As far as I’m concerned, the biggest way she is different is the contortions people go through to rationalize how she must be special. She’s not like other serial killers, she must have purer motives, everyone else around her is equally to blame for what she did…what other perpetrator of multiple murders gets this level of benefit of the doubt? The closest I can think of is Chris Watts, who through being completely beige has also managed to convince people to manufacture excuses for his baby killing.
I disagree with this. No one is contorting logic to get to these conclusions, no one is trying to convince anyone that she isn't 100% culpable or that her motives were somehow "purer" than any other serial killer! No one is giving her any benefit of doubt, certainly not me.
The fact remains that she is
most certainly different from the vast majority of serial killers. Even the few experts who have got their faces on the TV to speak about her have said that. She is literally nothing like anyone I can think of; she had an entirely normal past life as far as we can see, she was sociable, popular and was liked by people. There doesn't seem to be anyone, anywhere who has expressed a bad word about her. She's intelligent, well educated and seemed be extremely hard working and driven.
Sure, people bring up the fact that various serial killers had "normal" elements to their lives but there are always the people who come out and say how weird, strange they were or how they never socialised much or had strange desires, etc. Bundy didn't manage to kill as many as he tried to because several women were creeped out by him; Shipman was not universally liked as many people like to promote as several people have come out and said he was a strange semi-loner who didn't really get on with people - let's also not forget he was a Heroin addict for many years and should probably have been struck off! Bev Allitt was, and is still is, a complete lunatic who had a history of violence, abuse and being barred from pubs due be being basically insane and unhinged.
Literally the only people who have ever expressed reservations about her, that we know of, are the group of doctors who figured out what she was up to and that was only because they were intimately involved with the ward and recognised that something was going on.
Lucy Letby was initially arrested all the way back in 2018. In all that time there doesn't seem to be a single person, anywhere, who has expressed a bad word about her, her behavior or her upbringing at all. If you don't believe me just do a Google search - you won't find anyone. When I was looking I found one single lunatic on FB who claimed to have lived with her for a few years and spun some insane story about having to move to the other end of the country to get away from her as she was ruining his life with her abusive, controlling behavior. That was clearly absolute sh**e as she obviously, never lived with a fat, tattooed middle-aged bloke with an obvious penchant for massive quantities of Oranjeboom of an evening!
The only thing that seems a tad unusual about her is that she never seems to have had a boyfriend/girlfriend/significant other that anyone can determine. I don't know too many reasonably attractive young women in that situation, tbh, but maybe it's just that no one has come forward and fessed up to it? She would
definitely have had guys after her, I can state that with 100% certainty.
As I've mentioned previously, I get the impression that she maybe has some psychological hang-ups about intimate relationships. I'm not at all convinced that there was anything sexual going on with Doctor Choc. I think she fantasised about him (and vice-versa) but, ultimately, I think their "friendship" continued because she saw him as "safe" because he was married with kids and probably wouldn't cheat.
As I say, I think she is very different from most other killers. Probably all of them, tbh.
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