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    Telltale Signs of a Criminal Mind

    In the past, I have closely followed the Melanie McGuire, Scott Peterson and Casey Anthony (Tot Mom Cases)

    They all seemed to have the same characteristeristics:
    ...habitual liars
    ...Extra-marital affairs (in the McGuire and Peterson Cases
    ...Absolutely no signs of remorse or care that their loved ones are gone

    My question is what other personality characters to these types of people endure? How would you know if you are in the company of a person capable of murder? What are other signs? Why ticks inside that makes these people want to kill?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anotherview View Post
    In the past, I have closely followed the Melanie McGuire, Scott Peterson and Casey Anthony (Tot Mom Cases)

    They all seemed to have the same characteristeristics:
    ...habitual liars
    ...Extra-marital affairs (in the McGuire and Peterson Cases
    ...Absolutely no signs of remorse or care that their loved ones are gone

    My question is what other personality characters to these types of people endure? How would you know if you are in the company of a person capable of murder? What are other signs? Why ticks inside that makes these people want to kill?
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    tell tale signs of a crimial mind? Anyone can be a criminal, It depends how far you push the person and how badly the legal system has screwed them over.
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    No, not everyone can be a criminal. Rational people don't respond to setbacks with violence. Cowards do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dave338 View Post
    No, not everyone can be a criminal. Rational people don't respond to setbacks with violence. Cowards do.
    When push comes to shove, all people are capable of acting like the animals they are.

    If your survival depended on it, you'd do what you had to do in order to survive.

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    If someone came at my family with a gun, yeah - but that wouldn't make me a criminal, if it were in self-defense. Nothing the legal system does to 'screw me over' is going to threaten my survival to the point that I feel the need to gun down 13 people or drop my wife in the ocean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dave338 View Post
    No, not everyone can be a criminal. Rational people don't respond to setbacks with violence. Cowards do.
    Quote Originally Posted by Surfing USA View Post
    When push comes to shove, all people are capable of acting like the animals they are.

    If your survival depended on it, you'd do what you had to do in order to survive.
    I have to agree with surfin

    anyone imho can become a criminal..... a rational person will, if provoked enough take matters into their own hands......................
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anotherview View Post
    In the past, I have closely followed the Melanie McGuire, Scott Peterson and Casey Anthony (Tot Mom Cases)

    They all seemed to have the same characteristeristics:
    ...habitual liars
    ...Extra-marital affairs (in the McGuire and Peterson Cases
    ...Absolutely no signs of remorse or care that their loved ones are gone

    My question is what other personality characters to these types of people endure? How would you know if you are in the company of a person capable of murder? What are other signs? Why ticks inside that makes these people want to kill?
    Most criminals have high self esteem.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anotherview View Post
    In the past, I have closely followed the Melanie McGuire, Scott Peterson and Casey Anthony (Tot Mom Cases)

    They all seemed to have the same characteristeristics:
    ...habitual liars
    ...Extra-marital affairs (in the McGuire and Peterson Cases
    ...Absolutely no signs of remorse or care that their loved ones are gone
    Those three attributes are fairly common amongst politicians as well. Sam Hoyt, and Ted Kennedy come to mind.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Surfing USA View Post
    When push comes to shove, all people are capable of acting like the animals they are.

    If your survival depended on it, you'd do what you had to do in order to survive.
    Surfing-Do you mean that "everyone has their breaking point?"

    Would be hard to see Mr. Rodgers go Rambo but then again, he was supposedly the highest decorated marksman in Viet Nam and ALWAYS wore long sleeve shirts on 'The Mr. Rodgers' show to cover up his tatoos from his days as a sniper in the Marine Corps. Just another urban legend probably.


    ---Causing harm to another living being and feeling NO pain, no remorse is a major red light.

    ---Able to lie without the typical body language giveaways;Lying with a straight face (wonder if serial killers can pass polygraphs with no problem?)

    ---Feeling bad for ONLY YOURSELF (for a short time) after you're caught/arrested for murder and other acts of violence

    ---The ability to be the "ultimate actor';To put on any mask you choose without feeling the emotion(s) a facial expression (sorrow for example) is associated with
    Remember how Sanchez had that "sad, regretful look" with his head bowed low in mock apology? He felt NOTHING.

    Butchering poor helpless animals at an early age is just ONE SIGN of many and not the ONLY GIVEAWAY.

    Can't just say, "oh, they kept to themselves and didn't have no friends and"
    WRONG!
    Lots of these cold-blooded monsters had an active social life and were often "upstanding members of their community."





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    Just kept the most important paragraphs in:



    The Buffalo News : World & Nation

    Monday, April 6, 2009
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    Is American dream turning anxiety-fueled nightmare?
    A seemingly endless string of indiscriminate killings is forcing the nation to pause and ask one simple question: Why?
    By Ted Antyony
    ASSOCIATED PRESS


    Put aside for a moment the debate over guns. This isn’t about policy. It’s about asking the urgent question: What is happening in the American psyche that prevents people from defusing their own anguish and rage before they end the lives of others? Why are we killing each other?

    This is not an era of good feeling in the United States. We have under our belt eight years of pernicious terrorism angst, six years of Iraq War weariness and, now, months of wondering how bad the American economy’s going to get and when— or, worse, whether—it’s going to come back. People are tense. There’s less inclination to help out your fellow human being.

    Meanwhile, anchors and analysts and witnesses and bloggers cast about in an information- age fog trying to make sense of something that is, in the worst way, nonsensical. They rush to offer solutions, but the thing they typically dodge is that we seem to be powerless to stop it all—that our community, our neighbors, may be next. That’s too terrifying to contemplate, not to mention too open-ended for American news consumers reared on tidy Hollywood endings.




    Why are Americans losing their minds in record numbers?

    Aside from the high body count mass murders making the news
    there have been a TON of "smaller" murders (two to four people), murder-suicides that have only increased as life becomes more oppressive "in these United States."
    Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

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    '14 Signs Of A Serial Killer'

    Fourteen Characteristics of a Serial Killer. Could you be raising a criminal? Acts of violence don't come out of nowhere, and every parent should be aware of the clues along the way

    For the most violent of criminals, there are warning signs that often start in childhood. Below is a list of the 14 most common traits of serial killers:


    Over 90 percent of serial killers are male

    They tend to be intelligent, with IQ's in the "bright normal" range

    They do poorly in school, have trouble holding down jobs, and often work as unskilled laborers.

    They tend to come from markedly unstable families.

    As children, they are abandoned by their fathers and raised by domineering mothers.

    Their families often have criminal, psychiatric and alcoholic histories.

    They hate their fathers and mothers.

    They are commonly abused as children: psychologically, physically and sexually. Often the abuse is by a family member.

    Many serial killers spend time in institutions as children and have records of early psychiatric problems.

    They have high rates of suicide attempts.

    From an early age, many are intensely interested in voyeurism, fetishism, and sado-masochistic pornography.

    More than 60 percent of serial killers wet their beds beyond the age of 12.

    Many serial killers are fascinated with fire starting.

    They are involved with sadistic activity or tormenting small creatures.

    Credit goes to Dr. Phil
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    Quote Originally Posted by FMD View Post
    tell tale signs of a crimial mind? Anyone can be a criminal, It depends how far you push the person and how badly the legal system has screwed them over.

    Oh no..not anyone.
    ..and don't blame the system for your weakness.
    The evil hide even when no one is chasing them.- Proverbs

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stevenco View Post
    Oh no..not anyone.
    ..and don't blame the system for your weakness.
    nature/nurture

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    It all comes down to an individual's choice, IMO.


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