Overheard regarding BTK

[mapsedge]

Gotta love talk radio:

The fact of the matter is, serial killer or no, he's just like me.  He's just like you.  He's just like each of the callers.  He had a job.  He bought groceries.  He had a family, went to church, had Sunday dinner, watched TV, and listened to talk radio.  For all anyone knows, I'm a serial killer with a dozen notches in my lead pipe, and would the girl who rings up my gasoline know that to look at me? 
 
What really gets under folks' skin is the thought, "Jesus...that could be ME."  The denials fly, we hotly proclaim that we could NEVER do that, and should someone have the temerity to ask "Yeah, but haven't you ever said, 'Damn, I could just KILL that guy...'" we explode into a righteous rage and shout, "There's a big difference between saying it and doing it!"
 
Is there?  As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.  What we don't understand is that it's a reaaaaaaally short walk from soapboxing to hitting, from hitting to hurting, from hurting to harming, and from harming to killing."

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[eacole72.livejournal.com]

Something that is coming out from interviews with people who came into conflict with the gentleman accused of the BTK murders is that he had deep issues with needing to control any situation. I saw an interview with the man who used to be responsible for prosecuting offenses against city codes in Park City. He brought out the 80+ pages of documentation that the gentleman had created for a simple "dog not under control" complaint. Several hundered entries from a database, where the gentleman had taken down entries of "Dog out of yard from 09:35:42 to 09:41:50". Forms that were meant to be filed in single copies filed in duplicate and triplicate.

Whether or not the gentleman in question is guilty of the crimes of which he is accused, he very definitely was/is controlling. It is a much shorter step from deep-seated control issues to sociopathic behavior than it is for normal people to make the jump to commit murder.

(Or so says the person who admits she can load the 9mm pistol in her sleep and has publicly stated that should someone break into her home while she is there, they have declared their own life forfeit, because she values her own life far more than theirs.)