The following characteristics of a psychopath, defined by Hervery M. Cleckley in 1941 in the book Mask of Sanity include:
1) Superficial charm and average intelligence.
2) Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking.
3) Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations.
4) Unreliability.
5) Untruthfulness and insincerity.
6) Lack of remorse or shame.
7) Antisocial behavior without apparent compunction.
8) Poor judgement and failure to learn from experience.
9) Pathological egocentricity and incapacity to love.
10) General poverty in major affective reactions.
11) Specific loss of insight.
12) Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations.
13) Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink, and sometimes without.
14) Suicide threats rarely carried out.
15) Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated.
16) Failure to follow any life plan.
17) Conventional Treatment Empowers
I found
number three particularly intersesting after recently rewatching ICA's video interview with Detetective Melich.
I noticed when they offered her something to drink, she said "no thanks." (Seems it would be something to hold...something to do if you're nervous.)
I also watched her legs...no leg shaking or twitching...no foot wiggling...not even when they left her alone at times. I was thinking she'd start humming any minute.
She pulls at her clothing some, but I think that's vanity, not nervousness..wanting to look good in front of the men who were interviewing her.
For as good as Casey was as controlling/manipulating others, she sure wasn't good at reading them IMO. This text exchange with TL shows me clearly he was playing her, doing the stereotypical (excuse my wide brush) guy thing, playing cold then playing "I'll say what she wants to hear" I don't believe he was ever looking at this even close to the way ICA was.
Delusional, hopeful, or just typical (wide brush again) girl buying guy's words hook, line, and sinker?
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4770482/IM-History-with-L7Tone
Very interesting! I hadn't read that...I agree that ICA wasn't reading TL very well...But I also think all the affection she "showed" any person was opportunistic.
But I think her relationship with him is covered by
number 9and
number15 above.
TL was a place to stay and hang away from the fam...she liked the party atmosphere...but she also slept with RM during the time TL was in NT, or do I have the dates wrong...
She was telling GA and CA what great grandparents/ great dad / grandad, etc. was when she still thought they were working on bailing her out.
Acting all besties with Amy so she could have a car, more money to steal, etc...
I definitley think TL did not care as much for her as she THOUGHT he did. I beleive she THOUGHT she made him love her....but also I think that she could have cared less about him (in actual fact)...only for as long as he was useful did she/would she continue to...act that affectionate toward him.