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Payne Episode 19 interview with Brooke

E-Mond
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:27:48 GMT

This episode, for the first time, Payne become emotional and lost some credibility in my eyes. This was the first time he disappointed me as a journalist. He took a side instead of just portraying the facts. What does everyone else think. I still love the podcast, but did not enjoy him shifting from responsible journalist to a bit of an internet troll.

SlickWilly
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:36:06 GMT

I'm under the impression it's a female

victoriasecrets
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:56:21 GMT

It was a female, slick

georgia1234
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:22:49 GMT

@undersea - I just spit my water out! I wasn't expecting to read that about the escort possibly being a man/transvestite. I shouldn't be shocked I suppose on anything when it comes to Bo though.

undersea_captive
Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:40:22 GMT

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beachgirl
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 02:16:24 GMT

Bo and Brooke have remained together throughout this entire time, correct? At least thatā€™s what his FB seemed to indicate.

whodunnit01
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:15:26 GMT

Not being a ā€œjournalistā€ or having ever conducted any type of interview, I took his behavior has being ā€œrealā€. You see it every once in a great while on the news or other interviews. I think it makes him a real person who has gotten emotionally vested in this case.

tommy05
Wed, 12 Sep 2018 04:42:40 GMT

So Brooke is a dude? Halfway through episode 19... Brooke bugs AF

canadiana4
Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:14:14 GMT

I read this thread before listening to Ep 19 and wasn't sure what to expect. I was almost a little proud of Payne, allowing listeners a small snapshot of his humanity. The podcast has been incredibly professional up until this point and I applaud Payne for not editing out the emotional pieces of his conversations with Brooke. Perhaps it was intentional, with the hope of endearing him to listeners, in an episode where Brooke questions his journalistic integrity. (Sorry, I am a skeptic at heart!).

agentscully
Sat, 29 Sep 2018 15:17:02 GMT

Payne's tone was exactly how I would've responded to her and I applaud him for it. Brooke should be held up on obstruction of justice charges for waiting so long to come forward. Bo, Ryan and Brooke are all sick individuals.

investig8
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 19:53:07 GMT

Brooke is an enabler. She makes excuse after excuse for Bo and a lot of what she says contradicts itself. Here are some things that bug me... 1. it is strange that Ryan won't tell Bo why he did it, but gave him details about personal items he had of Tara's (Purse & keys) and what he did with them? And when Brooke asks Bo why Ryan did it, he still maintains that he doesn't know but goes on to speculate that it's because "Ryan wanted to know what it felt like?" That's quite speculative... Or is it projection? 2. Brooks says that she didn't want the details of what they did to the body but then is OK sitting through and recounting a description of what the body looked like days after Tara was killed? 3. Bo has Post Partum Stress Disorder? When did he have a baby? What kind of "medical professional" is this woman? 4. She has a memory book that records all this? Maybe it should be taken into evidence if it holds all this key information. 5. Bo stayed out in the orchard for weeks after they burned Tara's body to make peace and amends? Or just to cover his ass? He has ample op portunity to go and report or turn himself in if he was worried about making amends. Can anyone attest to him doing this? Who were all the people at the party at Bo's place??? 6. When Payne asks why Bo didn't go to the police Brooke says it was tons of reasons, most of which that Bo was scared and his family would be angry. Brooke goes on to say the only reason Bo reported was because she made him confess. Really, that's all it took? I think more likely that they concocted a scheme to report, stage a break up, she gets the reward, he gets immunity, great deal for them both. 7. They give her to option of wearing a wire or recording a phone conversation. She refuses the wire cause "she was moving stuff" but could she not have called him? She called to ask if she could come over and he was all upset on the call, she couldn't have initiated a conversation then to record? 8. Brooke says Bo stayed quiet out of loyalty to a friend? Didn't he tell others he hates Ryan? 9. Payne asks Brooke what justice is to her and she replies she is in a tough spot. In what way? They aren't together any longer and she knows that Bo, at the very least, helped dispose of and set fire to a body. How is that a tough spot? Does Tara not deserve justice? 10. Brooke says Bo was planning on walking in to turn himself in? When? in between wanting to become a mercenary and stealing from the U.S. government? And becoming a mercenary IMO has less to do with him feeling suicidal and more with being paid to kill people. 11. She says she tries to be an empathizer. She says she does not have empathy for Ryan because what he did was awful but has empathy for Bo because what he did was self preservation? Give me a break. How many more excuses can she make for him? There is no excuse for what he did, PERIOD. Justify it all you want, Brooke. It was WRONG. And Payne is absolutely right to question her about that. She goes on to try and justify it by saying, "Well what if they didn't burn the body but disposed of it in some other way?" WHAT?? 12. She uses the excuse that if he turned himself in they would have put him on death row. So, what your saying is that the excuse is that he had no culpability and shouldn't have come forward on the chance they thought he did it? So, it is a better option to lie about it? Payne was right to say, "Just tell the truth and not worry about your damn self." Bingo. He was more restrained in his replies and questions than she deserved with her flippant responses and excuses for Bo. It's nauseating. 13. I don't believe her "crying" for one minute. It sounded completely fake to me. Then she goes on to talk about how she didn't deserve to be in the spotlight. Well, when you date a felon and you then report his crimes to the GBI and then give Payne hell for not contacting you earlier to be on his podcast, you cannot then go on to give him hell for saying your name on his podcast. Pick a lane, lady. 14. It is ludicrous that she blames the state of Bo's life on Payne. Seriously? Bo committed several crimes, on his own, without Payne's help. And then Brooke starts trying to manipulate what everyone has said by calling Dustin. She sure seems intent on trying to protect Bo. Why? So they can protect their ability to get the reward? Dustin is right in calling her crazy and vindictive. Sorry if there is some reiteration from Payne's thoughts at the end of the episode. I wrote this as I was listening. But interesting we picked up on some of the same discrepancies.

