Pretty sure he was aware he lacked a conscience. He was asking him to explain his mental disorders.

"I appreciate you taking the time to explain this to me. Im pretty much the loneliest guy in the world".

I was surprised to hear him say something like that.

Extraordinary. Someone who ended 70 people in horrific brutal fashion sounding polite and charming.

The human race.

In human history?

That leaves out a lot of cool alien serial killers!

Haha thats good

Do you still get to be called a serial killer if you admit to serial killing and you are convicted of the murders in a court of law?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sture_Bergwall
Sture Ragnar Bergwall (born 26 April 1950), also known as Thomas Quick in 1993–2002, is a Swedish man previously believed to have been a serial killer, having confessed to more than 30 murders while incarcerated in a mental institution for personality disorders. Between 1994 and 2001, Quick was convicted of eight of these murders.

Huh

Yes, why wouldnt you be

In the same vein, Henry Lee Lucas.

***However, he withdrew all of his confessions in 2008, as a result of which his murder convictions were quashed, the final one in July 2013, and he was released from hospital. The episode raised issues about how murder convictions could have been obtained on such weak evidence, and has been called the largest miscarriage of justice in Swedish history.***

3,000 murders? Incredible.

Poor law enforcement. You have a dead body. You have a person who says they killed them. How much more additional information do you need to provide a jury when you have the person confessing?!

False confessions are a real problem in major cases. That's why making sure at least some key evidence in the case isn't reported is critical, to help weed out false confessions. Oh, so you're telling me you stabbed the victim six times? Yeah, no, please make sure to take your meds now.

We don't want some raving maniac on the loose, but if a confession provides closure to a family member, perhaps it is worth it. The police/departments also have incredible political pressures to clear cases, so it isn't a surprise that they will accept guilty pleas. What person or entity wouldn't?! We try so hard to convict people and we are used to criminals not taking the stand or pleading the 5th.

Here you have killers readily admitting they did other killings. How much work will anyone really do to disprove a person who wants to take credit? We view the confession as a gold standard. It allows a juror to sleep very easy at night knowing the person they sent to prison admits to doing it! What else do you really need? The people that do some murders but falsely admit to numerous others might be the ultimate psychopaths. Because they cause a little bit of a doubt on every one of their cases.

If someone is dumb enough to confess falsely just end em anyway. Send em straight to hell where they belong for trying to **** up the investigation.

I mean, it probably provides little closure for the family if it's not the right person, assuming that is ever discovered. But this is far more a problem with your grandiose killers who confess to a bunch of other murders once they are caught, as opposed to your serial confessors or other types who confess but don't know key things about the case and can be ruled out fairly easily. I can understand the reasoning - if Henley killed three we know of and wants to claim 40 more, why not let him? That isn't really justice for the victim, though, assuming there's a real killer out there. Very tempting on old/cold cases, though.

A lot of false confessors are seriously mentally ill. They aren't deliberately trying to mess with the cops. They are frequent flyers for both LE and local psychiatric hospitals. Not everyone is just being a dick.

They usually use vehicles when they don't have access to guns

Terrorists usually are immigrants and stand out more. Serial killers blend into society which causes the real fear because it could be anyone. Serial killers are also loners where terrorists tend to work in concert with others. Serial killers try to get away with the crimes while terrorists want immediate credit for every crime.

Terrorists seem very successful causing terror and don't need to add serial killing to the arsenal.

Yea for sure. Some probably actually think they committed the crimes. False memories are a hell of a thing to overcome even by sane people.

Most serial killers are in death row and live in their cells 23 hours a day. When you start confessing and helping the police clear murders, they obviously treat you very nice.

***Eventually, because of Lucas's confessions, the task force officially "cleared" 213 previously unsolved murders. Lucas reportedly received preferential treatment rarely offered to convicts, being frequently taken to restaurants and cafés. Some of his alleged treatment was odd for someone whom the police believed to be a cunning mass murderer: he was rarely handcuffed, often allowed to wander police stations and jails at will, and even knew codes for security doors.***

If you're interested in this stuff then give this a read. David Ray Parker would abduct and drug women and then play them this tape to prepare them for what they were in store and what the rules were.

http://thinkingaboutphilosophy.blogs...ranscript.html

lol wat

op,

For someone who is fascinated by serial killers, your complete lack of any basic understanding of mental illness is really amazing.

???

You've never heard of a false memory? Why do you think after major historical events psychologists ask people to write down what they were doing that day? 5-10 years later, they will ask that person to recall what occurred and the story will often be completely different than what was written down. It's because the person has created a false memory.

Altered would probably be a better word to use than false.

This is not entirely true, but I can only speak on personal experience. I am friends with the Chief of Police of my small suburban community. He loves to talk about his job, especially after a few cocktails. His department has interaction with many different federal, state and local agencies. It's the times we live in has changed the way policing is performed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Nilsen

Be careful of that falling masonry, it might kill somebody.