tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316617410436977874.post5500683516322516835..comments2024-03-25T02:53:26.373-04:00Comments on Women in Crime Ink: To Believe or Not to BelieveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316617410436977874.post-61580234044677086932009-01-28T15:00:00.000-05:002009-01-28T15:00:00.000-05:00What a great last line, 4thekids!"It is too bad th...What a great last line, 4thekids!<BR/><BR/>"It is too bad that the way this was projected may make other perceive that this might be anything other than a psychopathic maniac killing his poor innocent children."<BR/><BR/>As a society we should be willing to call a psychopathic maniac what he is rather than sugarcoat and justify his horrific evilness. If some piece of crap enters my home one day like evil Santa Bruce Pardo, I will be pretty darned angry if the killer gets a nice memorial service, flowers, and dozens of people feeling sorry for his "emotional distress" while my dead children have had their lives ripped from them by the b@$#%$#.<BR/><BR/>Well stated, 4thekids!Pat Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15667909509324138003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316617410436977874.post-48056145591942612522009-01-28T14:20:00.000-05:002009-01-28T14:20:00.000-05:00Pat, I first saw this when I got home from work la...Pat, <BR/>I first saw this when I got home from work last night. The first article I read had huge headlines about how the poor economy was to blame. When I read further and discovered their firing was because of their own fraudulent practices at work I was livid. What kind of people, person thinks like this? Your explanation has helped me to understand better what really was at play here. I just wanted to thank you for writing about this so I can attempt to get my mind around the craziness. It is too bad that the way this was projected may make other perceive that this might be anything other than a psychopathic maniac killing his poor innocent children.4thekids Missing Kid Serviceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07076004250386605076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316617410436977874.post-7342657501350503512009-01-28T12:41:00.000-05:002009-01-28T12:41:00.000-05:00I have a real problem with the sympathy ploy used ...I have a real problem with the sympathy ploy used by criminals. Not that they use it, but that people believe it. Psychopaths will do evil stuff becauese they are damaged human beings. We can't do anything about that but we CAN do something about falling for their bunk and pushing it as any kind of truth. So many serial killer studies are full of hogwash because they are self-reports. The criminal may lie about many aspects of his crime - his MO, his motive, his choice of victim, his emotions - and being a pathalogical liar rather makes it difficult to determine what is true and what isn't (without other evidence to support what he says). Think how many serial killers claim to have killed people that they didn't (to increase their numbers or get deals from the system) and this then confuses studies when ten women the guy didn't kill are group in with the ten he did! Now, your whole analyze us scientifically unsound. Future police investigations receive faulty concepts and information based on lies.<BR/><BR/>The problem of accepting that a family mass murderer is a psychopath lies, I believe, in those family photos like the one of the Lupoe family. Don't they look happy? Doesn't he look like a nice man? He COULDN'T be a psychopath. He must have gone over the edge. People have difficulty realizing that a moment in time (a wedding, a family photo session) does not show a person's personality. It is a staged event. Personality shows up the during all the other regular moments of the year and I guarantee Lupoe has a history of concerning behavior before and after that family photo was taken.Pat Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15667909509324138003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316617410436977874.post-58781099388399262022009-01-28T08:59:00.000-05:002009-01-28T08:59:00.000-05:00Pat, I remember reviewing the FBI studies on seria...Pat, I remember reviewing the FBI studies on serial rapists done in the 1970s, when I wrote EVIL BESIDE HER. Unreliability of the answers to the survey questions was the biggest problem. Something like 70 percent of the sexual predators claimed to have been sexually abused as children. Is it possible? Sure. But perhaps they answered that way just to stir up sympathy. <BR/><BR/>The last couple of days the Baby Grace trial has been going on in Houston, a two-year-old killed by her mother and stepfather during a "discipline" binge and thrown in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Galveston, in a plastic tub.<BR/><BR/>As much time as I spend investigating horrible cases, I had to turn the news off last night. When they described the day-long beating that little girl had, and how in the midst of it she told her mother, "I love you," I felt physically ill. <BR/><BR/>I wonder sometimes if there is any explanation for these horrible crimes other than that some people are just truly evil.Kathryn Caseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04469242532804571817noreply@blogger.com