alexia
Former Member
doesn't the GreenRiver guy look a little like Christian Slater? He sure does on today's CNN photo.
Not physically powerful, I don't think, but the rest looks pretty accurate. But most of that goes without saying. What happy, well employed, remorseful, intelligent, etc person goes around killing people? If you don't have any hang-ups, you have no reason to harm anyone else.Originally posted by Maxi
Let's look up all the profilers' predictions about the Green River Killer. How close were they?
Here's a summary of John Douglas' opinion, from Mindhunter. (His famous collapse came during his work on the Green River case.)
"...a physically powerful, inadequate,underemployed white male, comfortable with the river, who felt no removesr for what he was doing...a man on a mission who'd had humiliating experiences with women and was now out to punsih as many as he could...no mental giant...unsophisticated..."
Originally posted by Toth
I think its like those South American countries where the cities are overrun by urchins begging in the streets, particularly in touristy areas,,, except in the places where the police death squads go out and "remove the problem".
I'm not saying it should be legal or that he should not be punished, but I really would like to see the financial calculations on how much disease he stopped from being spread, how many robberies he stopped from being committed, how much neighborhood blight he removed, etc.
Originally posted by jblfelines
I heard on TV someone saying he may end up like Dahmer. He will be in general population.
Originally posted by Toth
Has anyone done any FINANCIAL calculations on this case? How many times would his victims have been arrested and jailed for prostitution if he had not killed them? How much money was saved there? How much disease would they have transmitted if he had not killed them? What were the financial savings there?
How much worse would property values have been if all those prostitutes had been out plying their trade? I think one reason he may have escaped the death penalty is that while he is a murderer many times over, no one really seems too upset by that fact. What is the cost of giving him free medical care as he ages versus the cost of killing him?
Originally posted by WhiteWolf
Toth, he escaped the death penalty because he cooperated with authorities by giving them the names and locations of his victims (that he could remember), which in turn brought some closure for the victims families.