Marissa Randazzo

Essentially, what confirmation bias is that once you develop a theory, it's human nature to seek out information that confirms that theory and disregard information that would undercut that theory. It appeared that they were not pursuing alternate possibilities as with as many resources or sort of energy as they were their theory that it was Deborah and or Jeremy.

I helped really to talk through with Phil around what angle, what to think about when talking with someone who may be responsible for the disappearance or we were really concerned about possibly the death of baby Lisa. So we know that the parents, especially the mother, was under suspicion by law enforcement.

And to figure out kind of what the different angles were, why parents, especially mothers, the sort of top motivations of why they do kill their children, and to use those angles and perspectives to help formulate the questions that Phil would be asking them.

Phil's reaction coming out of this was, no matter the angle that we tried, no matter the approach of the question, she was answering them truthfully and not showing deception.

So just from the statistics standpoint, it didn't surprise me that law enforcement was really going after Deborah and also Jeremy.

From the criminal psychologist side of me, I wondered what involvement she or her husband might have had.