candra screamed. her dog instinctively attacked tom, and tom shot her dog, rusty, in self-defense. and then he panicked because he had a prior record, was known to the police, and that no one would believe him. so tom had no desire to explain the incident to police and gave candra the choice between staying with him or heading back to town. i had no way of getting down. i couldn t even drive. i didn t have a license. i didn t know how to drive a stick. confused and in shock, candra stayed with brown. but after two days, they reconsidered and decided to notify the authorities. he told them that there had been a shooting, and it was an accident, and she backed up his story. he then cooperated and took them to where the body was, helped them recover the rifle.
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fishing and boating, and deep forests filled with game. candra and julio torres chose this area for a weekend camping trip. they were young. julio was 21. candra just 16. it was pretty much love at first sight. my father wanted us to get married when i was 15, because he could see that the relationship was heating up. the trip celebrated their first wedding anniversary, and they brought candra s dog, rusty, along. although they loved to fish, they weren t catching anything, so they asked one of the other fishermen who was there for a little advice. when he saw me, he lit up, which was not i didn t think anything of it. i was very young, attractive,
for me, denial was the best way to survive. we all tell ourselves little lies, and sometimes big lies, to make ourselves feel more comfortable, and certainly when our survival is at stake, i mean, you can change your perception of things. this made her polygraph test useless. if she doesn t know in her own mind what is truth and what is fiction, how can she possibly react properly to a polygraph examination? there is a reason, and a very good reason that polygraph examinations are not admissible in courts of law. in this incident, tom brown passed the polygraph. and in this instance, mrs. torres flunked the polygraph. i firmly believe that both results are dead wrong. prosecutors now accepted the idea that candra was brainwashed. but how would they prove that julio had been murdered? she could testify to what he said. she could testify about what happened to the dog.
hunting accident. later, she claimed that tom brown murdered her husband while she was back at the campsite. to find out which version was correct, forensic psychiatrist dr. joseph treleaven interviewed candra for several hours. i concluded that she didn t have any mental disorder. she was under some stress because she s had a stressful experience, but that was all. but why did candra initially vouch for tom brown, the man she now says killed her husband? frankly, at first i didn t know what to make about it. i remembered the stories of what happened to the prisoners of war in the korean war and where they were isolated, often brutalized, often for fear of their life.