agentscully
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:43:52 GMT

I couldnā€™t agree with you more! I cracked up when she said post partum stress disorder. Her discrepancies were alarming and how is this woman not brought up on obstruction of justice charges?

lilbrat
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:22:10 GMT

šŸ˜‚Pick a lane, Lady...

din89
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:49:10 GMT

I'm a little late to this discussion but going back to the original post I agree how it was less than professional. This is no doubt payne's podcast and he can say and do whatever he wants as far as its concerned but in my opinion he could have been a little more professional during the phone call. I'm not inclined to believe anything Brooke said directly pertaining to Bo's involvement or the case, their version of the story just has too many holes.

din89
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:59:37 GMT

I'm sure I'll receive some backlash for this next post, however Brooke did say a few things that I feel have some legitimacy behind them. When people think about what they would have done in Bo's position (if we're going with his narrative of what happened, Ryan dumping the body on his family's land) its easy to say we would have done the right thing and immediately gone to the authorities. AND i will say there are many who would, but I don't think it totally unreasonable to say that right there in the moment with a dead body right there in front of you, and overwhelming evidence pointing to you, and your best friend standing there in front of you asking for help, your brain is in overdrive and you're not thinking clearly, its a classic "oh shit" panic moment and you make a rash decision. In NO way am I condoning this type of reaction or making excuses for any person(s) involved; but if we take a moment to think about it I wouldn't say for certain that the decision in and of itself to hide the body was initially was malicious. Wrong for sure though. Maybe a simplified an alogy would help to see where I am coming from: When you're driving down the interstate, and you see you're getting pulled over, has it never crossed anyone's mind, even if just for a moment, "I could floor it, and get away". The difference between that thought and what Bo did is that for us it stays a thought, we do the right thing and pull over, but doing the wrong thing DID cross your mind,

investig8
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 01:53:22 GMT

Perhaps. IF that is indeed the scenario that happened, which I highly doubt IMO.

reddirtandpine
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 01:57:10 GMT

No. Brooke was full of shit.

din89
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 02:38:02 GMT

@reddirtandpine No doubt she was full of shit. IMO she herself is looking to gain some sort of fame and recognition in the eyes of the community. I feel as if she is a deeply troubled person, but in the end it is not up to me or you to judge her. that is between her and her god. Its blatantly obvious that in some instances she pretends to know more than she does, and in other instances she hides what she might know. The whole situation is very unsettling

reddirtandpine
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 03:16:05 GMT

Because of the second indictment we know Bo first was questioned in June about his involvement burning Taraā€™s body. He was with Brooke then, and he filed paperwork in 2017 that said he couldnā€™t pay his restitution because he had to pay a lawyer to defend against a matter that happened years ago (Tara). We canā€™t really know when he told Brooke, because she only told her mom, and subsequently, the GBI, about what happened, when they were broken up in Jan or Feb after. Thereā€™s a lot to question here, about her motive for telling and Boā€™s part in that decision. Bo said to a friend in text messages that Brooke might get the reward money. Maybe they planned that together. Itā€™s plausible. I have also considered that heā€™s an abusive pos, and she was afraid of him. Either way, I donā€™t think we can accept her word as the truth.

din89
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 03:20:50 GMT

I completely agree, whether she was Being truthful/completely truthful was neve in question for me. Even if she believes sheā€™s being truthful, thereā€™s very little evidence pointing to the fact that she was even told the truth, which would in turn make her statements inaccurate. I think many others feel the very same way.

haileyk
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 23:10:34 GMT

I think he was right to get frustrated with her. She was justifying her boyfriend burning a body because he was a "kid". I'm glad he stood up for Tara, because Brooke was just coming up with excuses to help burn a young woman's body.

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