The Killer Across the Table

by John E. Douglas

anyone who has “experienced” a murder knows there is no such thing as closure, nor in fact should there be.

Exactly. Love this.

Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.

One of the hallmarks of narcissistic, borderline, and sociopathic personalities is the unwillingness to assume personal responsibility for anything. It is always someone else’s fault.

I’ve known of few of those...

“Behavior reflects personality.”

by the time some individual acts on his predatory urges, it is usually so completely assimilated into his entire personality that you can’t simply take it out and replace it as you can a defective mechanical part. That is why the concept of rehabilitation is so problematic for violent offenders. Once the damage is done, it is often all but impossible to repair it.