I think his history of heavy drinking could possibly be an explanation for a brazen broad daylight attack in Delphi. In fact, I was recently reading about a case years ago where 2 teens were abducted at a park in broad daylight (they were shot but miraculously survived) and they had said the abductor smelled of alcohol and had obviously been drinking.
I spent a few years working in a rehabilitation clinic after overcoming my own issues with alcohol and drug addiction. I’m not trying to diagnose and I’m not a psychiatrist...I don’t want to offend any moderators...but the body takes a long time to recover physically and mentally from addiction. While a person can be in recovery, their chemical levels can be all over the place for a long time. I don’t know how much of a person exists in blackout, but even at my most effed up...I absolutely knew right from wrong. IMO there has to be some underlying predator desire to do what we know he’s being charged with.
Of course. But the alcohol likely allowed that side of him to come out.
Yes, I think it can definitely cause people to be more uninhibited. I bet he was drinking on the day of the crime.
If he were blacked-out during the crime at his house, would LE be able to recognize he was in that state when they interacted with him?It is entirely possible for a person to not recall anything, for hours, in a blackout. In fact, alcoholics, and other heavy drinkers, often have blackouts, where they do not recall entire evenings, things they did, things they said. The argument that there is a 'conscience' during an alcohol induced blackout would make for good discussion. A person in a blackout simply doesn't know what they are doing, or saying, and doesn't recall any of it, they are unaware of their actions.
So it is quite possible a person could commit murder, and not remember it. In fact, a lifer did just that. He murdered his wife, wound up in prison that very night, upon coming out of the blackout asked to call her, and was told he had murdered her. It was the first he was made aware of his killing his own wife. He did not recall any of it. These are things learned when involved in the field, and carrying a message of hope and recovery as a part of a prison and institution commitment
"Blacking out does not mean that a person becomes unconscious, like falling asleep. Instead, people often continue to interact with others, engage in routine or potentially dangerous behaviors, and even continue to drink. People who blackout may drive themselves home, engage in a sexual encounter, destroy property, spend too much money, or choose other risky behaviors.
People who are blackout drunk are more likely to physically injure themselves. They have also been known to walk home, brush their teeth, eat meals, or go through other normal behaviors. They do not remember these behaviors because their brain does not move those experiences into memory. Once the person begins to sober up, the brain will begin to process memories normally again."
Blackout Drinking: Impaired Judgement, Memory Loss, and Other Harmful Effects
This is regarding the crime against the 9yo. (I had to check the title of the thread to make sure.)
Is the only "proof" of a blackout the lack of memory of the person who is blacked out? No other way to tell for sure?
This may be a Daily Mail embellishment, it’s not at all what the police report says
That’s just the standard verbiage used on police reports. The blank forms have spaces to fill in for Victim 1, Victim 2 (and so on and so forth) for incidents that involve multiple victims. If an incident involves a single victim, they only fill out the information for Victim 1. In the summary section of the form, officers will often refer to the victim as “Victim 1” (or Victim 2, Victim 3, etc) in their statement/summary of events rather than using their name. For example, a report might look like this —
Sounds reminiscent of Ted Bundy. Grew up believing his mother was an older sister and that his grandmother was his mother. He expressed a lifelong resentment toward his mother for never talking to him about his real father, and for leaving him to discover his true parentage for himself.
I misunderstood then — my apologies!
