Body Language Analyst REACTS to Amanda Knox's CONTRADICTORY Nonverbal Communication Faces Episode 32

well hey there idiots welcome back to observe in today's video we're going to be talking about the case surrounding amanda knox let's go ahead and start i'm going to start talking about some of the body language that she's displaying here and how it relates to the story and everything that's centered around this this is that part that i was telling you so since it's hard to understand from this video this is what happens the police get the door open and they immediately usher raphael and amanda out of the apartment and they're all talking she's hearing these words and she starts acting quite strangely to be very fair to everybody who is cynical of amanda this is strange she does the splits but let's talk about what she's recounting here she's saying i never did a cartwheel and she does the look where it's like you catch what i'm saying do you understand what i'm saying teachers will use this parents will use this any time that a person has had to say something or tried to tell somebody something multiple times and they're frustrated by it they're gonna do that look it's very common look out for it and you'll see it a lot so she does that look as if to be like okay do you get what i'm saying and then she goes and says i did do the splits and she looks down and she flashes this expression of shame she knew that was a dumb decision she did the splits and her reasoning for it was that she was feeling stiff from standing there all day and while i think that was a dumb move by her why would you possibly see yourself needing to do the splits during this sort of situation or stretch like that at all i also understand that it could just be her being detached and this boils back down to her mindset in and of herself regardless of this incident she herself is very self-sufficient and she feels detached from those around her on some level it's been made clear by the contempt smiles that she has even in the people that are close to her and she also considers herself to be quirky she says that in the netflix documentary herself so considering all of this seeing somebody do the splits with that sort of personality complex makes a lot more sense it's not a sign of guilt it's literally just a sign of detachment she doesn't have the emotional attachment to the situation quite yet coupled with that it's a traumatic event and everybody acts differently during trauma where you might feel like some people would be screaming and losing their [ __ ] that could be true in some cases there are other cases where people seem totally fine until a moment and then they'll snap that always happens at some point a person who has gone through trauma will snap this wasn't her time she did not snap during this point it's also going to start talking about a kissing scene that will come up here and we'll keep talking a little bit more about this cartwheels back walkovers i did the splits and that's once okay let's talk again here she's recounting about a female police officer that she says spread all of these rumors about her doing more or less an entire gymnastics routine outside of this crime scene and she's very defiant as she's doing it her gestures are very defiant she has her chin raised she's angry and defiant because she didn't do those things i believe her in this point i don't think she did any of those things also there's no footage of it there's no actual proof it's just a he said she said sort of situation so i believe her in this point just because i've seen how synchronized her body is at all other points in the interview itself once again when she mentions the splits she looks down and flashes her shame expression she thinks she's an idiot for having done the splits and frankly that was just a dumb move that wasn't a well thought through move on her part because it was a heavily incriminating look for her to have at that moment and sawyer is about to bring that up as well but do you see how strange well what's strange is why these things got mischaracterized but again you can see this does not look like grief this does not look like grief that's making a fundamental flaw in assumptions that many people have is that everything on how people compute and handle tragic trauma in their life is going to look the same as the next person there's not always a normal way of coping with trauma ask any psychologist they will tell you everybody does cope with trauma differently while there are similarities there are always differences and chances are that's the case here but let's keep watching does not read as grief i think everyone's reaction to something horrible is different and people kept saying where is the anguish where is what we think we would do if this happened to our friend i've seen good question once again let's talk about amanda's psychology if if and only if the theory of her self-assuredness self-sufficiency individuality and emotional separation from those around her due to her childhood upbringing and self-beliefs if all of those are true she doesn't have the same emotional connection as what you're assuming she would you're assuming that she's best friends with meredith i don't think she was i think she was friends with meredith as close as amanda could get to friendship this could be the case with amanda i'm not saying it is but so far it does seem to fit the nonverbal evidence the same picture like the kissing just can't stop and that's not what that was my friend had been murdered