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Matt Murphy
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April 2024
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The Book of Murder: A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death
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“There is a comedian I follow on Instagram named Rodney Norman. He once posted his perspective on enduring hardship, saying: “You’re either a child of God or a cosmic miracle, either way you’re pretty friggin’ awesome.”
― The Book of Murder: A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death
― The Book of Murder: A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death
“But I will go a step further. Not only are many true serial killers perfectly capable of functioning in society, and not only are their actions usually not the product of childhood abuse, in my experience many of them grew up in circumstances that were the exact opposite. Many of them, to put it lightly, were spoiled rotten as kids. They had every advantage and opportunity in life and came from a psychological position far closer to extreme entitlement than victimhood. They kill because they want to. They kill because they sexually get off on it. They kill because, to them, killing is fun.”
― The Book of Murder: A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death
― The Book of Murder: A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death
“In the end, the final judgment read as follows: “‘His crimes are those of an antisocial, sadistic, bloodthirsty being, who considers himself privileged to commit these atrocities because he was once upon a time treated in an asylum for insanity, and thereby escaped well merited punishment. He is a common criminal and there are no ameliorating circumstances to be found in his favour’—V. was sentenced to death.”
― The Book of Murder: A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death
― The Book of Murder: A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death
