Don't ever underestimate good.
'I never ever underestimate Evil, Starry Night'.. "Good triumphs Evil"!
Quote by Roger L. Depue “Between Good and Evil” Author & Retired FBI BAU Profiler:
http://www.amazon.com/Between-Good-Evil-Profilers-Predators/dp/0446532649
My job has been to try to stop human predators before they kill again, and after studying them so closely over so many years, to me their traits seem clearly recognizable.
Evil is more than a vague notion. It is an entity, and it is manifest on the earth. It has reflexes and intuition, senses vulnerability, and changes its form to adapt to its surroundings. Those who do not believe the Devil walks this earth have not seen the things that I have seen.
Evil is not a discrete entity that springs forth fully formed. It is born in the mind, takes root there as fantasy, and prospers when normal human restraint can no longer contain it. I have seen it devour the personalities of men like Richard Speck, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Ted Bundy, turning them into blank-faced sociopaths who clearly know right from wrong, but choose, time and again, to follow their own base urges, with complete disregard for the terrible human suffering they cause.
I believe that every act of homicide causes a slight unbalancing in the world, and that it diminishes life’s universal equation. In the interest of justice, it is imperative that someone try to right that imbalance. But the task of fighting evil can take a terrible toll on the people who are charged with it. It can cost them their families, their equilibrium, their capacity for joy...
It doesn't seem too bright to lure your target to your home town - and a small one at that - to commit the crime. And then to leave the car sticking out of the pond that close to your house. Maybe he thought he would be able to sink it completely but that was as far as it would go into the pond.
If the Runion's children are correct that they didn't take the money with them, maybe not having cash on them made Towns so mad he flipped out on them and killed them.
This was not the outcome I was hoping for.....
Age 28 for a man: wants to get married-or so sunk in vice he goes off the rails.
This guy had everything going for him-handsome, beautiful wife, beautiful child, secure roof over his head, God's land to enjoy nature.........good family. What the heck happened last year or 2 in his life to be involved in this mess. Is living in the country or a small town so boring that drama must take over?
Did he work?
I think meth dealers or gambling debts or some other scandal made him vulnerable-maybe they threatened his family.
Or is he a Lone Wolf with societal problems from day one? A lot for LE to sort out and I imagine many a scared person in that county.
Oh Lord this is absolutely tragic.
What did he think he had to gain by the fact that they were driving from SO far away? Or did it not occur to him that there could possibly be any link whatsoever to him? Idiot, mongrel, worthless garbage who just robbed so many people of loving family members, all for money that he would've (had he gotten away with it undetected...) spent on what, drugs? a new truck? downpayment on a little house he would have to live in with a wife and visiting relatives who never knew how much evil was contained in him? I absolutely, positively, do not understand this raised-heart-rate, "my lucky break!", manner of evil.
One of the most absolutely heartbreaking cases I've read on WS. The thought of Bud dreaming of a certain boyhood car for decades. His sweetheart going along with him for the ride through pretty countryside to finally get it. R.J. Towns, was likely aware that stranger/slight acquaintance abductions/murders combined with jurisdictional linkage blindness are the most difficult to solve by homocide investigators. RJT did not factor in the effectiveness of internet social media and msm awareness created in this case, nor the Sheriff utilizing all available investigative resources; immediately requesting the GBI<Georgia Bureau of Investigations>..
'Just wondering if there is any more vehicles or other indictable evidence possibly located beneath the surface of the pond'?
Just.. VILE.
Imo, the Runions were not born yesterday and although likely trusting individuals, were well aware of the possible dangers of making a large purchase from a stranger via a craigslist ad.
RE: One of the most absolutely heartbreaking cases I've read on WS.
Yes, bettiepageturner, the Runion murders is one of the most heinous and heartbreaking cases on WS.. Imo, there will be a direct or indirect link to drugs, likely meth..
From observations of patterns from researching sexual predators & psychopathic serial killers from the 1980's CA speed freak killers to the present.
There seems to be a common denominator of methamphetamine use/abuse attributed to these senseless and horrific crimes. From Pastors to Politicians, seems that no one is exempt or excluded. Meth appears to be the primary catalyst for psychopaths to act out their fantasies, which create new sadistic psychopathic tendencies in otherwise normal personalities..
Blame the Brain..
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/science-scope/blame-the-brain-psychopaths-are-wired-differently/
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Psychopaths (now often coyly
labelled sociopaths) are the only real persons, places, things, in
their world. The rest of us are figments of their imagination, in
effect, to be manipulated and used in anyway appropriate and
convenient to their needs.
If they believe it to be ultimately useful
to their purposes to be kind and generous and considerate towards
someone, they will -- without limit, if helpful to their ends -- or
if they believe it to be more convenient to destroy someone, they
will. There is no such thing as truth or lies external to them --
which explains why such persons can readily pass lie detector tests,
for example.
A quasi-religious psychiatrist I knew said they were born without
souls. A philosopher long ago came to literally believe that there
are people in this world who are actually not really human beings,
but who absolutely emulate the real thing and are basically
impossible to recognize as non-human. I think he was trying to
explain the psychopath.
