US Marine veteran arrested in Venezuela on terrorism charges has attempted suicide in custody
A US Marine veteran, Matthew Heath, 40 (above), detained in Venezuela on terrorism charges since 2020 has attempted suicide, according to his family.
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A US Marine veteran, Matthew Heath, 40 (above), detained in Venezuela on terrorism charges since 2020 has attempted suicide, according to his family.
Lies, telling him things like the doctors are pushing him for information. basically saying anything he would say could help save the baby's life. >> you have the ability to keep your son alive. do you want your son alive? >> yeah. >> i knew this was no chance at saving matthew's life, but i didn't feel bad about telling adrian that. ultimately it was my goal to get the truth out of him. >> did you shake anymore >> no. >> just planting these seeds hoping something will catch with adrian and he'll bite on something. >> it's important for your son's life. >> we don't care about finding out the t...
He would pick up only matthew. all the kids are home, nobody sees anything. it's a very small apartment, 600 square feet. nobody hears anything. his wife never testified she seen him be rough with matthew or malachi. i believe she was still attempting to have returned to her custody of her children who had been removed from the home at the time of the trial. if she assisted him in the defense, that could impact her ability to have her children returned. >> there was a long period of time that she was just getting visitation with her children. at that point in time, it was important that justic...
All right? and let that aggression build up and show me how you threw matthew on the bed. don't try to sugarcoat it. show me how hard you threw him on that bed. that's how you did it? >> it was not intentional. >> once you find the buttons that you need to push, i'm going to arrest your wife, i'm going to separate your children there them, i'm going to take care of you if you tell a story that satisfies me, now you've broken them. so you tell them i want you to stand up and re-enact this, they'll stand up and re-enact it. why? because you now control them. false confessions are probably the se...
I would know if i dropped the baby. >> what about walking around with the baby in your arms like this? >> who walks with a baby like that? >> who could have done it, you tell me? >> we need to figure out how this could have happened in your care. as far as your other son hitting matthew -- >> i'm not -- i could have bumped him going into the crib, but never out of anger. >> i wasn't sure what he told me caused the injury and i wasn't sure i was going to get that information at that point. >> normally when we take a statement, we'll write the statement and have them read it over and sign it. wh...