Do you follow murder cases?

I love nothing better than to read a murder mystery.  Agatha Christie is one of my favorites.  Real murder cases, well, not so much.  I am like you and just "DON'T Get" why you would hurt and want to kill people you love or don't even know.  Even if you are mad at someone, this too, will pass.  I don't get it either so I only follow what the immediate news says.
I didn't hear about the guy in Colorado.  Sick and Sad.  Now I have to ask.  Did he take his own life, too? This post was edited by Merlin at November 24, 2018 6:05 PM MST

Yes, I have read a lot of true crime events, including murder.

For some reason, I'm drawn to reading about disasters and murders. A morbid streak, I admit.

Psychologists who specialise in understanding criminal behaviour have interviewed tens of thousands of convicted domestic murderers. The motivations are all extremely similar. There is a certain range of types of men (and in rare cases women) who are prone to this type of behaviour.
Easy to access their studies online. Here's one example of the results of recent studies:

"- The man perceives the woman to be his whole world so that he feels that any separation from her entails a loss of his own identity ;

- The man's life lacks other sources of meaning and reasons for living;

- The man's traditional perception of masculinity, which dictates that the male has full power, honor, and control, runs counter to his dependency upon his wife, making that reliance appear evidence of his weakness and humiliation, and an affront to masculine honor.

- The man's personal behavior is rigid and uncompromising

- The man's prevailing beliefs about love appear to justify the sacrifice of his wife on the one hand and of persistence on the other. In this case, the ideology behind love provides the "legitimacy" for terrible crimes [in his mind].

When all the above conditions pertain, the risk of wife murder significantly increases. The specific event that ignites the explosive barrel often revolves around the woman threatening to or actually separating from her partner."

"In 2007 in the US, the rate of male partner violence toward their intimate female partners (age 18 or older) was 4.5 per 1,000; the rate of intimate partner homicide for females at that year was 1.07 per 100,000 female residents—that is, 420 times smaller". 

from https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/in-the-name-love/201409/why-do-some-men-murder-the-wives-they-love

 
I don't think pop crime fiction and film do a good enough job of going thoroughly and honestly into the psyche of the murderer.




This post was edited by inky at November 27, 2018 8:39 AM MST

No I don't... where in Colorado? I might need to move. 

no cause its depressing

I followed the Willie Pickton case and the interviews he did well in prison. He killed 49 woman and his only regret was after he killed his 49th victim he went on vacation then got caught his regret was that  he got caught and wasn't able to make it an even 50 victims - hard to understand how people can think like that. Cheers and happy weekend!

Back to the local news NOT FOX but all the news broadcasts carried it... I did follow the O.J. Simpson trial.  I couldn't help it.  Since it is right in my neighborhood and everyone in commercial -land had no other option.  I did follow that murder.

If I were on the jury, did he do it?

Perhaps,  I beat you to your thought...  Guilty or not Guilty?
That is for you to decide..

Big winks and smiles!

This post was edited by Merlin at November 27, 2018 8:40 AM MST

The O.J Simpson murder trial. I haven't followed another since.

  I listen to a weekly podcast, "Unsolved Murders" is what it's called. They present a new case every two episodes, so one episode is Part 1, the other Part 2. Every now and then they have cases that go beyond two episodes. Their material spans the globe and the centuries, cases from a few years ago to hundreds of years ago, some with national fame for where they took place, some with worldwide fame, some very little known at all beyond their localities. 
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