Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Pak's Email to CBS

I was surprised not to see this mentioned on WS. At exactly 29:00 of the 48 Hours episode...
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50151326n

...there's an email sent (on June 5, 2012) from Pak to CBS. They just flash it up there for a second, but what can be read of it says:
I never touched her. I was never closer than 5 feet away from her. When I saw her crouching behind the couch in a paranoid state she reminded me of Johnny depp in the movies...

Now, we don't know the context of what he'd been asked by CBS. His train of thought here might make sense if, for instance, he'd been asked "Did you touch her? If not, how close did you get to her?  By the way, what movie actor did she remind you of?". Absent that series of questions, though, I think Pak's statement is a little odd. He's referring to chasing her through the neighborhood, not catching up, and then throws in a comment about her psychological state while in JB's house. A bit of jumping around, yes?  One more gratuitous and unqualified psych analysis, I guess; fits in perfectly with Varrone's characterization of the 911 call (Varrone apparently doesn't know what the word "stupor" means, but I'm sure that doesn't stop him from using it all the time).

Question for Pak, just from that text: if you never got closer than 5 feet from her, that means that at least at some point you were that close - did she run off into the brush, duck down a street, just disappear into thin air? No one could accuse you of keeping too close of an eye on her, that's for sure.

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