He did, but it was not because he was such a great actor, IMO. That was also an intricate part of JM. He could be a big, goofy, likeable guy, and probably was truly that way most of the time. That's the thing with anyone who does horrible things. They could kill someone in cold blood and take whatever time to do so which could be as little as an instant, and then be helping an old lady across the street, being generous kind and wonderful for the next however long, until something else crosses their path. They just are willing to go over a line that most of us stop short at, or even back off when we get a certain distance of it. When we get mad at someone, want something badly, notice some opportunity, we don't go there. JM and other criminals keep going and cross that line
Yeah guys pick up girls all of the time with the hopes of "Scoring". Morally wrong? Yeah, but if both adults are so interested even though they might both or just one not be in full control due to substance abuse, it happens all of the time, and is often truly consensual at the time. Noone makes anything of it afterwards, and it 's private business. Sometimes, the girl balks but it happens anyways, but it went way too far for the girl to make much of it since what the heck can be the evidence in a court of law when you go beyond a certain point and change your mind? But with JM, he went waaay beyond this many times. In some cases, still not far enough for a case to be made against him, but enough that the females in the situation took the trouble to file complaints with the university and for two schools to expel him on that basis. LE couldn't or wouldn't take it further but he was thrown out of the schools without any conviction, trial or charges,
His activities that night from what others have said show someone who crosses lines that most people wouldn't. Those women had to get rude with him, and he still pressed on. BUt even so, he came across more liek a bufoon than a predator. No one called the police. They just got away from him and I double if they had called LE, that any charges for what he did in public were chargeable, except possibly the guy he injured in horse play. But even that, the people right there, victim included did not think it was deliberate. Just a big goofy likeable guy who just goes a little too far. That incident, by the way, shows that his "obnoxiousness and consisten annoyance" was not just directed towards women. He's probably hurt a number of people, broken things all within a circle of "it's an accident" and may well have been. He punched an attorney, but the guy dropped the charges, because he truly felt it was a loss of temper immediate reaction and almost understanable JM always was close enough to normalcy and understandable breach of boundaries that people could see it as a mistake, and not press on. Also in court with so many charges so clearly over the line, these things will get dropped. If everyone, anyone got jailed for those thing, got a criminal record beyond a dropped complaint, the system overload would be ridiculous. JM has a horrendous record when one takes it in its entirety, but at what point was it a flag that this was a dangerous person?
Frankly, had he come from an upscale family, they would have made him go into heavy duty therapy with the lack of boundaries and problems he had with it. But that is not something that happens with most of the population. I'm hoping, but not really that optimistic, that the inclusion of mental health to be treated as physical health under health care provisions would open up that kind of treatment for those who have mental problems. No idea if it makes a difference, but at least something to be tried. That if he was going to a mental health specialist who was working on his behavior and impulse issues with him, that he could have learned the boundaries better. But if he's a true sociopath (and my opiion is he is), I don't think it would have made a difference. That 2005 rape was out of the blue, and there are no gray areas around it. MH's case is a murder, a brutal one from what I've been reading. Not someone who went a little too far here And we have Hannah still missing. Not at home or at UVA with charges files that JM went beyond boundaries. Nope missing people, corpses and raped victims with NO consent, not even a teeny bit in those three cases.
