One other thing- psychopathic murderers tend to relive the murder with pleasure, not horror. If she were capable of being horrified, she would have stopped what she was doing to Caylee when she saw the look in Caylee's eyes before the moments of death. Caylee was like a bug to her. Squish.
2. Originally posted by Verité.
I'm also at a loss as to where to find a reference about the sleep/dream manifested pleasure which APDs (psychopaths) derive from revivification
(reliving/re-experiencing their prowess during murders). Help, please?
I've found no corroboration in the literature for the claim that psychopathic killers tend to relive their murders with pleasure during their sleep-dream-or
wakeful states. If you, elementary, could provide any reference for this, I'd be grateful. I assume that the only way to gain access to the data would be
through self-report, i.e. case study of the criminal, but so far I've not found anything about this phenomenon in the professional or true crime literature.
(There is, of course, the fictional account of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, but he's hardly representative of the population of sociopaths.)