You forgot to quote the part describing what type of upbringing, which puts it in proper context.
what trauma? there is no evidence, no narrative of trauma suffered by either Bryer or Kam. What beating? no one says Bryer was beaten. No one claims Kam was beaten, not even once, much less twice or three times. Even AS, who's animosity against Bryers mother knows no boundaries has never said she beat Bryer.
No one really knows what upbringing either of them had. No one knows at all what upbringing Kam McLeod had. Not a skerrick of a hint of his upbringing is available, and the only source of comment of Bryer's upbringing is his non custodial father, who has an axe to grind with every known authority organization in Canada. A neighbor of Bryers said his life was a awful but does that mean he was separated from his father, and his mother, ( even though that may have been his choice, to live with Gran ) .. ? no one knows.
Who said they were beaten? That's that weird habit of arguing against your own arguments showing itself again.
Perhaps if you watched some of the interviews where AS describes special needs, developmental issues, bullying etc. it could offer some insight. Perhaps reading some of the legal history and the allegations on both sides could offer some insight. Perhaps researching hereditary mental illnesses would offer some insight.
Well, at the risk of making an understatement, they did go on a killing spree together and ended their own lives together, so there is some sort of intense bond that formed. Perhaps not a relationship based on dependency, but empowerment.
they certainly recognized each other for what they were. They didn't appear to surprise each other, either, as , after murdering Miss Deese and Mr Fowler, were they put off by each other ? Not a bit of it. Onwards to the next random victim, only this time, they spent a bit more time at it, having perhaps talked about it over the 4 days and 500 klms between killings. What they wished they had done, what they intended to do to the next one, and so on. What psychopaths talk about to each other.
That doesn't matter. They still killed 3 people in about 4 days--that's about as textbook as a murder spree gets. They're one over the minimum and they didn't seem to have a cooling off period. That's also not counting the person in the middle who got away. So 3 attempts on 4 potential victims in 4 days and 3 actual victims.
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AS is almost a professional victim himself. Him describing Bryer's developmental issues and the bullying is really exposing how clever Bryer was in getting Dad on side. What better way to garner sympathy from AS than to claim to be bullied!.. it must have been like honey to AS's ears.
I wouldn't describe it as an average breakup. The legal record itself paints a disturbing picture, let alone AS's book, testimony and current conduct. I found the Mother's letter odd as well.
the legal record paints a disturbing picture of AS. The book, the testimony and current conduct merely underlines the problem. I didn't find the mothers letter odd , at all. I felt that it was the most, and the best she could do under the circumstances, and I had an odd feeling that she, of all people had seen the real face of Bryer at some stage and was preparing for the very worst of denouement:... she knew what was coming.
I can well imagine they discussed taking their "war games" out of the forest and into reality. That was likely the purpose of the road trip.
How so an argument against psychopathy? . the fact that they didn't kill after Prof Dyck could be due to any number of factors.. until the bodies were found I was convinced it was lack of operative ammo. .. but after that, I figured, they didn't get the same opportunity to surprise people. People were wary and on the lookout and the last thing Kam and Bryer wanted was any sort of shoulder to shoulder confrontation. Not for them, great warriors that they thought themselves to be.
