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Isn't that the 60 million dollar question and to my knowledge no one can provide the answer. For the most part we can only talk about some of the indicators some of us have mentioned (infantile, undeveloped psyches) and those only apply to certain populations of offenders. Like with some...

Great post! Personally, I need to see more of this woman before I think about motives for the murder. Up to now I've been discussing general profiles for female sex offenders - which lots of folk have enough of a hard time envisioning. I do think it's likely that Melissa shares much in...

Thank you for this post, I've been looking for someone to make this point so that I could add some clarification about sexual abuse and adult criminal activity. Both of the following statements are true: 1. The vast majority of people who were sexually abused as children do NOT go on to...

Hey, Isabella, it's me again, asking newbie questions in the furtherance of my research on this case. I watched the trailer this morning several times, but wasn't able to locate an English language version of the film. Is it on available on the internet? Also, didn't I read on the net this...

Thanks for taking the time to respond so thoroughly to a newbie. Two factors raised my antennae with respect to RM: 1. He inserted himself into the investigation - always suspicious, and 2. I watched a taped interview with him and afterwards you'll note I specifically said, "he's guilty...

Hi, I'm new to this thread, but I just spent the morning doing a bit of reading and watching videos on this case and it's clear to me that Robert Murat is guilty as hell of something and probably sociopathic, so I'm wondering why there isn't an ongoing thread about his possible involvement. Did...

Absolutely the same thing. One of the reasons female sexual predators so often skim below the radar is that our culture for generations revered the child-like woman, one described to perfection by Melissa's family and friends (amazing with children, wonderful parent, mother hen at family...

I agree... my life has not been that out of the ordinary (well, yes, it has, but that's another story...lol), and I've met more than a few female offenders ... none of them, to my knowledge, have murdered any of their young victims, but through their molestation of young children they've...

Thank you and you could be right - I just haven't seen any evidence of those factors yet. For the moment I'm leaning towards a long standing obsession with Sandra, infantile personality (owing to her own probable sexual abuse as a child), and female sex offender with probable previous acting out...

Yup, as I kept asking at the online press conference: Is there any evidence that Melissa was obsessed with Sandra? Unfortunately the reporter never asked that question. On the other hand, he wouldn't have answered anyway...

Great question! The answer is that when a woman has done the hard work of becoming an authentic adult (has learned to say no to people, can make her own choices and bare the consequences, can set boundaries with other people so that she doesn't NEED them to survive, all those good psych...

LOL! My brains were in the very process of knotting... thank God you set them free!

This sort of behavior is no doubt a result of the complex interplay of nature and nurture, and as I said I've seen female sex addicts who offend against both young girls and boys, with a significant part of the attraction being that the child is vulnerable and weaker than they themselves...

As I wrote on another thread right before this news broke, in my practice of ministry and counseling I've run across more than a few female sex offenders and I suspect they are much more prevalent than we suspect precisely because they usually offend against young, vulnerable family members or...

Hi, Nurse, thank you for the warm welcome and, yes, I wonder if the current stressers didn't set off a full-blown attempt to "own" Sandra on a last hurah junket of sorts, throwing caution to the wind. Of course I'm also interested to see if these reports of Melissa having been involved in...

Hi, everyone, I've been reading here for a few days, but had some problems becoming registered because of my AOL email address, about which I want to say a huge, "Thank you!" to those who run this board and worked with me to get me on. You all are very much a class act. In the meantime, I've...