I'm not a professional, but I see Scott Peterson as being a sociopath/psychopath. He's never confessed and he put his wife's family through unbelievable hell with his many lies. They had to wait for four months before her body and the baby's body washed up in San Francisco Bay before they knew, for sure, that they had been murdered.
With CW, he tried to hide his heartless and hideous crime, and he gave bizarro interviews after to try to make people believe he had no idea what happened to his family. But unlike Scott Peterson, CW caved rather quickly. Is this a sign of genuine remorse and conscience, or did he cave because he was presented by LE with proof that he killed them and hid their bodies and he had no choice but to admit it?
I really don't know at this point.
This is something I would like to try and understand. After reading about a couple of other familicide cases I didn't expect CW to confess so quickly. But on the other hand he hadn't had any chance to tidy up properly, or he didn't realize that he needed to tidy up better? Too arrogant to tidy up better? I think the lack of thought might mean it wasn't well pre-planned?
But others here could see signs that CW would confess. And despite some nervous laughing and a little bit of upturned lips he doesn't really strike me quite the same as Peterson/en? I wasn't familiar with the Peterson case and I watched a video of him talking to a reporter at a table where he gets a huge grin on his face at times and he can't hide his glee.
I did think CW looked like he had a bit of a smirk on his face on one video where he's standing outside the house (NT and AT are there too) watching LE going into the house.
But going back to other people seeing signs of CW breaking....I can sort of see them in retrospect. He really didn't want to stay in that house, he's talking about a ghost town feeling in the house, he said the previous night (his first night in the house after murdering his family) was terrible. And I wonder if he was telling the truth when he said that he'd been in the house and wishing for his little girls to come and jump on him in joy at him being their daddy. I don't know if he fully appreciated the specialness of moments like that when they were alive.
And at the same time he was apparently telling NT and AT that he was planning on selling the house. I have a vague recollection that he even said something about moving on? So I took that as him being cold and wanting to move on and start anew, which scared me as I feel someone who's done this once is at risk of doing it again with a new wife and family. But maybe he wanted to sell the house because he really couldn't bear to be in the place where it happened and surrounded by the memories? But those things obviously didn't bother him when he 'did it'. And he had to do it three times over?
I am curious what is in someone's head/makeup that allows them to do something like this. And what triggers them, what are the catalysts and triggers? We can always say that other people go through bankruptcy without killing their families, other people divorce and deal with irretrievable marriage breakdowns, they work out a way to keep a relationship going with their children even if they're no longer living together. So, what is different in the heads of people who commit these awful acts?