and it could just have easily been me we're going to talk about the kissing here so what was shot and you saw the little blip of it there is that at that point amanda and her boyfriend have three small kisses it's a peck peck peck they're both very young they're both very hormone-driven as everybody is at the beginning of a relationship keep in mind only seven days into this relationship hormones are pretty much all they have to run off of they only see that they like the way each other looks other than that it's pretty watered down so during times of stress it's easier for a person's psychology to fall back on something that makes them happy or makes them feel good that's a way that we cope with trauma so during this time when she gives three kisses to her boyfriend they weren't making out and the media presented it that they were just like in the throes of passion off to the side of this crime scene they weren't it was actually just a lie and i was really disgusted with how the media handled this on this situation it was just a lie and afterwards if you look at her face here you can see that she's not just like bubbling with joy she just wasn't it was still a stressful situation if anything she's blank and that's a sign of detachment from a situation especially a traumatic situation so where the media was like oh they're just they don't even care they're just in love and you can see they're just making out off to the side it wasn't the case was it still odd sure sure there's not a single part of this case that wasn't odd but is it the way that they painted it out to be absolutely not nor was it non-verbally displayed as such somehow she had died in the house where we were living and it could have been me did you kill meredith kircher no were you there that night no do you know anything you have not told police that you have not said in this book do you know anything no this is a really important question and amanda does not give satisfactory answers non-verbally to this it's fishy and i'm not able to say why because there's just not enough evidence but it is admittably fishy so when she says no the first time it's a no largely but it's a circular kind of no and that's okay the head shaking is not always 100 reliable so when she says no that first time i would say that it's a no she did not kill her roommate when she's asked if she was there that night she does a very odd display of tales she says no but it's a no and then she nods her head down further now there's two reasons for this that this could possibly be no could be used in affirmation of like no kind of thing when you're saying something so authoritatively that you really want to hammer at home a no is pretty common and then that second nod that could be either one this is a severe non-verbal misalignment point which is totally possible and i'm keeping track of it as such as the rest of the read goes but it could also be subconsciously lowering a head like that is a sign of submission it's showing that you are in fact lowering your gaze lowering your head you're making yourself smaller in the eyes of somebody else it's a sign of vulnerability so when she's doing that she is either one lying or two being vulnerable subconsciously i have to keep both of these in mind throughout the rest of the read and consider this cluster this odd cluster in context of everything else because context in nonverbal reading is so absolutely crucial that if you don't do it you can run into so many misunderstandings with it and that's where a lot of people who do non-verbal reading and aren't as willing to do the context work it takes more work to watch stuff in context and they just see a small blip of it then they'll just go off of that small blip and hang everything on that small blip i actually want to take a moment here to talk about the prosecution and the lack of respect i have for how the prosecutor handled this and why so according to the documentary which he was doing the best he could to present himself as well as he could in this documentary he started talking about how he's a fan of sherlock that's totally fine be a fan of sherlock but as soon as somebody says that they're a fan of sherlock especially on this channel with the amount of video content and study that i personally have done into sherlock i always get wary because i always see one common flaw in every sherlock enthusiast who tries to pull it over into the work realm without enough study and that's that they tried to take small details out of context and hang everything on that and sure enough he says that he believes in sherlock and then the next line that he says is that he believes that the smallest details can have the largest implications that can be true that can absolutely be true but and this is a really big but that he ignored completely is that it has to be observed in context still for instance the crime scene the body was covered by a blanket now his immediate conclusion out of his mouth was that oh the body is covered by a blanket that couldn't have been a man a man wouldn't think of that that's just idiocy that's just idiocy what the hell of course a man can think of that do you think that we're incapable of thinking of being like oh let's cover something and then along with that at a certain point in the interrogation where he was present he said that she started beating her ears now this is a common sign of extreme distress and it is usually related to auditory but his reasoning and the only one that he allowed to be thought about was that