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you dealt with that night at the two accidents... that struck you as having any. . .you know.. .problems
.you know.. .1 mean you said that it’s frequent for people to be involved in accidents to be emotionally distraught. Were there any other people that presented this to you or was Lisa a special specific type of case?
Portolano:
Lisa was special. I mean. • .now granted the. . .the
gentleman that she struck. . .you know.. .he had his emotions on a. .on a totally different level. His was anger.. .you know. But that’s totally acceptable. But her. . .her emotions were totally out of line... umm. . . of the norm. And uh. . .1 had never run into someone like that. . .you know.. .with. . .with those mannerisms. . .with that tone of voice. . .umm.. .and the
.the eye contact.
Det. Sudler:
With regard to her tone of voice and her.. .her eye
contact. . .umm. . .you mentioned that it was programmed. How. . . how so? Can you describe it?
Portolano:
Oh. . . like I would say “Lisa, can you move your. . .your
car?” She would look right at me and go “Yes, I can do that”. And she.. .and she would just like... everything was so uh. . . formal and. .umm. . . just “Lisa, did you have your seatbelt on?”....”Yes, I’did” or “Lisa, did you hit your head?”.. .“No, I did not”. You know.. .it was. .those.. .just duh duh duh is how she was. And it.. .and it was just kinda odd.
Det. Sudler: , It wasn’t’f lowing conversation?
Portolano:
No, she would give you an answer. It was just ,a
one sentence answer to what you asked. And when you asked the,,question, that’s all you got...was like one sentence until, we got her in the back... you know. . . and I had a chance to just really let

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