With my history (having a father who was a 100% passive and very successful man until his wife, a malignant narcissist, physically attacked him and he responded by beating her to death … later to have a giant brain cyst discovered on his frontal lobes in the areas responsible for impulse control, stimulus-bound aggressive, and decision-making), the minute I hear about perpetrators of violent crimes having had brain traumas, I look there for the reason they did what they did. Fortunately for these offenders, thanks to my father’s dream team of lawyers, people in that situation can now have their brain scans entered into court as evidence in their guilt/innocence phase. I wrote about it in my book Full Frontal Murder Memoir. If you Google “Herbert Weinstein brain” you can see his MRI and PET scan. Seeing these images made me understand how my own father could murder the woman he loved. Sadly, if he has never been physically attacked, he probably never would have murdered and many people’s biggest tragedy would not have occurred. So when you hear “he had head trauma or traumatic brain injury” in the description of a defendant, take a closer look.
It's possible that there's something heritable in serial killers so that's pretty interesting and something I didn't know. I can almost understand the judge feeling sorry for Ted Bundy though, that's almost as anticlimactic end to a career as the death of Shaka Zulu
Just read your post above about Serial Killers and really enjoyed it!
I was pleased to see you had used a passage from one of my comments I’d previously made about Bundy ie him having poor self-esteem and being a covert narcissist.
I’ve since opened a Quora space page entitled ‘Serial Killers and their Psychopathology.’
It has a 2-part post I wrote on Ted Bundy. Part 1 describes a specific murder he committed ie the murder of Laura Aime and Part 2 is an assessment of his psychopathology, during the time period this murder took place. This was triggered by his covert narcissism, and caused his compartmentalised malignant rage to manifest towards this specific female.
I’ll include links to part 1 and part 2 in the comments above - as you may well find these to be of interest!
I agree that your 1st 2 examples would not be psycopaths based on the information presented.
I'm not sure about the 2nd 2 however. I'm not sure that having head trauma would rule psycopathy out. Or child abuse, as I'm sure that a psychopath could be abused.
Also psycopathy could be genetic, so maybe and maybe not.
As far as defecating goes, yes it's likely someone could do that for the reason you started, it's also possible that it was done to mark territory, like many animals do.
So without knowing much about either serial killer, I'm not sure they can be ruled out based on the information presented. Is there more about their psychological profiles somewhere?
With my history (having a father who was a 100% passive and very successful man until his wife, a malignant narcissist, physically attacked him and he responded by beating her to death … later to have a giant brain cyst discovered on his frontal lobes in the areas responsible for impulse control, stimulus-bound aggressive, and decision-making), the minute I hear about perpetrators of violent crimes having had brain traumas, I look there for the reason they did what they did. Fortunately for these offenders, thanks to my father’s dream team of lawyers, people in that situation can now have their brain scans entered into court as evidence in their guilt/innocence phase. I wrote about it in my book Full Frontal Murder Memoir. If you Google “Herbert Weinstein brain” you can see his MRI and PET scan. Seeing these images made me understand how my own father could murder the woman he loved. Sadly, if he has never been physically attacked, he probably never would have murdered and many people’s biggest tragedy would not have occurred. So when you hear “he had head trauma or traumatic brain injury” in the description of a defendant, take a closer look.
It's possible that there's something heritable in serial killers so that's pretty interesting and something I didn't know. I can almost understand the judge feeling sorry for Ted Bundy though, that's almost as anticlimactic end to a career as the death of Shaka Zulu
Hi Athena, please check comments at the end of the thread for both my explanation for the link and Part 1 of my Ted Bundy post. Thanks!
Part 2 - Ted Bundy- The Laura Aime Murder
https://serialkillersandtheirpsychopathology.quora.com/Ted-Bundy-The-Laura-Aime-Murder-Lehi-Utah-October-31st-1974-Part-2-The-psychopathology-of-Ted-Bundy-in-Septembe?ch=17&oid=61862918&share=bb7fd12f&srid=uRgvo6&target_type=post
Part 1 - ‘Ted Bundy - The Laura Aime Murder.’
https://serialkillersandtheirpsychopathology.quora.com/Ted-Bundy-The-Laura-Aime-Murder-Lehi-Utah-October-31st-1974-Part-1-Background-Murder-Updated-02-02-22-New-p?ch=17&oid=60193569&share=1d5fecfa&srid=uRgvo6&target_type=post
Hey Athena,
Just read your post above about Serial Killers and really enjoyed it!
I was pleased to see you had used a passage from one of my comments I’d previously made about Bundy ie him having poor self-esteem and being a covert narcissist.
I’ve since opened a Quora space page entitled ‘Serial Killers and their Psychopathology.’
It has a 2-part post I wrote on Ted Bundy. Part 1 describes a specific murder he committed ie the murder of Laura Aime and Part 2 is an assessment of his psychopathology, during the time period this murder took place. This was triggered by his covert narcissism, and caused his compartmentalised malignant rage to manifest towards this specific female.
I’ll include links to part 1 and part 2 in the comments above - as you may well find these to be of interest!
I wonder why Ted Bundy's longtime girlfriend (and her daughter) were never his targets, even when his girlfriend broke up with him.
He murdered women both when he was in a relationship with her, and when he wasn't.
All important information, thank you for putting it out there, as always, it matters. But not really my thing.
I agree that your 1st 2 examples would not be psycopaths based on the information presented.
I'm not sure about the 2nd 2 however. I'm not sure that having head trauma would rule psycopathy out. Or child abuse, as I'm sure that a psychopath could be abused.
Also psycopathy could be genetic, so maybe and maybe not.
As far as defecating goes, yes it's likely someone could do that for the reason you started, it's also possible that it was done to mark territory, like many animals do.
So without knowing much about either serial killer, I'm not sure they can be ruled out based on the information presented. Is there more about their psychological profiles somewhere?