There was never any question in my mind that Larry Gene Bell had a mental illness, as I would say just about every violent predator does. But in all of my years of behavioral analysis and criminal investigation, I have almost never seen someone whose urges to harm others were actually uncontrollable. A rare exception and example of someone who really was compelled would be Richard Trenton Chase, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic with severe hypochondria, who murdered six victims in the space of a month in the Sacramento, California, area in 1977. In addition to having sex with some of the
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