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A google search led me to this website:
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/...
It lists two serial killers, Andrew Kehoe and John George Haigh, but doesn't give any details. I will continue my search.
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The only thing I found about this Kehoe guy was that he was obsessively neat. He would change his shirt in the middle of the day if he got a spot on it. He was born in 1872, so in the day before the automatic washing machine that was pretty unheard of. People wore their clothes until they were visibly dirty. His story is interesting because we find that school killings are not necessarily a new thing. In 1927 this guy killed 45 people and injured 58, most of them school children by bombing the school because he was pissed off he didn't get elected to the school board. Does anyone know if there is a book about this?
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Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing by Andrew Bernstein is one. I think there are others as well
Let me assist those pondering this question. OCD or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by either obsessions (intrusive, distressing, out-of-character thoughts) or compulsions (meaningless rituals that the sufferer believes needs to be done to relieve anxiety, like checking over and over to make sure the stove is turned off, retracing one's route on the freeway to make sure they didn't run anyone over in the car, or switching the lights on and off again and again, that sort of thing. A person with OCD can have both obsessions and compulsions. You do not qualify for the disorder if the symptoms do not interfere with your functioning. A person does not have OCD if she keeps checking to make sure she has her keys but still makes it to work on time; a person who cannot get to work because she has to keep checking qualifies for the diagnosis.
Apparently Dr. Jose Arturo Silva testified that Carl Stayner (Yosemite Park) had mild autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and paraphilia.Serial killer Joanna Dennehy spent five days on a psychiatric ward a year before she murdered three men and stabbed two others. She was diagnosed as having obsessive compulsive disorder.
It goes without saying serial killers have a lot more going on than OCD but many speak about the compulsion to kill and the rituals they carry out each time.
Nitpick: it's Cary Stayner, rather than Carl.
Let me also point out that if he really has autism, what looks like OCD might be just the autism. It all depends on whether he finds the intrusive thoughts and rituals distressing or not.
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Q:I was watching a crime show (criminal minds) about an obsessive compulsive serial killer. I was trying to think of a real life OCD serial killer. Can you?
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