The Killer Across the Table

by John E. Douglas

The fascination with “true crime” is actually fascination with what writers and philosophers call the human condition.

We all want to know and understand the basis of human behavior and motivation, why we do the things we do.

Predators may look

and sound and often act like we do, but they don’t think like we do. Their logical process is completely different.

Third, Kondro reaffirms for us that a casually violent personality—one capable of ripping a phone out of the wall, breaking household objects in a fit of rage, or leading a domestic partner to seek a restraining order—is by definition capable of a heightened or intensified level of violence. Because as we say, “Behavior reflects personality.”

“Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives into conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining.”