This is a reminder that evil does exist, and it is not defined by race, gender or age. Well written.
Are there evil people living among us here in Boston? I learned much about the criminal personality while attending graduate school. I was fascinated when reading about psychopathy and its prototypic charm, lack of remorse, and proclivities toward violence. I read Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, first published in 1979 about serial killer Gary Gilmore. Gilmore was the last death row inmate to die by means of the firing squad here in the United States. It was his request to be put to death in this manner. The book was an encyclopedia of the underpinnings of psychopathy or sociopathy, used here interchangeably. I also studied David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam killer in New York City. Berkowitz used a Charter Arms Bulldog, a .44 caliber pistol, to kill 6 and wound 7 in 8 separate shootings in 1976. At his trial, he claimed that a…
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