When a Killer Calls: A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

by John E. Douglas

most predators displayed three primary traits that fulfilled their emotional aspirations in committing their crimes: manipulation, domination, and control.

The reverend described how one American reporter looked on the devastation and said, “I cannot believe in God after seeing this.” A Welsh farmer searching for his own son said, “Friend, the God I know is here weeping with us. Don’t ever forget one day He lost His child too.”

“You know, the injury heals but the scar doesn’t ever go away.”

Even as he denied abducting, assaulting, and killing them, it was as if he could only refer to them in a way that would make them age-appropriate for a relationship.

This is not to say that MPD doesn’t exist as a known psychiatric condition, it is just that it is virtually always first identified when the subject is a young child, and almost always a result of physical and/or sexual abuse within that child’s home environment.

The gathering gave me a new perspective on how you could do your best to win in the courtroom where the stakes were literally life and death, but then come together as a community on the outside.

In evaluating mental illness and culpability in violent offenders, people often confuse the inability to feel empathy or concern for another human being, or guilt or remorse for anything the offender has done to them, with the inability to control one’s actions.