Unmasking the Mask: 69 Shocking Signs Psychopaths Use to Hide in Plain Sight
And then many more as I worked in forensic psychiatry for 6 years.
Training psych student here, so I don’t have any specific real life people, but I do have a case we looked at for research purposes that was pretty grueling.
A seventeen year old boy was convicted of arson and double homicide from setting a house on fire. The victims inside were his parents, who were on the second floor. He had started the fire downstairs in their living room, and had made sure to gas the front and back doors before exiting through a window.
When he was taken into custody, he showed absolutely no emotions, other than a disdain for the sound of the radio in the police car. Other than that, he held normal conversation about girls and video games, as if he hadn’t just burned his parents alive.
When he was questioned, he, in detail, explained that he had slowly syphoned gasoline from both parents cars over the course of a few months. He didn’t have a job or his own car, so he had no other method to acquire it without seeming suspicious. His parents didn’t notice the subtle losses in gas in their cars, and went about life normally.
He stated that he went about committing the arson as if he were making breakfast. The casual demeanour of his words was described as “unnerving and unsettling”. At the end of questioning, he asked if their bodies had been recovered, and asked if he could see them, because he “wanted to know what they looked like after burning”.
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