They are the time bombs of any community. It is , possibly, easy to state that signs must have been missed, and that is , in one sense very true, but if the signs are not known, or not registered in the mind as a sign of something larger and more devastating coming down the pipe , then the signs, such as they are , remain a low hum in the background, over ridden by louder sounds of life and time . Perhaps these signs are only seen from a backwards perspective...
Whoever does discover the cure for it, though, should bottle and trademark it.
And yes, 'seemingly had it all'.... it is easier to list what they didn't have going for them, the top of the list would be empathy, than to list all the advantages they both had and still have. Even in prison, they will be young, fit, white, tall, slim, articulate, trained in a trade, ( cop and electrician ) educated ( both from private schools , maybe not very well, but even so ) they still hold a lot of aces in comparison to many others.....