she was beating on her ears to block out the dying screams of her roommate so poetic right also totally unfounded and there are a numerous number of different options for that for instance she had been in interrogation for so long that would you not want to get out of that situation audibly visually everything if you're innocent would you not want to block that out no it had to have been that she was blocking out the screams of her dying roommate which she killed along with that he also does this thing to where he's like it couldn't have been a break-in because there was a window that was broken right odd like i said there's a lot to this evidence it's a nightmare but he said that because the window was broken and he found no scuffs or markings on the wall underneath it that it couldn't have been a break-in obviously it had to have been an inside job he didn't even mention that there's the possibility one of entering from a different route or two that the person just didn't leave any trace on the wall when they climbed up it he just ruled it out completely and it's this mindset of taking facts to just kind of cram into an answer that you already have that really overrides everything that he held his prosecution with he had a mindset he had an answer when he went into it he is a famous sex crime prosecutor he went into this with an answer he already knew his answer and he found all the facts he could to fit that answer and that's a disgusting betrayal of scientific and investigative method i was disgusted with this prosecutor and he was one of the biggest reasons that this continued to drag on anyway that's my rant on him let's dive back into the body language i don't i wasn't there so she says i don't and i wasn't there and she still is doing some odd things but less odd than the time before she's doing some lip compressions and some insecure gestures and these can be explained once again two different ways one it could be deceit she could be lying and all of this could be explained by that lying doesn't line up with the rest of the body language that we've been able to observe from her everywhere else she's been very synchronized and then this point she's maybe not being synchronized could be lying it's true or alternatively it could be all synchronized and all of this body language that we're seeing is her trying to work through an uncomfortable situation a little tip from people who are doing interviews or have done interviews regularly is to sit quietly it makes people uncomfortable and fill time that is what you do if you ask a difficult question you just shut up and wait for them to answer it and if they answer it and you don't like the answer wait a little longer they'll fill the time that's what sawyer did here and amanda filled the time but she didn't feel it with any other lies she just said i wasn't there she re-says what she already says she doesn't give anyway any other extra details she doesn't try to excuse anything else she just says what she said before this leads me as an interviewer having been and conducted many interviews myself this leads me to believe more that she's being honest than dishonest but this is still only a partial picture it has to be considered in context and we're going to continue watching i asked them if i should have a lawyer and they said it would be worse for me they knew what they were doing and that is something that is informable to me so during this situation the interrogators leave her with one option and that's to confess to the crime this is not unheard of it's very effective for getting guilty people to confess this feeling of there's only one way out but because of the very nature and the psychology behind it it also can lend to many false confessions there's only one way out and that's how they exactly paint it everything else is so hopeless that the one way out of this situation is just to be able to tell that they did it to admit to a crime i feel like that's probably the case here i don't know so i'm not going to say that she's obviously innocent from what i've seen so far let's watch and then we'll talk about it but you confessed well i didn't confess i was interrogated they acted like my answers so real quick here these are small ones obvious ones and small ones she says i didn't confess i was interrogated she says i didn't confess and she does that same look it's a koi out of the corner of your eye kind of look this is usually also common in contempt it has that lopsided smile but it's also like a playful sort of thing and do you get what i'm saying sort of feel to her words but then what's more important is that she flashes very briefly and very minutely a disgust expression the corner of her mouth raises and that is an expression of disgust she was not happy with how the interrogators handled it and if she was innocent i don't blame her i don't blame her at all for being unhappy with that if she was guilty it's still also easily explained by disgust with the situation of them prying so hard and her not wanting to tell the truth regardless disgust was in there and i just wanted to make note of it were wrong they told me i was wrong that i didn't remember correctly that i had to remember correctly and if i didn't i would never see my family when they told me i had amnesia it was the only reason i could think of of why they were treating me that way all right so we're seeing a lot of positive reinforcing head movements and this actually in relation to this is enforcing the idea that when she said no earlier in