Revisiting the Interview

http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=360937&originalStoryID=360797&r=

Questions and answers from an interview with Bobby Cutts Jr., from Wed, June 20.

Let's have a look, in light of his recent arrest (apologies to the Canton Repository for using the text in full):


The Repository's Todd Porter spoke with Bobby Cutts Jr. in an exclusive interview Tuesday from his home. Here are the questions and answers from that. Cutts declined to answer specific questions, as related to his involvement in the investigation, on advice from legal counsel. (I'd like to know what he refused to answer)

Q. What have the last five days been like?

A. The last five days have been a nightmare. It won't end. Every second of it seems like it's going to change, it goes back to being the same or it gets worse. I cant sleep; I can't eat. Anybody who knows me knows I'm joking around and laughing. I try to have fun and make everyone else laugh. It's just been hell.

Notice (as many have) that he is concerned with what the past five days have done to HIM.

Q. What's your normal personality?

(Remember that this is the sort of question that a sports reporter would ask a football player in a normal sports interview. I'd love to know if the reporter had been briefed by the police)

A. I'm like one of the silliest guys in the whole world. My friends tell me all the time I'm retarded. I'm a happy person. Every day up until this, I wake up and have to make at least one person laugh today.

(Poor baby! can't fulfil his mission in life with all the people around. And who, in this day and age, would use the word "retarded" in this context? when I heard the interview, I noticed that he kind of mumbled the word, as if he might have thought, at the last second, that it might not be PC)

Q. Is this experience surreal? Have you read or watched much of the media coverage?

A. This is like the worst ... I can't even imagine. This is like a movie - It nowhere near seems like reality. It's terrible.

(Notice that he sidesteps the question. He is not sure a) what "surreal" means, and b) whether or not a sympathetic innocent man would have been watching the news, or how he would react to it.)

Q. How are you holding up? How do you cope?

A. I'm really not holding up. I'm trying to. If it wasn't for my family and friends, I don't know. I'm just numb. I cry. I stare into space. (Weeps) I don't know. It doesn't seem like it's real.

(He knows he should be grieving, i.e., not holding up. "I don't know. It doesn't seem like it's real" is the truth, maybe more so than Bobby realized at the time)

Q. When is the last time you spoke to Jessie?

A. I last spoke with her on Wednesday evening, I think around 8.

(Lie!)

Q. As a police officer, you probably realize that boyfriends/girlfriends are suspected when someone goes missing or there is suspected foul play, as there is in this case. So are you surprised that some wonder if you are a suspect?

( The reporter is treading carefully, here. He doesn't want Bobby to clam up)

A. I mean, I'm not surprised. They had to start somewhere. For them to start with me, that's understandable.

Q. Are you and Kelly in the process of getting a divorce?

A. We've had discussion about divorce. We talk and communicate, but we haven't sat down and filed.

(Once again, he's ducking the question. He thinks it may make him look more guilty if there actually is a divorce in the works)

Q. Do you understand why people are portraying you in a certain light? You're a married man who has fathered one child and is expecting a second out of wedlock?

A. I mean, I understand that, but everyone has problems. Me and my wife, we're still married. We weren't together and things happened when we weren't together.

(Like that makes it OK? Every time he and his wife had a fight, he ran out and knocked Jessie up?)

Q. Did you see Jessie Wednesday evening?

A. I did not see Jessie.

(Lie!)

Q. Do you have an attorney? Are you in regular communication with your attorney?

A. Yes, I do. No, he's just there for advisement if I need him.

(Downplaying the need for an attorney)

Q. How would you describe the national media coverage of Jessie's disappearance?

A. I think the national media coverage is great if it's focused in the right direction. I can't even go out in my yard without being bombarded with cameras.

(ME! ME! POOR ME! He wishes the nice reporters would go away so he can go call on some booty)

Q. What was the nature of your relationship with ex-girlfriend Nikki Giavasis?

A. Me and Nikki dated in college. We had a daughter. Our relationship ended about '99 or so. Our lives went in different directions. We had a child together. It's been pretty much an up-and-down battle for me to spend time with my daughter or see my daughter since then.

(Carefully stated. He has thought this one out, or discussed it with his lawyer)

Q. Did you "steal" the child you had with Nikki for six months?

A. That is totally not true. We've gone through a custody battle for about two years now. The last ruling here in Ohio, where the case has taken place, I was given custody of my daughter until a final ruling was made. My daughter was going to school here the whole first semester. She was doing great. She had straight As; she was involved in soccer. She had friends. I let her speak with her mother any time she wanted. A couple days after Christmas, I let her go visit her mom, and she wasn't returned. I have not stolen my daughter.

(Such a nice guy, to "let" his daughter call her mother any time she wanted! Heaven knows where, in the vast spectrum between his version and Nikki's, lies the truth.)

Q. Have you watched much of the coverage?

A. I try not to watch it. ... The people who are commenting have no idea what's going on, or they have misinformation. It's ridiculous. They're doing it as news entertainment, but it's not. It's terrible. It's crazy. My family and friends have been calling and stopping by. My pastor. ... I'm not in a normal routine. I'm a coach. I haven't been a coach at all this week. That's not the most important thing, but it's one of the things I haven't been able to do.

(My pastor, my family, my coaching)

Q. When do you think you will have a normal day again?

A. Honestly, I don't know. I have no idea what a normal day even resembles right now.

(He will be very unhappy when he finds out what "normal" is going to be for him)

Q. How well do you know Patty Porter and Jessie's sisters, Whitney and Audrey?

A. I know them as being family members of my son and being Jessie's family members. I don't know great detail about them.

(Translation: Jessie's family didn't like him, weren't around him, and probably avoided him whenever possible)

Q. How is Blake doing?

A. He's dealing with it as best as he can. He's only 2. He misses his mother. ... I spoke with him a couple of times or tried to. (Tried to speak with Blake. I'll bet Jessie's family wasn't allowing a lot of that)

Q. How many children do you have?

A. Currently I have three children.

(Currently, or concurrently?)(Is one of Kelly's daughters not his, then?)

Q. You're expecting a second with Jessie?

A. Possibly.

(Originally, I took this to mean that he was afraid that potential child might be dead. That's back when I was entertaining the possibility that he might not have done this horrible thing. I have since changed my mind, and now see this statement as the ultimate betrayal. Ultimate, as in "last." To cast aspersions on the reputation of the woman you have just killed seems beyond cold, to me. This is a man who would stop at nothing to get his sorry ass off the hook.)

Q. What's your typical day?

A. It doesn't have a beginning or an end. It all runs together.

(That is about to change)