There are some news stories of crimes that are almost unbelievable. I've always been fascinated by the human psyche and what goes wrong when people snap and commit crimes. My dh and I watch a fair amount of crime shows and when I think I've seen it all, I find there's a new twist in a crime that reaches a higher level of intrigue.
What are you watching in the news now that has captured your interest or in the past what crime developments have you followed in the interest of seeing the criminal captured and justice served? Was there some new technical angle that was extraordinary that allowed the crime to succeed?
The biggest national crime I'm following is the murder in broad daylight of the CEO of United Health Care. The person of interest/suspect has now been captured in Pennsylvania. The background of this man, Luigi Mangione, from Maryland, goes very deep into so many different areas socially, politically and the wealthy family he comes from. What exactly broke him to commit such a heinous crime of killing Brian Thompson of UHC? Is anyone else keeping up with this news?
It does make one wonder what causes a person to commit such heinous crimes. We have a case going on here is UK where a 17 year old stabbed and killed three young girls (ages around 8-10) and injured others. They were attending a Taylor Swift themed dance class and he just started stabbing away. Media photos of suspect seem to only be of him aged about 12 and shown as a choir boy.
https://news.sky.com/story/southport-stabbings-suspect-faces-separate-terror-charge-after-ricin-and-al-qaeda-manual-found-at-home-13243980
Initially any terror connections denied now slowly emerging.
Geffers
That is so tragic that a 17 year old for whatever reason stabbed and killed very innocent young girls. The fact that the killer looked like a regular person is what makes these stories profoundly compelling because this is where "profiling" doesn't work or assuming by the looks of someone that they couldn't possibly commit an evil crime. I've seen so many crime shows where people killed people, yet in their neighborhood the killers where well liked normal looking neighbors.
This week in Madison, Wisconsin, there was a mass shooting at a Christian school. The killer was a 15 year old girl, Natalie Rupnow. She killed two people and injured five more then killed herself. I did some reading on this girl and she was into satanic chat groups as well as websites that show real life killings. I had no idea there were websites that existed like that. Apparently, these satanic websites use the method of "accelerationism" in grooming people by encouraging horrible atrocities on behalf of satan. She was certainly radicalized and an easy target based on her home-life that was also very broken.
The alleged killer of the United Health Care CEO has now been extradited to New York this morning with charges of terrorism, first and second degree murder and a forged weapon. This murder has shown how imbalanced Americans are to be "okay" with that the CEO was killed, with some sending money to his defense and others want him to be set free. OMG, what has this world come too?