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I'm so sad for her family. I can't ever imagine having to deal with the death of your child especially the brutual way she was killed.
This boy will get some lawyer that claims he was under distress and pressured into confessing. It happens all the time. The lawyer will also claim mental illness just like the Aurora shooter. I'm tried of calculated killers getting away with these violent crimes by pleading insanity. They are insane for thinking they won't get caught.
I guarantee you there were warning signs. He probably started a few fires as a kid and was probably occasionally cruel to animals. There were several girls in a CNN article earlier who stated that they were afraid of him long before this happened.
One of the girl's mother said:
"She was freaked out by a teenager staring at her at the park," Alexander said. "After Jessica was kidnapped, she told me she knew who it was.
"She was sure she knew who it was, and it was this teenager. Because he was 17. I didn't believe her."
The FBI profiled the killer when that poor kid's body turned up. Did anyone see the profile? Any correlation with the teenager?
I couldn't find it, but I saw this in the Boulder Weekly:
"He was, likely, an isolated child with few friends and, possibly, a history of bed-wetting, raised by both biological parents in a home environment he would describe as stable. A lonely child has probably grown to a lonely adult who lives on the margins of society.
There’s a 49 percent chance he had selected that tree by the side of the highway as where he would leave her body before he’d kidnapped her, and a 22 percent chance he has returned, or will, to the site where he disposed of her remains. There’s also a 21 percent chance he’s already left town.
If he’s like the majority of the offenders in the study, he would still score below the threshold for classification as a psychopathon the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, which is used by researchers and clinicians to diagnose risk for violence. Perhaps not because he’s not psychopathic, but because he’s learned to mask those traits, able to hide even in the full sunlight of a Friday morning." Jessica Ridgeway: Sketches of a killer
He sounds similar to Eric Harris, one of the Columbine killers.
Interesting..his Mom called the police. Talk about creepy eyes! His picture gave me chills.
Poor Jessica and her family. Kudos to this crime being solved...probably saved the lives of other little girls.
Can you imagine how his mother must feel right now? I'm just glad he confessed before he hurt anybody else. If they don't keep him under lock and key for the rest of his life, I think there could be more to come.
I don't care if they put him in prison or a padded cell in the nuthouse as long as they keep him off the streets. My heart goes out to Jessica's family.
I walked a 1/2 mile to and from school as an elementary school kid. I also took public transportation from the suburbs to downtown for volunteer work as a high school student.
We walked well over a mile to elementary school in the fifties (no, it wasn't through deep snow, wild Indians or saber-tooths) and no one worried about kidnappings. It was a different time and a different America. It breaks my heart that so many godless monsters live in our society today.
Plenty of kids walk to school and back safely in the US. There have always been a certain number of child murderers out there. Some of the biggest "tabloid sensations" of the American past were gruesome child murder cases like the Albert Fish scandal.
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