The first strange thing about the interview is that the father has a suspicious pause when spelling his name. It is as though he must think about how to spell his own name.

At the time of the interview, the parents do not know that their child has been killed. They only know she is missing. The second strange thing is that the father states that he found out that his daughter was missing through his daughter's mother. This is where it gets weird. He states that the mother learned his daughter was missing by calling her daughter. According to what the father is alleging, the daughter told her mother over the telephone that she is missing. As unreal as that is, it is even more illogical. The daughter was not missing, she had been killed. How could a dead daughter tell her mother she is missing?

The next strange thing is that the mother refers to her daughter as "the daughter."

Stranger still is that the reporter asks the mother: "Do you know what grade she's in?" That is not a question you ask a mother of a child. You would ask a mother "in what grade is your child?" You would not ask a mother if she knows what grade her child is in.  An ordinary reporter would assume that the mother knows the grade her child is in.