Dr. Maurice Godwin @ 5:22 of the closing statement podcast:
"The crime itself is very unusual. You know after reading everything I could, I think one of the main motives was
retribution.
I mean anytime that you're in business making that kind of money there's always a chance that you have crossed someone, but you don't ever know it.
It's definitely someone with a criminal history.
You will likely find them in the burglary files. There's no doubt about that.
Likely that the motive was retribution and that I do not believe that the head was taken for shock value.
I don't believe that the head was taken for a trophy or anything like that.
It was personal and the head was taken to show that they meant business there and I think it was the ultimate revenge or the ultimate retribution and I think that is exactly what it was.
This is what I call a cognitive object individual.
Their cognitive awareness during the crime that anything by leaving evidence they are very forensically aware, but the object part is how they see the victim.
Rather than seeing a victim as a vehicle to vent their rage and anger on, they saw the victim as an object, just a lifeless thing, sort of like a mannequin, and so when you see something or a person like that as an object then you don't have any kind of repercussions, psychological guilt, or anything like that when you do something like removing the head.
They have sociopath tendencies of no remorse, no empathy, no conscience.
They have no empathy!
They cannot empathize that like for example other people cry, or other people hurt and have feelings. They don't have any relationship to that, but this person here saw these people as nothing but objects, a lifeless mannequin and that is all they did and in removing the head and doing what they did to his wife was just like going to get a hamburger.
When you step into someone's house, and especially a house that big and stuff and you have never really done that before, you are apt to make mistakes, but if you being in people's house illegally, breaking and entering and stuff like that and you have done it on a regular basis and stuff you are comfortable, like you are at home, so you are very more forensically aware.
These people were very forensically aware.
These are the type of people who see people as objects, objects to control, objects to treat like a lifeless thing, a mannequin. That is exactly how they saw these people here.
These are the type of people that will not talk about this, so it is going to be through investigative work that you are going to have to link them.
It is not going to be that somebody said something to somebody else and talked causing a tip.
You are looking at somebody that is in their late 30s/early 40s based on the type of crime it was, the age of the victims, and the sophistication, the elaborate planning that they did of this.
This was drawn out.
They drew this out on paper and they planned this out and they pulled it off just like a military exercise.
These people did exactly what they meant to do.
They were planning to cut his head off before they ever stepped foot on his property. There is no doubt about it.
The age, I mean, just considering doing this to a real elderly couple, a man is 88-years-old and stuff, this was really personal.
Somebody had hate.
Something went wrong in this guy's background that he didn't realize that was as bad as it was.
This was not a random thing.
Somebody had a personal revenge and they sought retribution against this person."
https://www.you tube.com/watch?v=txG9ny9HkZQ
http://www.drmauricegodwin.com/defaultmain.html
:thinking: Scary!