Incredibly accurate from what I have been told, in fact eerily so. Could you direct me to that topic, I am fascinated with the family's viewpoint on this subject. And again your insight is absolutely amazing.
Id have to dig back through old posts, ill just give the cliff notes version
Why do family members protect a relative whos been convicted of a a horrific crime ?
I stood there watching Carrie come out of the court house she walked with a cane, with her younger son, as she exited the courthouse after her oldest child was just found guilty of abducting raping then bludgeoning a college student to death and left her body strewn among trash in a vacant lot , he was was later convicted of another abduction murder of another woman.
Carrie and another of her children, her youngest son then proceeded to come out and start assaulting reporters who were only there to ask questions, she was spitting , and swinging her cane at people just standing there while her son, began swinging at anyone who got within arms reach, how the both of them weren't arrested on the spot till this day amazes, me,
Years later when the full breadth of her sons crimes, were revealed , her son, who was already a convicted murderer out of Nevada , who was on parole when he became a serial killer, a reporter tried to interview her for a segment , upon opening the door, she began spitting on the news crew throwing things at them and slammed the door in their face
What did her son do ?
Well while he was out on parole for second degree murder, he absconded from Nevada to PA , while there he decided, he was going to take whatever he wanted from anyone, including sex.
His MO wasnt sophisticated, as neither is he, he would ram a car (usually stolen) into a unsuspecting females, car, when they got out to look at the damage, he would beat them unconscious with a crowbar, he would then abduct the women to a remote area where he would rape and sodomize them before beating them to death and leaving their bodies somewhere .
With his first victim, he hid the body, with the second he simply discarded her like trash among a trash strewn lot in North Philadelphia, we can already see the increasing callous indifference toward his victims.
In the case, he was convicted for, the victim was run over with another missing woman's car several times, to make sure she was dead .
He was matched to 2 murders through DNA, and a mountain of other evidence
Yet there apparently is at least one woman, who thinks everyone's just out to get her son ......
He remains on Death row in Pennsylvania
There are several reasons, usually its a deep rooted belief held that its "family above all else".
Now this can be due to struggles the family enured as a unit, it could be cultural such as how for example those of Italian decent are very family oriented, but there are many reasons why some circle the wagons around one of their own, even if said individual is responsible for some atrocity.
Each case is different, some are just private people and want nothing to do with the sudden notoriety they are receiving, the do so to protect their children, their reputation, some fear the criticisms that will be coming for them, some spend their whole lives getting to t point of balance and the actions of a relative they may not even like now thrust them out on a platter.
Remember this , Psychopaths are, for the most part , born, Sociopaths are for the most part, made .
When you see a individual who possesses Sociopath tendencies, you often have to look backward into their past, their family life etc...though a bad upbringing does not pre-dispose one to becoming a violent offender, When that individual does something horrible and the family defends that individual you usually dont have to look very far to see where that came from .
Im not saying this is the case, with this particular family, im just explaining how dynamics, and attitudes shape certain individuals .
"Maam your son just confessed to over 30 murders "
(exhales).."Hmmm......Well...Ok so who wants pie?"...Elanor Cowell (Mother of Ted Bundy)
Some people believe in family above all else, no matter what, some cases, as with Carrie above , you see the roots of it, in some cases, they feel like they are protectinfg their childs odd behavior , in some cases, they are ignorant of what they are really looking at , and we as family units, do our best to normalize any, as I refer to it as "ripple in the water"
"We never made anything of it, we thought he was just going to grow up and get into science, and thats why he liked bones, we didnt know what we were looking at etc".. Lionel Dahmer on his son Jeffrey
Even post offense we see famlies often try to explain away tragedies, or use verbiage to soften the real horror that their loved one was responsible for
“I try to be as honest about that as I could. I didn't want to make it graphic, but I wanted to make it honest,Because, you know, from a mother's perspective, of course, there is a tendency to want to soften all the horrible things that he did.”...Sue Kliebold (Mother of Columbine shooter Dylan Kliebold)
So though there are legitimate reasons some do this there are also those who despise any blemish on them or their family name, and in some cases, they react unexpectedly and even violently in the face of any attention
We as a species, tend to want to hunt the wolf, we want to roast him in effigy, but we also need to consider the wolf has a family, who may be in shock, or may not be in shock.
Some will throw that individual right into the jaws of LE, others may hide even the most savage secrets.
