http://www.republicanherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19416241&BRD=2626&PAG=461&dept_id=529074&rfi=6
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Scott Thornsley, an associate professor of criminal justice at Mansfield University and a national media commentator on violent crime and criminal behavior, said the alleged killer may have been out of control during the time the crime was committed, but attempted to regain that control afterward.
I would expect that his actions surprised even himself, Thornsley said by telephone. Its my theory that something triggered him into a rage and when he sobered up, he probably just did not know what to do with the bodies, so he attempted to control the situation by, in a sense, doing nothing and keeping them within his comfort zone.
Thornsley, who has been consulted in several national high-profile investigations such as the Green River killings, the Scott and Laci Peterson murder case and the Washington, D.C., sniper cases, said the fact that Nickles account of the murders changed so often in his confession to police is damaging.
If he had said he had a blackout and he didnt know what happened, that would be one thing almost an alibi of sorts but when his story starts to change so often, that begins to hold less and less water; it starts to throw up some huge red flags, Thornsley said.
For every passing hour that he lives with what happened, with those bodies in his basement, and fails to do something, to alert police about what happened and tell them that he simply got drunk, then woke up and found two people dead on his floor, well, he loses that credibility of mitigating circumstances, Thornsley said.
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