Since I started the discussion regarding the effects of abnormally high levels of testosterone on aggression in males, I hope you don't mind if I reply to this post.
Your post is kind of hitting on multiple thoughts you had, but I do not think any of us are apologists for Jake Patterson. He IS a self confessed, cold- blooded killer who killed James Closs and Denise Closs with disregard for human life and who brutally and forcefully abducted their minor child, Jayme Closs, and held her hostage for a period of 88 days before she escaped.
Because of these actions, I believe that most people think he deserves the maximum sentence available, life without parole based upon his own confession and physical evidence collected. He is entitled to due process and a jury trial by his peers. I, and I believe all our posters, and everyone who knows about the crimes, are for justice for Jayme and her parents in this case.
Patterson has confessed ( document on page 1 of each thread since the Criminal Complaint was released.) I and I think all our posters would never seek to excuse what he did
as there is no excuse but there is also no simple reason in the absence of an undiagnosed rare finding such as a brain tumor.
I think most of us ( us being any persons who know the released content of the Criminal Complaint he signed) believe there are likely MULTIPLE FACTORS which turned a very young man, just barely considered to be an adult in the U.S. in most states, into a violent double murderer and kidnapper.
Respectfully to all males everywhere, we definitely know most men do not do what he has confessed to doing, regardless of their hormone levels or ANY OTHER factor/ factors.
Some posters have speculated and wondered how and why a 21 year old with no prior violent history came to the point of having committed 2 brutal murders and abducting a girl barely in her teens and petite in size. Some posters have speculated and tried to figure out his family dynamics and early life, and I added a bit of clinical info about the role of an imbalance of testosterone, or its component, DHT, plays or can play on male aggression. I think it is rational at this point in time to discuss how and why this young man could do such a thing, and it's become clear that there are likely many factors which turned him from a probably loving young child to a killer in the years of his maturation process.
Grasping a partial understanding of what factors pushed or pulled him to this point at 21 years old with no prior known crimes is not excusing what he did.
Our focus and sympathies lie with Jayme and her parents, but at this point in time and forward, Jayme deserves respect and privacy unless she chooses to speak publicly.
So, in discussing the crime and pre-crime and post- crime aspects, we are discussing the confessed perp. Jake Patterson.
Chili, I always read your posts and respect them. This is a set of unusual criminal actions in many aspects.
I love and appreciate your posts as well.
