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IMO, people are too complex and ever-changing to completely understand themselves and their own actions, much less explain themselves to others. And 10 times more for killers.
Even if someone was radically honest about themselves, IMO the best we could say was "It seemed like a good idea at the time".
JMO
Great observation.
Or maybe even, “I do it because I enjoy it?”
(I think that ultimately it is the answer for many SKs.) For people like E who at this point is a mass murderer, I wonder if it is “I did it because I thought I’d get away with it”.
This being said, there is something special about poisoning. I remember “the Accursed Kings”, a wonderful sequel of novels by the famous Maurice Druon. He did depict a serial poisoner, Beatrice, who was involved in political assassinations. The persona as depicted by Druon is phenomenally interesting. The sense of power as after all, she was elevated to the level of her boss (the rich feudal woman), peppered by some medieval idea of witchcraft, but mostly, the poisoner quietly making her own way up by murder. (The translation of the books has been re-issued in English and Spanish.) The books are written so well that I sometimes wonder if EP read them… and got “inspired” by the dark-haired, quiet beauty who so boldly used this tool? Erin loved to read, so the version of “a romantic psychopath” can never be excluded. JMO.