I've been thinking a lot about Kerri, his daughter, today. I can't begin to imagine her life. I'm the type I would just literally crawl into a hole and hide if one of my family members did that. She sure enjoys the limelight. It may be what she needs to heal and come to peace with this. But, jeepers, who goes after their serial killer parent like this, and so publicly? I know she says she's trying to help and I believe her. But on Twitter, she just posts nonstop and is super competitive. Always offended by someone and calling them out. I dunno. Anyway.
I'm glad you wrote this because I'm so much the same about her. I am sooo back and forth. I don't want to come out and say it but at times I feel she is like her dad, needing to be special, in control and the one in charge, etc. Then when I have that thought, I feel like a totally nasty person and I guilt myself over it and don't share it or say it to that point on here for instance. I know nothing of her on Twitter etc. but I sure have seen her on more than a few shows.
I sympathize, of course we can't empathize as we haven't been there but I can't even imagine what it would be like to be his daughter or a daughter of others like Rader. Or a son. I to a point understand the need for herself to feel confident, to be in charge, because of all that's went on, etc. but it's more than that.
Yes he comes across as competitive, as a know it all, as no one can solve any serial killer case without her and HER DAD. They definitely can't solve these possible other ones without her, she is the key in her mind. She acts as though she IS the investigator and I've said before it is "my" investigators, my this and my that as if she is the Chief or Sheriff.
She goes on about what it takes to be out there and all the news and other important people wanting her on their show, etc., etc. and needing her and her time and she can only do so much.
I do believe she thinks she is helping and trying to help. I would not want to be in her shoes. But she does turn me off at times. And I think she is far from where she needs to be at times. Her dad thought he was better and smarter than LE and in some weird way she is acting about the same. I in NO WAY mean that as she'd do what he did, NEVER, but he may have put a competitive and need to feel superior or smarter in her without her maybe realizing. And that can be in a not so bad way. Competitive at sports, to win against her dad in this, or against LE who doesn't recognize she and her dad are the answers. That remark about LISK and NY law enforcement oh boy. The like four people on that show did not call her out on it but kind of soft soaped what she said and danced around it...
Kind of like her just calling out the Missouri I think lead detective in these other cases and saying on News Nation she thinks little of her and basically condeming her and then that woman was on with News Nation and she not once condemned Kerri but she said of many things, there was no evidence of any of these things some in the public and online seem to believe and not sure where it came from... It came from his daughter. She rubbed me wrong starting in the Kohberger case. She realy rubbed me wrong in the LISK/Gilgo case....
I hope I am making sense. And then the next time I see her on I do often feel she has very good insight and points and I recommend watching something with her on it.
But she is not the investigator, she is not the sheriff, she is not the FBI, in her dad's case or any other. However, she takes an attitude of telling them on these shows of what they need to be doing and as if she is running the show, they are her employees, etc.
Mostly, honestly, she turns me off but then she will make me think she is telling the truth and sharing some things about the recent investigations we don't know. And shares things that I'm not sure now may be untrue or she has no basis for like the blanket with Garber...
There's been a lot that has put me off but the remark in LISK/Gilgo as to how NY messed up not coming to her and her dad was beyond my understanding. And once hearing that every time she disses like this Missouri investigator or anyone else in LE makes me wonder what her credentials are (NOT) that means all should be coming to her in any case anywhere, etc. AND her dad. That was the part that really got me as to WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
And don't start me on the suing and support of ASA, the LISK murderer's wife. Kerri sits on shows saying how ASA had nothing to do with anything and knew nothing and there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY she could know that. None of us can or do. And she most certainly does NOT.
Yeah, I don't know. I think my conflicted and back and forth opinion of her has come through here in the various cases. I started before seeing all this in Kohberger and her coming in. That was the first real glimpse. Then it was Gilgo. And NOW it is her dad and a new look at some other cases...Too tired to wrap my head around it any further but just think about that... Three at least different places in just the last bit of time... Different cases, etc. and in each of them she thinks she is paramount or her dad is... From Kansas to Idaho to NY... In just months...