I did not get this interstate agreement on detainers, does it mean he will serve the first part of the sentence in Pennsylvania and then the other part in New York state, or because the crime committed in NYC is much more serious all of those years will be ''merged'' so to speak and he will be in prison in the same state all the time?
Watching this video and the pictures shown in it, it's unbelievable this boy became a murderer. He looks so normal. He reminds me of some of my former students in Parma, even the outburst outside the courthouse. It makes me wonder if sometime during those months he went completely ''under the radar'', he had a mental breakdown he sought no medical help for and that caused permanent damage to his cognitive abilities. That considerable weight loss is also very strange.
I guess psychologists & psychiatrists in the Altoona jail are looking into that.
Jmoo.
Mental illness can confer "permanent cognitive damage" on a person, of course, although many illnesses have periods of remission.
You can't tell who is mentally ill by their looks (many "normal" looking people are mentally ill; the guy who plays Trump on SNL (Darrell Hammond) is schizophrenic. So was Betty Paige. And Veronica Lake and Clara Bow. And Mary Todd Lincoln.
I am not implying that LM Is schizophrenic, but it is one of those illnesses that can permanently change cognition. So can Bipolar - and people with Bipolar look normal. Vivian Leigh, for example. Carrie Fisher. Mel Gibson. Catherine Zeta-Jones. Mariah Carey. Jane Pauley.
With treatment, some of the cognitive changes can be mitigated. I wouldn't say that any of these illnesses involves brain damage, per se - but their brains do have unusual activity when their symptoms are active.
IMO, merely going "under the radar" (including ghosting a friend who asked him to be part of a wedding and also his entire family, such that Mom doesn't even know what city he is in) is a set of symptoms, in and of itself. Unless there were tensions in his family that we don't know about (and they apparently didn't, either), ghosting one's parents and siblings is an unusual/atypical thing to do. A parent becoming worried enough to file a missing person report and hire a PI is concerned about this sudden change in behavior.
I do wonder if his desire to start a book club (to read Ted K with friends) was another bit of odd behavior, in retrospect. I guess the simplest explanation would be that somehow he was radicalized along the way (perhaps by losing his job in the capitalist start-up sector and seeing how brutal life can be as an unemployed 20-something; relative deprivation theory applied).
As LM becomes convinced of his own revolutionary ideas and ideals, he alienates/pushes away and eventually avoids the joint living situation (which was quasi-friendship to begin with, it was a shared rental experiment first and foremost, IMO). He eventually pushes away everyone who has known him previously.
Link below is about the incidence of homicide committed by Bipolar I individuals, during their depressive phase. One form of Bipolar homicide in this 22 year long study is...atruistic homicide during the depressive phase. That means killing someone in order to benefit others - or even with the delusional belief that the victim is better off, somehow.
He was right at the age where Bipolar often becomes diagnosable. Wanting to save the world through revolution is arguably a manic kind of symptom - and when the world doesn't change, the depression is severe. Some Bipolars switch states rapidly (as in, within one 24 hour period; this is unusual, but my point is that the switch between the states is unpredictable and governed by the person's thoughts and their degree of illness).
Anyway, I'm on the same page as you with the idea that there's some kind of mental break going on here. There are other plausible theories, of course, but given the attorney he has hired, I think mental health is going to be an issue in this case.
IMO.