Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "EXPLORE WITH US" channel.

@dearthofdoohickeys4703 The only time to start confessing is after thrashing it out with a lawyer and deciding together to approach the prosecution. That's when it could conceivably be of benefit, to all concerned.
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@kishiyomo993 Actually, abuse victims will say over and over that they love their abusers. As for jealousy among brothers, it has been noticed: I refer you to Cain and Abel.
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This is usually legal. Even a minor must ask for an attorney and family member. Kids need to be told this explicitly.
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A lawyer's son doesn't know he should remain silent and ask for a lawyer. He doesn't know they must charge him or release him in 72 hours, which is why they want the confession -- to be sure they can put him in jail. Every interrogation of a suspect is designed to jail them, not to "get to the truth."
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He gave him the Miranda -- you are supposed to know to invoke it, and not to believe his insinuation that it's a formality. They had zero evidence at that point to hold him.
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The son of a lawyer doesn't know anything about the law. He doesn't know that police can lie to him. He doesn't know that he doesn't have to talk to them. He doesn't know that the time for a full and truthful confession (the whole truth and nothing but the truth) is after he has spoken to a lawyer and his lawyer has approached the prosecutor. He doesn't know to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights as soon as they start accusing him, if not before. Literally does not know anything. (He was a "good student?") The police at this point cannot be absolutely sure this was not a murder suicide. Even if there seems to be a much likelier explanation, even if neither of the deceased adults has a gun near their bodies. No autopsy has been completed yet, no gunpowder residue tests have been performed. The truth is sometimes very strange, and confessions are often false. If they had sufficient evidence against him, they could hold him without a confession. A confession at this point is to ensure he can be placed in jail immediately and kept there.
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If there's no evidence that they are guilty, why should they be held?
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@huejay5388 A person of interest must be charged or released within 72 hours. If there isn't sufficient evidence to support a charge, he must be released.
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@huejay5388 Of course these videos shouldn't be posted. They violate the privacy of three innocent minors.
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@dearthofdoohickeys4703 They should never argue. No one should. Just remain silent. It's the one thing you are allowed to do. They had no evidence at this point, so early in the investigation. That's why they had to press: they have to charge or release within 72 hours.
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@dearthofdoohickeys4703 Preaching to the choir.
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Well, chances are they could not have developed enough evidence within 72 hours to charge him, so they needed to press for a confession. If he had remained silent, there is some chance they would have had to release him. That's why they go for the interrogation right away. A case like this could have been a murder suicide, even without a gun near any of the bodies. They had no autopsies, and no evidence about which gun killed them, or even if it was just one gun. No one mentions blood splatter or gunpowder residue. If my child, at 15, had been one of the other three, I am not sure I would have wanted him to be interrogated. Everyone has the right to remain silent. No one has a right to lie to investigators, and each of these kids could be considered less than truthful. That's normal at their age, after such a trauma. But it's on their juvenile record now, video and all.
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Yes. Four life terms, but with possibility of parole.
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@acornflake5074 I saw only Nick being read his rights. As for the other three, I would have told my child not to agree to talk to police at all.
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@acornflake5074 Well . . . there is this video out now, with all three of them filmed while they were minors. Did they give permission for this posting? Not something I would advise anyone to do. I'm talking about the innocent ones, of course!
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Police had no probable cause to arrest him for the murders at that point. That was why they pressed for a confession. If he had remained silent, either they would have had to develop enough evidence to arrest him, or they would have had to let him go.
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You should never lie to law enforcement investigating a murder, for anyone. That is why you have the right to remain silent.
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He failed to ask for one.
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Police have a right to lie to persons of interest or to potential witnesses. We have the right to remain silent.
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@KaraKubed Our state had an innocent man on death row in that exact position. He came home to find his parents murdered. He was on death row for nearly two years before it was uncovered that a motorcycle gang of meth dealers did it. He and his parents were farmers. He was an adult, by the way.
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I think it encourages the ones who abuse alcohol and drugs, and live in infantile fantasy and disassociation to believe that you can shoot someone and they will be back to their old selves by the morning.
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Well, I could never go that far, but I will say that there is no country in Europe where a 15 year old child could possible get a sentence of life in prison. Adult serial killers with severe mental illnesses have been freed to a halfway house after 30 years. It depends on whether they can be rehabilitated and monitored. At sentencing, it was revealed that Nick had a severe alcohol abuse problem, much worse than what he confesses here (surprised?), and that he has severe dissociative disorder, like you see in trauma victims. That is why his relatives begged for leniency, not because they are perverse. Killing his brothers was the part that was the most depraved. How can anyone explain that by parental abuse? A family where one child is abused and another is favored is harming all the kids. Nick was old enough to realize that.
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Nothing. You have a right to remain silent. They can hold you for 72 hours without charges. After that, they have to charge you or let you go. Confessions to police are to help them to hold you over for charges. It can never help you to confess to them. In fact, anything you might misstate can be considered obstruction of justice or be used to impeach your credibility later. A full and truthful confession can only help once you've talked to a lawyer and you decide to approach the prosecution. They did not have enough to hold him at the time of this interrogation. It's not evident that they would have had enough within the 72 hour window.
