First of 5 Esar Met confession videos.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=448_1416957293 Here is a rough outline of the 'confession'. The young man who confessed is now serving life without parole.
Detective asks if he goes by "Esar Met" or "Samad" and he says "Samad". Apparently that is the name he goes by, maybe a nickname. Media reports suggest he was giving a false name, but he was just giving his name.
FBI agent says " You obviously know why you're here". Met seems a little confused and sort of agrees. Shortly after, he is asked again and indicates he is not sure why he is there.
FBI agent lists some evidence and says "you were very sloppy". In a later part of the confession the police ask what happened to the blanket and sheets from the bed. Apparently they were used to move the body and the killer threw them away. Met responds something like " I fold the blanket in the morning when I wake up".
Again Met says to the translator "what is it that the police want?".
Miranda rights are explained by the translator at the rate of about 1 English word equals 5 Burmese words. In a later hearing the translator acknowledged telling Esar Met that if he didn't confess it would take a long time.
At the end of a confusing back and forth about his 'rights' Met says "It is cold." Some reports suggest he may be mildly retarded.
In his first lengthy statement, Met says he played with the girl and gave her rides on a bicycle. He says he did not know she was dead.
He says his uncle called and asked him to fix a bicycle tire. A friend helped him buy glue or tire sealant.
He seems to say that he knows the name of the person who helped him buy the glue, but the FBI agent cuts him off and redirects to getting a confession rather than first getting information. At no point in media articles does it appear anyone tried to verify that his visit to his uncle was planned. Instead he is portrayed as " fleeing", when in truth it appears he just left on a planned visit to help his uncle. If someone did buy the glue then it proves the visit was planned and that at least one person in the apartment complex knew he would be gone. It also strongly indicates he left the apartment complex too early to be the killer. He had just arrived in the U.S., had never been to his uncle's and apparently met with his uncle somewhere on the bus route he knew, so his uncle could show him where he lived. The aunt was not aware of the visit but in that society it would not be unusual for the uncle to invite male family without specifically mentioning it.
The FBI agent starts asking if Met thought the girl was "beautiful". Met says he considered her like a sister. The translator condescends politely a bit to the FBI agent, suggesting the FBI agent is overdoing it. From then the FBI agent starts treating the translator with impatience. This is meaningful later.
The FBI agent insists Hser Ner Moo came to Met's house. Met agrees. He says three children came to his apartment, probably watching tv. The FBI agent keeps insisting Met killed the child. Met is trying to appease the FBI agent. Met says again " It is not possible". Met is trying to agree with the police and finally says Hser came by around 9 am. But she was home until 2 pm, so obviously Met is just trying to appease the FBI agent. The FBI agent then says "did she come back around 2pm?" and he agrees. The FBI agent asks how long she stayed and Met says "about three hours". But the latest Met could have left his apartment was about an hour after Hser disappeared, and it is likely he left earlier. At this point the FBI agent realizes that he can get Met to confess to anything, the challenge will simply be to make the confession believable.
Later Met says that when he was at his uncle's house someone called looking for the girl. He says he was not worried because the apartment complex is a limited area and the child probably just wandered off a bit. The FBI agent continues with questions like "Did you mean to kill her". Again and again the FBI agent gets angry and says " don't lie" and says the one good thing Met can do is help the family get closure. The FBI agent tries to cut off all conversation from Met that is not a confession. At this point the translator is intimidated by the FBI agent and also starts agreeing with him, even when he clearly does not agree.
This video was 30 minutes and 3 seconds. So far there is no indication Met is going to confess, except for the unwillingness of the FBI agent to accept any words from him that are not a confession.
Met is fairly small. The FBI agent, somewhat healthier physically, repeatedly leans into him and clearly is trying to intimidate Met into going along with what the FBI agent wants.
The police and FBI do not want the investigation reopened. Their reputations hinge on Hser Ner Moo being dead within an hour of disappearance. If someone else killed her then she may have still been alive while authorities were debating
whether to issue an amber alert. There is some indication, from the fact that when she was found after 29 hours rigor mortis
had not yet begun to recede, that she may have been alive much more than one hour after disappearing.
Esar Met's roommates were also interviewed
here and
here and
here. One of the interviews involves a mysterious 6th person who was in the apartment. He claims he walked through the police barrier at the crime scene after the body was found and was there to study English with one of the roommates. The FBI agent who got Met to confess conducted two of the six interviews. The one with Met and the one with the 6th person.
The last time Met was reliably seen at the apartment complex was about an hour before the girl disappeared. The last possible time he could have left and then arrived at the latest possible estimate of when he got to his uncle's, was an hour after the girl disappeared.
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