regards to her being there that night that's probably a positive reinforcement head nod it's an accenting head nod it's saying no this is the same sort of case here she's doing this reinforcing head nod the entire time and talking about her verbiage here building up this idea or excuses and avenues for a person to admit is part of interrogating making it easier for the person to admit their crime is part of interrogation and with them being like no you're misremembering remember you were high you can't remember what happened there so just admit that you were there and you did it and she was high she can't remember the exact details she admitted that herself and that makes it easier for her to say that she did it regardless of whether or not she did it it just makes it easier human nature is that of water it will take the path of least resistance when possible especially under pressure that happened here i trusted them and so when they i trusted them and flashes another disgust expression she really doesn't appreciate the law enforcement here pushed me about patrick's message and told me to think told me to remember that i had met him i i can only describe it as breaking down she's being very careful with her words here there's two reasons that that can be but both of them kind of have the same mindset behind it she has to choose her words wisely and she's doing so this is either one because of guilt or two because she doesn't want to incriminate herself any further than she already has by doing this and so while she's taking breaths and looking down this is her tell of formulating her answer is it a sign of deceit absolutely not is it a sign of her really trying to figure out what she's wanting to say a thousand percent we know this we've seen it this is a pattern for her so when she's saying that she only had one option out and they told her this is what must have happened tell us that it happened this way and she's trying to figure out how to say it that way she's really just trying to figure out how to choose her words wisely this is another point that i just have to keep track of and understand in the context and then by the end of it hopefully be able to make sense of right now there's just not enough information to be like oh she's lying in this or she's not i didn't know what i remembered and what i didn't remember anymore it's so detailed i heard meredith screaming and i was scared and i covered my ears i wasn't providing a lot of the detail that's not detailed i'm so sorry i i i get what sawyer is saying here that it's detailed but that's not a detailed recollection who wouldn't think that they had to cover their ears or wouldn't be screaming it's such an obvious thing that it's not wow this is just so unbelievably detailed that who else could have done it literally anybody could have come up with this duh meredith was murdered via a knife it's a very loud murder so there's probably going to be screaming that's about as far as you need to know to come up with that detail so this so detailed and the media presenting it as so detailed was just actual horseshit i wasn't impressed by that that's bad journalism that's just click bait journalism and i can't stand that sort of stuff but let's keep watching they were asking me if i had heard meredith scream and when i said i didn't remember they said how could you not remember that she screamed and i said okay i guess i remember that she screamed it was all like that but you signed it and i signed it because i was incredibly vulnerable at that time this is inconceivable to people that you lose yourself and then you talk about being there it's i don't know why it's inconceivable to people most people that it's inconceivable to just don't understand the pressure of an interrogation regardless of whether or not you're innocent especially if the force has shown that they want you to be guilty if they want you to be guilty it's an extremely stressful situation and to be very fair to those people though it's very hard to imagine that sort of situation when you haven't been in it but that pressure when you're innocent and everybody in the law enforcement and everybody on everyone that you've talked to and the prosecution the media the citizens everybody thinks you're wrong and that you're lying it's extremely stressful it's extremely stressful so her behavior can be explained by lying and deceit and perhaps she is or it could be explained by she's young inexperienced in a foreign land also explainable you talk about someone else doing it i can try to explain what happened and that's all i can do i am still sorry to this day that i named patrick the mumba but i was demolished in that interrogation all right she is sorry that's all affirmative it's all synchronized you can hear the emotion coming up in her throat you could see it start in the tenseness under her eyes these are all involuntary movements most of the time don't get me wrong could be a brilliant liar don't see that but it could be along with that right afterwards she shows her defines again her individuality she has to be self-sufficient and she shows that by raising her chin up and this is still characteristic and fits the psychological type that i feel she has of this self-sustained self-sufficient view of herself when you see it that way all of this does make a lot more sense but i'm not sold totally on it so i just want to be able to keep observing keep analyzing keep gathering data data is honestly my best friend this is what i'm up against and when they finally