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They can, unless he declines to talk to them. They can try.
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@chelseastevenson8767 Any one of these kids could have declined. Everyone has a right to remain silent. What they cannot do is lie.
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At sentencing, a psychiatrist testified that he had a severe alcohol abuse problem, much worse than he's telling the detective here, and severe dissociative disorder.
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In the US, everyone has the right to remain silent. The detective noticed this kid was less mature than the others, so he pressed him and threatened him with nonsense. The other three kids didn't realize that police had no reason to hold them at all. They were all free to go, and Nick had to be charged or released in 72 hours. In the US, police investigating a crime are allowed to lie. Anyone is allowed to refuse to talk to them. But now, three young juveniles have a video of them out there, showing the world what they said and did.
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@metrez4537 Oh come on. He keeps insinuating that this is what "must have" happened. The fact is that at sentencing, it was revealed that Nick had a much worse alcohol problem than he admits (surprise, surprise), and that he has severe dissociation, which you find in traumatized children. He may have had an obsession about his father loving his brothers but hating him. He drank enough to have cognitive damage, at his age.
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@metrez4537 He doesn't have characteristics of it. That's to make us feel better about the horror of these murders. We have to believe he is fundamentally different from half the other 15 year olds with his social history.
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w @metrez4537 So the facts themselves are bad enough. I agree with the OP. I didn't know you were a forensic psychiatrist. Wow.
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@metrez4537 Yeah, I think killing people is Bad. I don't even eat animals or kill spiders, much less sweet, tender, sleepy little brothers. I hope you are reassured.
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@kishiyomo993 You're the only person whose mind went there. We may conclude that you are the groomer. A forensic psychologist you are not.
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@kishiyomo993 Then why did YOU bring it up? Cf. Cain and Abel
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@kishiyomo993 No one said that -- except you. You are fixated on groomer, whatever that means to you. It is a legal concept, in fact, inapplicable here. Blocked.
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@Killbayne If they have no probable cause to place you in jail, you most certainly will be allowed to leave. That's what they need the confession for, to hold you. Otherwise, they have a short window during which they can detain you while they investigate. Don't you know your rights? There was no murder weapon, no autopsies, no gunpowder residue test, no blood on Nick -- on what basis could they hold him? Confessing to the police gives them all the reason they need to keep you in jail. The time for a confession that can help YOU is after you consult a lawyer and you and your lawyer approach the prosecutor. Then you tell the whole truth and nothing but.
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Just like adults, they must assert their right to remain silent and to have a lawyer or parent present. I can see why that's unfortunate for minors this young, but they do have that right. Teach people to invoke their rights. Then there won't be cringe videos of them out there ten+ years later.
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They certainly did not have enough evidence to hold him. They didn't even have autopsies, a murder weapon, or gun power residue, or any evidence that Nick had had blood on him. They made up the story about the keys, which was a risk. An older suspect might not have fallen for it, but a child would, to "set them straight." Police are allowed to lie to a suspect to elicit a confession. The person does not, however, have a right to lie to police. He has a right to remain silent and to demand a lawyer. The time for a full confession is after you have an attorney and are ready to approach the prosecution.
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There is no death penalty for juveniles.
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@RealRapEST I laughed
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The reason they won't be, is because then more people would actually remain silent.
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@hf2138 The other three kids were free to decline to talk to police. They didn't have to talk at all. None of the others would have been held.
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Sadly, that is the law. He certainly can remain silent, and being that young, in most states he can request having family present as well. But he has got to assert himself. Now that there is a video of these guys as minors, I hope people realize that they should all have exercised their right to remain silent.
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@hf2138 LOLOL
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At sentencing, a psychiatrist diagnosed him with severe alcohol abuse and severe dissociative disorder. He has won fiction prizes while in prison. The act of killing his brothers is chilling and appears psychopathic. The rest, less so.
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Police have a right to lie to suspects. People have no right to lie to police. All of these kids had a right to remain silent. There was no gunpowder residue test, no autopsies, no murder weapon -- the point of getting him to confess was to be certain they could hold him. It doesn't help him at all. After an offender gets an attorney and talks to him, and he is charged and a prosecutor is assigned to the case, only then does making a full confession makes sense. Police can never do anything for you, nor would they.
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Give me a break. Or a stock tip. Or lotto numbers.
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He was a coward.
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It doesn't say that. What it does say is that he has been given awards for his writing. At sentencing, it was established that he was a severe alcohol abuser, which you hear him downplay, of course, and that he had dissociative disorder, not any form of psychopathy. I don't know why this narrator is diagnosing him with psychopathy. I see no signs of it at all. I see a person without a grasp of reality or agency, and extremely immature. People want to believe that there is something unusual about him. I wish.
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