The following story is from Colebrook Chronicle. Statement analysis and commentary are added in bold type, and underlining has been added to the original for emphasis. Unfortunately, there are no direct quotes from the mother, which would have been valuable for analysis, but we are able to pinpoint two important aspects of analysis from the article. Please note that prior analysis on Wendell Noyes is referenced.
Details on Celina’s lastnight alive described
So much has been said during the past two weeks about what happened on the last night that Celina Cass was seen alive in her Washington Street home in West Stewartstown.
The weekly newspaper, the Colebrook Chronicle, published a review of the last night of Celina’s life in its issue today, in conjunction with today’s edition of The Telegraph.
According to a source close to the family, Celina and her mom, Louisa Noyes, were sitting on the couch in the living room watching “The Secret Life of An American Teenager” together on the ABC Family Channel. When the show was over at 9 p.m., Celina decided to watch another show and was also back and forth on the family computer, which was in the living room. Louisa Noyes said goodnight to her daughter, and went upstairs to go to sleep.
"Goodnight" in Statement Analysis. Greets, salutations, departing words, etc, are all important in Statement Analysis, but it is not that something was said that is important. What is important that it was sensitive enough to the subject to include it in the statement. Since we all say "good morning!" or "good night" to our loved ones, it is rare that such will enter our statements later. In domestic homicides, the departing statement when included, is often an indication of time of death. The above is not quoted, so we do not know if Celina's mother would include this in her statement. She may have, or she may have had the words given to her by the interviewer, such as "so, at 9 o'clock, you said 'goodnight' to Celina?" This not only puts the words into the mother's mouth, but also robs us of hearing how the mother addresses Celina. Therefore, it is the trained journalist who lets the subject's words speak for herself, and then asks follow up questions to gain information. This is why we strongly urge journalists to study Statement Analysis, particularly, the courses offered by LSI. (see www.lsiscan.com for online courses or seminars)
The same principle applies to "sitting on the couch"; it is not important unless the subject tells us the body posture in the statement.
Celina and her sister, Kayla, shared a bedroom in the basement of the apartment house – a finished room furnished with beds for both girls – not an air mattress on the basement floor, as has been previously reported.
There are a total of three bedrooms on the second floor: Louisa’s, another room in which family friend Kevin Mullaney was staying, and a third room where Louisa’s mother-in-law, Tommie Richards, was staying. Tommie, the Chronicle was told, has health issues and was staying overnight with Wendell and Louisa Noyes.
No one knows if Celina went downstairs to her room after her mother went to sleep. The Chronicle has been told that when Mullaney came home, it was around midnight, and he can remember coming into the living room and sitting on the couch; it was believed that Celina was in her bedroom, in her own bed.
In the morning, Tommie Richards left to go to her home, and by 8:15 a.m., Louisa left the house to go to work in Colebrook. Wendell Noyes went to wake up Celina because she had an appointment at 9 a.m. at a local hairdresser shop. But Noyes did not find her in her bed and, after searching the house to see if she was elsewhere, he called Louisa at work to tell her that Celina wasn’t in the apartment. That was around 9:15 a.m.
It was shortly afterward that a search for Celina began, only to end Aug. 1 when Fish and Game divers found her body near a PSNH dam on the Connecticut River.
The Chronicle also reported that Louisa, Kayla and Kevin have moved into a new apartment out of town. Kayla and Louisa were having a difficult time staying in the apartment, and Louisa felt it was better to find another place to live. Wendell Noyes is not with them because he checked himself into a mental health facility in Concord the day after Celina’s body was found. Four years ago, Noyes was declared a paranoid schizophrenic after some odd behavior.
Last week, when Fish and Game divers began searching the Connecticut River, Wendell Noyes walked to a picnic table in the park in West Stewartstown where photos of Celina were placed during an evening vigil. One by one, he lay them all face down on the table. He then walked back to the apartment and was seen lying on the ground and rolling around in front of the apartment building. A few hours later, the family learned that Celina’s body was found in the river. He was still a patient as of Thursday in an undisclosed facility. At one time, his children and extended family listed him as a friend on Facebook – today his name no longer appears on their pages.
This is critical: his own family has de listed him. Please recall that Wendell Noyes told us that Celina was dead days before she was found when he said "the family is grieving" to reporters. This was a linguistic indicator that he knew or believed that Celina was dead. At that point, police had not told the family that they believed Celina was dead, but were still hopeful that she would be found alive.
His history of violence and his inappropriate Facebook page are alarming, but it is his statement that showed knowledge of Celina's death before her remains were located.
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