told me they had to take me to the jail i did not understand why and they said it's for your protection we're protecting you did it again she really does not like the police force she says we're protecting you and then you can see it just before it cuts here she does a little tiny flash of disgust again she does not like the police force there i understand if she's innocent i wouldn't like the police force that tried their hardest over so many years to try to get me to go to prison for a thing i didn't do i'd have disgust too or she's a liar and she does not like the police force for trying to catch her in her act both are possible one is becoming less and less possible as i observe and continue to watch her body language i didn't realize how very intensely i was being scrutinized i'm not the best speaker does it look hard hardened unfeeling i can see how it does you thought you were going to be acquitted how could i be convicted that's what i was thinking that's a good question either one it was never even considered to be a lie because it was so quick it's just a gut response like what do you mean was i anticipating being acquitted how was i possibly convicted that's a great question if you're innocent or she's rehearsed that so much as a lie that it's just a gut reaction i don't think she's that good of a liar from what i've seen so far from how much she's worn all of her emotions on her sleeve i don't think she's that good of a liar i think that's more of a gut reaction i don't know i can never know for certain in body language but from what i've seen i don't think that that was a lie in that situation i can't go over all the evidence but just to hit a testified it was her dna and it was proven that they were wrong they have said that you cleaned the room somehow you cleaned the premises of your dna well that's impossible i'm going to talk about this it doesn't even matter her body language in this section the science alone from that dumb ass opinion of she cleaned her dna from a crime scene the science alone the difficulty of that alone just shows that they are trying so desperately to fit a crime to an answer they already have to fit the the facts to their answer they're implying that this 20-something-year-old american girl in a foreign land somehow beyond all science and physical possibilities went into a room a crime scene and cleaned up exclusively her dna without leaving any evidence of any cleaning having happened that's not possible it's just not even with the best tools and assets it would be extremely time-consuming and extremely difficult borderline completely impossible for somebody to remove a specific dna so to be able to suddenly go from being pretty sheltered from her parents home to being abroad and this master killer doesn't make sense it's such a weird reach such a weird reach but nevertheless that's the reach that was done again and again and again for eight years we're gonna watch a little bit more of this and then i'm just gonna summarize and we'll close it up from here um it's impossible to see dna much less identify whose dna it is i remember being [Music] both humbled and mortified by that because in my mind it was still all a big mistake and it would be shown to be a big mistake guilty and it was a roar in the courtroom people exclaiming my mom and my sister cry this mindset that's being shown here with the courtroom it's obvious that everybody wanted her to be guilty they just wanted her to be guilty the media was one of the biggest culprits for that the media were just disgusting one of the head journalists in the propagation of all of this showed very clearly the only thing he cared about beyond checking facts was the clickability of a title the viewability of a title and having his name under it all that he cared about was that it was a good story he didn't care if it was an accurate story sure he did research but he only did it so far his drive was to get it out before other people and sadly this is what's true so much in the media having worked side by side with the media before i can say for certainty that this is disgustingly so much of the drive is just getting it out there first not necessarily getting it out there correctly and that's frustrating because in this situation i think the media was one of the biggest reasons that everybody hated on amanda knox during this everybody wanted her to go to prison for this and i think it's the fault of the newspapers the news stations the social medias and everything surrounding that just trying to maintain clickability readability and getting it out there fast not maintaining facts not maintaining truth just being clickable and that's disgusting to me that's so such a slummy kind of mindset to have i hate that one of the biggest reasons that i cut ties with doing things in the media and i couldn't breathe and i couldn't i couldn't reach them and i lost it everything that i thought i knew about the way justice and life worked was gone it's gonna go off and talk about some more extraneous details that i'm not gonna cover in this video because this is already a really long video and also because i don't think it's relevant to the case so when it's talking about her losing it i think that's an important point to talk about here because this is that breaking point like i said everybody has a breaking point it's just a matter of when and how it's going to happen this is likely hers this is the time that people wanted to see this is the amanda that people wanted to see at the crime scene this