i believe that it shows that joe blow committed this homicide no physical evidence maybe maybe it's a circumstantial case but it's a good case good solid case nonetheless in your mind in the investigator's mind and you take that you take that file over and you give it to the district attorney he takes it home he reads it for a week he comes back to you and says not i can't take this to trial we don't win you can get mad you can get pissed off as an investigator but think of it through the prosecution's eyes okay you get one chance okay you got one chance look at the oj case they're fine not guilty you are you can't take them back you can in federal court but then there would have to be a federal crime so you get one chance let's hold off okay and see if more evidence becomes available that's how cases become cold okay it's not what you know it's what you can prove you know joe blow did it you know it but you just don't have the evidence and the prosecutor doesn't want to take a chance some prosecutors will take that chance um but you know most of them err on the side of caution so in this case the prosecutor felt that he didn't have enough to win at court and i am sure that the thought of putting that little girl on the stand to testify against her dad who did this horrible thing to her weighed heavily in his decision because it would mine and a lot of those times they'll leave that up to a family member they'll ask the mom they'll ask you know the family hey if we make an arrest on this she is the main witness she's gonna have to sit on that stand and let me tell you something three quarters of these defense attorneys don't give a damn that she's six or seven they will poke holes in her story they will make her feel you know unsure they'll do everything to confuse her in her mind in order to win the case that's their job however not unethical but however shitty it is to do they do that so all of that played in a into them not prosecuting this case so that's that's my take on the mia pharaoh versus woody allen documentary that was on hbo uh as always i just i i believe a dylan you know based off the documentary you know again if it i i can't say for sure because i want to do an investigation this is not an investigation this is basically a review of the documentary in order for me to say for sure yes he did it and i believe her i would have to go through her victimology i'd have to go through all the interviews i'd have to do his suspectology all those things in order to make a determination i'd love to get the rest of that document uh those documents and go through them but the bottom line is if and i and i based based off of what i saw i believe that he did this to her and can't i can't i am i i'm speechless i can't even i can't even fathom somebody doing that to a child especially a child that cares for you loves you you're her dad you are a father figure you you take care of her but dylan said it brilliantly at the end of that documentary it's not always the person that is driving the white van that's going down the street and snatches you and throws you in the back that molests you that sexually assaults you that kills you and leaves you along the road it's the guy that buckles your your seat in the car it's the guy that holds your hand crossing the street it's the guy telling you the bedtime stories it's the ones that care about you those those are the people that will hurt you those are the people that molest and sexually assault these children not all of them though some good dads out there right and i i know you guys know you know all the good fathers out there who who do hold their child's hand crossing the street and do tell them how proud you are of them when they uh do something good and come home from school those are the real dads the real fathers and those are the ones that should be saluted not scumbags that do this to their children okay so to all you good fathers and good dads out there i salute you [Music]

Channel: Unsolved No More

Views: 14,016

Keywords: Dylan Farrow, Woody Allen, Sexual abuse

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Length: 38min 25sec (2305 seconds)

Published: Fri May 28 2021