"Driving around and not stopping". I can't get AT out of ny head.
He wasn't even looking for a house, any house.
That house was his destination from the moment he entered the neighborhood for the first time (and indeed from August forward IMO).
Devastating to think four young people had only minutes left to live.
Devastating to hear Murphy barking.
The time lapse was chilling. Just knowing what evil he perpetrated.
It is a far bridge from "I don't feel anything" to "since i don't feel anything I'm going to kill people to see how it feels" but it looks like the felon traversed that bridge at mach speed. Four beautiful, feeling lives sacrificed in order for him to exact his wicked experiment -- unfettered power, control, dominance and curiosity. So entirely senseless.
He's a liar too. He DOES feel. He's just an awful human being whose feelings are counter-decency. Counter-humanity. IMO you could see it in his micro-expressions during the victim impact statements. Here he is, a stone cold murderer, and he has the GALL to be irritated, annoyed, smug, superior, angry, offended. From duper's delight to a fixed jaw to feral salivating. No shame. No remorse. Not moved. Proud. Spoke 'guilty' to four murders like he was in a spelling bee.
I don't think he feels bad about the sheath either -- his own incompetence which caught him. Undoubtedly he blames the victims for that. Amazing how people like the felon forgive themselves easily -- not their fault EVER.
Tragically he doesn't value what the rest of us do -- freedom, family, friends, careers, purpose, intimacy -- has no issue stealing it from other peopke without so much as a shrug, and no deterrent. I don't think he much enjoyed life -- education, exercise, TAing, etc. IMO he tolerated all that while getting off on manipulating people. He had the uncanny ability to see everyone as beneath him. Exceot those who were above him whom IMO he deemed himself a peer. Chummy with professors, traffic police, arresting officers. Total inflated ego.
Life in segregation probably suits him. He's his favorite person.
What matters is that he's behind bar, for the protection of the public.
It's terrifying to watching his Elantra looping. Unnerving to know this wasn't even his first time. 20+ times. During the dark of night when he has no business being there.
It is why we are instinctively afraid of the dark.
You look out your window and see nothing.
But a figure, protected by shadows, can see you, plain as day.
They walk among us.
And that's the scariest thing of all.
JMO