I think the media really needs to lay off his family, too. Who on the heck cares how many cats they had? How's THAT relevant, report-worthy news? FFS. The state of msm has been in a rapid decline3 for some years now... but this past couple of years, they've sunk to whole new levels.
And hey - didn't I say back in thread 1 somewhere, there'd be an autism diagnosis?
Now, I am not disparaging anyone who genuinely has autism here, please don't anyone think so.
But how many Asbergers/autistic (or claims to be autistic...) killer cases have we had here, recently? Remember when they all were bipolar, then all had the "warrior gene" and/or ADHD.... And let's not forget Gable Tostee (aka Eric Thomas)'s completely false "diagnosis" of autism (there's still people thinking he has it, when the court reported he did not. One up for publicity mongering, I suppose..). Yet another 'popular' catch-all diagnosis that is made too often in a hurry, and in response to a range of behaviours that could have a jillion other causes. Sorry for the rant, but how many cases like this are we are going to see, before they discover the next condition that gets trotted out in defense of every second young, male murderer.
And to be fair, the parents may genuinely think these young men are autistic (thanks to kneejerk diagnosis), but they're NOT. So whatever they actually have goes untreated... so no surprise that things go pear shaped when they grow up.