Awakening
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This is just my opinion only, but if you assume that a perpetrator of a crime is 'normal', then you have a hard time understanding it. But if you shift your perspective to think about somebody who is anomalous, such as, hypothetically, a psychopath, it's not so hard to fit it together.
Many people who commit crimes are certainly not 'normal'. Psychopaths are twenty to twenty-five times more likely than non-psychopaths to be in prison.
In the case of crimes involved with someone with psychopathy, there is blunted affect. These people do not react emotionally or in panic like 'normal people'. They are calm, strategic, quick thinking.
Hiding a small body within an hour and a half is certainly very possible for a 'normal' person.
This is a general commentary on criminals, not a commentary on FPs per se.
Years ago I watched a documentary (can't remember the name) and a criminologist said 2 things that surprised me at the time.
1. Psychopathy is more common than we'd like to think
2. All serial killers are psychopaths but not all psychopaths are killers
Before this I thought all psychopaths were murderers. And I didn't realise that psychopaths could mostly be normal people most of the time. I thought they might pretend to be normal for a short time but that very quickly their psychopathy would be obvious to all. Not true apparently?