Dennis Rader (BTK) used a similar ploy on Shirley Vian, who i believe was his 5th murder victim, after the Otero family. And we all know that BK knows a lot about BTK. She was ill and I believe her got her a glass of water and comforted her! FAKE! I think it just shows the utter contempt these psychopaths have for other human beings.
Contempt is a perfect word.
Contempt for women who don't see him, contempt for authority, contempt for students, contempt for traffic cops....
IMO this is exactly where clustered personality disorders come in. Reactions and emotions that everyone has, been generally in check, apropos of the situation. Psychopathy, not a diagnosis. Just a way to describe someone whose psychological make-up is diseased. Dysfunctional. Counter-community. Counter everything.
That traffic stop, he wasn't even getting ticketed. He about a thank you, I'm sorry, so it can be over fast? He had to draw it out, like it was her job, roadside, to teach him the rules we're all supposed to adhere to. Look it up, BK. On your own time. We know you know how to operate a keyboard and a search engine, even with your feebly fingers.
He actually barfed up how-many excuses in the one, inconsequential stop? Not my fault, didn't do it, was barely over the line, didn't know I couldn't, not familiar with them, we don't have them back in PA, and actually there's a lot more leeway there, the lines are....
Whatever, BK. You commit a minor traffic infraction
in front of a cop (How's your peripheral vision, Dude?) She stopped you, she's letting you go, for the sake of all that is holy and good (which might be his allergy),
let her go already.
Social awareness low? Only because gis big ego edges it out. He's annoyed, that she stopped him. Waste her time, convince her with his polite (as uf) queries and sudden curiosity. Contempt. That she should challenge him.
He must have been a real delight in the classroom.
I daresay Prof Ramsland might be the first woman in all of BK's life who was interested in what he had to say, a topic which might be macabre for general audiences, and here he had a professional ear who didn't find him weird but brilliant. It probably didn't seem like a creepy fixation to her, at the time, just a graduate student, invested in higher learning.
She didn't probably know he was invested, not in learning, but doing.
BK probably thought the oddest thing about himself was that, in planning out a murder, he left the whom for last.
JMO