I believe the story, but IMO, that probably wasn't his real motivation. I believe that he is just a stone cold psychopath and serial killer who wanted to find people to kill and used the "bad deals" excuse to justify it in his own mind. No one who's a small time dealer but not a psychopath feels so threatened by a 4 oz pot deal that he shoots the buyer(s), burns their bodies and buries them. Not even once, let alone three times. If the deal was for $3m worth of heroin or something, maybe. 4 oz of pot? No way, he was just looking for an excuse to kill people.
The report of Cosmo and his friend and the Wawa guy is really chilling in retrospect since it seems like he was out trolling for victims. if that guy had taken him up on his offer to "do business" or whatever, he might have ended up in the hole, too...
I haven't posted on this case until now, but I have read all posts in every thread. Thank you everyone for supplying such good information.
I totally agree with you. I am very reluctant to believe any mental diagnoses especially when someone is of high intelligence and CDs IQ is said to be 158. It wouldn't be the first time nor the last that highly intelligent psychopaths have been able to fool the very best in the mental health field. I haven't seen anyone say CD was hearing voices or was delusional.
Trying to act like a bad *advertiser censored* is not a delusion. Many psychopaths are pathological liars and will say and do anything during the time they are around others they may be trying to snare into their web of lies and deceit. They can and often 'appear' to be whatever they feel the need to be at any given time if they believe it gives them the advantage.
His excuse for killing all of these four young men makes no sense to me. All four stiffed him? Nope, I don't believe that for one nano-second. I don't think any of them stiffed him. Psychopaths always make themselves into being the victim instead of the victims they have victimized. Even now in death he disparages them all.
I think he lured them there with a premeditated intention of murdering them all.
I haven't seen anywhere where he has been ruled incompetent. Mentally insane is a high threshold to overcome in criminal mass murder cases or any murder case for that matter. The standard for mentally insane by judicial standards is far different than it is in the medical field. Did he know these murders were wrong? It is blatantly obvious he knew these four murders were very wrong and that is why he went to the trouble of burning the bodies of at least some in order to destroy evidence then hiding the remains 12.5 feet under ground.
I think he was a monster and a serial killer wannabee. I wonder if he had ever been known to harm defenseless animals. I think his psychopath traits started much further back than when he received his head injury.
Imo, if this goes to trial he will be evaluated most likely by three different mental health professionals. 1. Doctor picked by the defense. 2. Doctor selected by the DA 3. The presiding judge will appoint another one.
If he chooses to plead guilty of first degree murder in all four he will still be evaluated beforehand. I think he will be ruled competent and I think his defense attorney already knows that.
There are thousands of prisoners in prisons in every state in the union with some type of mental disorder. None of the mental disorders prevented them from being convicted, and sentenced. Many are on death row. Nor did it stop a plea deal from coming to fruition. Either way it goes, he will get LWOP. IMO.
Its sad they had to parlay with this monster in order to locate one of the missing men when they had already found three, but I do understand why they did it this way for the family's sake and all of the time and money that would have to be spent trying to locate one body on 98 acres of land. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if other bodies of other missing people are also possibly found.
My heart breaks for the four young men and for their families.
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