Could this happen again?” She paused to make eye contact with several people in the crowd. “The answer is yes. The men who committed these terrible crimes, many of whom still walk among civilized society today, weren’t anything special. They weren’t picked from prisons or plucked from padded rooms. They weren’t hardened criminals or diagnosed psychopaths, just ordinary people. They came from all walks of life. Many of them were educated and intelligent. Many were not. Who knows how many among you sitting here tonight might have done the same thing in their places?”