destroyed sobbing broken person it's not the person they saw there this only hit home for amanda once she really got this verdict that she was guilty she was found guilty and at that point she loses it like she said she loses it and the reason that i think it took so long to get to her not only one because she was likely innocent in this situation all of the nonverbal communication that we've been able to compile seems to point to that more so than her being guilty nonverbal communication is at best 70 to 80 accurate so you have to really look at everything but from the non-verbals that she's displayed it's pointing more towards her innocence so if she's innocent it won't hit as hard yet because she still feels that she's going to be okay she's innocent along with that she is that self-sufficient partially self-absorbed young person from america and she's defiant against this she feels like she's gonna be okay with those types of people with people that are very self-sufficient and possibly self-absorbed it takes a little bit longer for the reality of things to kick in and usually when it does kick in it's at extreme moments so when she just found out that she has been found guilty that's a pretty extreme moment and probably exactly when she found her breaking point nonverbally speaking as we observed throughout all of this information that we just collected and along with this the hours and hours and hours of study that i did before this video i found her to be largely innocent suspicious totally i understand that point but innocent i don't think she was guilty she doesn't have the demeanor to do it she wasn't a violent person also some facts about the roommate they were similarly sized and the roommate was known to have taken martial arts so that kind of implies that she knows how to handle herself at least to a degree so to assume that amanda who doesn't have martial arts training is a similar size to the other girl came in there and killed her not likely one of the theories is that she had two other people doing it she manipulated her boyfriend and this other guy into doing it as some sort of weird satanic cult thing also not really any evidence for that neither in her past nor physically it was just like one of those fantastical ones brought up by the amazing prosecution who was known and had a reputation of being a sex crime prosecutor but here's where it gets really interesting to me i suggest you go and look up all of the evidence yourself as well so you can kind of hopefully see this but speaking evidence-wise there was a gentleman who was there that night and said on record that he was there the night that meredith was killed his excuse his reason for him saying that it wasn't him was that he said he went to the bathroom with his ipod and he was listening to music on the toilet with his ipod he said for about 10 minutes and during that time meredith was killed by an intruder and this gentleman came out of the bathroom just in time to see a figure of a man run out of the house i was like wait hold on let's just think critically for just a tiny second on this this is an upstairs apartment and it's small i don't know how many of you have lived on an upstairs apartment that's small but if somebody even in the adjacent apartment which is much further than just the adjacent room if somebody in the adjacent apartment like drop something heavy you can feel that you could just feel that so say say he was in the bathroom and he did have his ipod all the way on full blast where he couldn't hear the screams of a person being killed next door like quite literally a room or two over say that's all true and he just couldn't hear it because he his eardrums were bleeding from the loudest music known to man say that's true he would still have felt it i don't care you would feel that kind of struggle there were evidence of a large struggle in the room stuff was tossed about she was a martial artist there would have been a very large struggle but his reasoning was that somebody else did it all in all his testimony was way more suspicious also along with that he has a history for breaking and entering which a person who does crimes is more likely to do more crimes than a person who does no crimes is to go to the extreme of doing this kind of crime i'm not saying that that's a reliable stream of thought but that is a commonality in criminals they start off somewhere and they escalate that being said you tell me what you think does that make more sense the person who had a record and who's admitted to being there that night and whose dna is found at the scene including inside the crime scene itself or the 20 year old american girl who had no history of violence has no record and has no capability of killing a roommate who knows karate quite well in such a brutal physical violent way you tell me but this is just a nonverbal read everything that you have heard here is subject to interpretation and at best nonverbal reading can only be 70 to 80 accurate with some leniency on either side so i hope this all makes sense to you if you enjoyed this style of video and would love to 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Channel: Observe

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Keywords: Sherlock Holmes, Logan Portenier, Observe, Mentalist, Lie to Me, body language, nonverbal, psychology, React, Analysis, lying, detection, reading, behavior, amanda, knox, interview

Id: 38o4LCR7FuI

Length: 38min 39sec (2319 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 21 2020