Showing No Emotion
“Our phone call didn’t go very well,” he said. “She just told me a bunch of cruel stuff, and she blocked his (friend’s) number.” Afterward, Riley told detectives that he went to his grandparents’ house for a little while before heading back to campus. Once he got there, Riley claimed to have cried in his car for “two, three hours” over his breakup with Emma.
But Merritt said that as he was describing this in the interrogation room, Riley was “emotionless.” “His interview was probably one of the more disconnected. It almost seemed rehearsed, deliberate,” Merritt explained.