Recent content by pittsburghgirl

I'm not the mother of a mass murderer. But I know what it is to draw some boundaries with someone who is very very self-absorbed and narcissistic. The one positive about prison for his parents is no longer having to worry about him functioning out in the world. So I'd limit that phone time.

There is always a chance that an accused person will be found not guilty or that there will be a hung jury. What you post here are the aggravating factors pointing to the death penalty, which have nothing to do with whether to seek consecutive life without parole with no appeals. All of these...

I dunno. I've been teaching college kids for years. I've seen them wearing crocs outside in deep snow, kids wearing shorts when it's zero out, girls wearing spaghetti straps tops...the surviving roommate might know who always wore socks and/or shoes.

I think the inmate's reaction to prison is not at all surprising and one reason why I had no qualms about the DP being off the table. He will have a profoundly miserable life in prison.

I looked the PA information up when people were speculating the killer might want a transfer there. It also happens I live here so I was interested. The media accessed by inmates in Idaho (and PA) is from a closed system and all media must be screened for violent or other sexual content by...

In Pennsylvania, internet access is controlled by the institution. Inmates are not given access to the internet or unapproved software, or "network connection that is active."

It's interesting to me that many observers don't understand that prison is horrible and you have no control over your life. That will be excruciating for a guy who thinks he's superior to others and expects to be on the same level as the people in charge.

What I find interesting about those stops is that Inmate is a terrible driver who doesn't know enough not to tailgate trucks. He gets caught at it twice in just a few minutes. (And the second stop confirms what we learned in the infamous "PA has no crosswalks" stop in Moscow--that he believed no...

Thanks for sharing this video. What the Cellebrite interviews and WSU documents did for me was correct any notion I had that the now-Inmate had the capacity to be a functioning adult in the academic or working world. The calls to his parents are shocking in terms of his need for not just daily...

I think you're on to something here. Two of the hallmarks of people with anti-social personality disorder is a lack of empathy toward others and a sense of superiority over others. These people don't see others as human or like themselves. As the TA's words tell us, they see others as objects...

Is he eligible for a tablet yet? In PA, inmates have rack up some days in prison before they can apply.

I teach at a small university and park in the same lots as my students. I couldn't tell you the make, model or color of any student's car (other than that kid with the Ferrari). A professor teaching a graduate class may see that student once or twice a week for 3-5 hours, almost all of which...

"Premonition" is not necessarily some supernatural ability. it's being emotionally open to the meaning of what's around you and acknowledging and responding to your own fear and uneasiness in the situation.

Thanks, Warwick7. I'm glad you reposted this--and thanks for doing that on the last thread. This is a fascinating interview. One thing I learned is that the simple device of turning off the phone before committing a crime is evidence in itself, first because that is not the killer's usual...

He is a former addict drinking a whole bottle of wine as a first-year grad student at a college event, when most people (not addicts, not killers) are trying to make the best possible Impression on faculty.