than man’s; and that is a good reason that less than ten percent of all prison inmates are women.”
“Or because they never got caught!” he added emphatically.
“You mean they never got caught because women are smarter then men, perhaps that’s another reason,” she added with the hint of a smile on her face.
Fred gave up on any further discussion. He looked at her and suddenly all his anger melted. Damn, I love her, he thought. He went over to her chair and gave her a long, loving kiss.
All was forgiven—even if he didn’t know what in hell she was talking about.
Chapter 21
Maureen was the psychologist in the family but Fred had extensively studied the personality profile of mass murders. He recognized that the major difference between a mass murderer and a serial killer was only a temporal one. Under that theory, the difference in the two lay solely in the time factor in which the killings are accomplished. Serial killers move from prey to prey, while mass murders accomplish the grisly task all at once. Often mass murderers have a deep hatred against society; almost half have had reported psychological problems prior to their rampage.
Fred was intimately familiar with the types of serial killers including the visionary type who often are psychotic. They hear voices in their heads telling them to commit the crimes. The missionary or religious type need to rid the world of those whom they consider unacceptable. The thrill oriented and the lust killers get their arousal from the suffering of their victims.
But mass murderers, on the other hand, are more often angry or humiliated people who develop a resentment of society over an extended time frame. During that period their resentment gradually grows, consummating due to an event that others might consider anticlimactic; but from their mental framework such an event magnifies the perception of life long failures. Most importantly, Fred recognized that mass murderers operate differently from classical murderers, who traditionally commit murder in reaction to an event or kill entirely for personal gain, either monetary or revenge.
Few of the standard mass murder profiles seemed to fit the murder at the bank, except for the fact that often a mass murderer kills people whom they have no personal relationship with. Mass murder victims are usually selected at random. And, in Fred’s mind, until he could discern differently, that certainly seemed to fit the bank case as well as theater killings. Fred also knew that characteristically, mass murderers do not experience a cooling off period. They simply move on from one killing to another. Fred was worried that might well be the trend followed by the theater killer since he was not close to being captured and most likely was secure in that fact. More troubling to Fred was the fact that mass murderers appear normal on the outside and are not easily detectable.
Chapter 22
Ford was extremely pleased with himself. Everything was working for him just as he had envisioned. Soon he could give up his hypnotism practice which he had grown to hate more and more each day.
In high school he had been considered an average student. Ford knew he could achieve much more, but it suited him perfectly to be perceived by his school officials as average. That way he would never be considered the architect of any crimes. In one such instance he had stolen thousands of dollars of equipment from the high school shop and subsequently sold them at a nice profit on E-bay. He had left subtle clues that pointed to another student who was innocent, but did not have a clue what was happening to him. The student, James Sullivan, was told if he provided the police with information as to where the missing equipment was, he could remain in school. When James indicated he had no idea what they were talking about, he was considered non-cooperative and tossed out of school.
Actually, Ford had hidden the equipment in an unused school
“Or because they never got caught!” he added emphatically.
“You mean they never got caught because women are smarter then men, perhaps that’s another reason,” she added with the hint of a smile on her face.
Fred gave up on any further discussion. He looked at her and suddenly all his anger melted. Damn, I love her, he thought. He went over to her chair and gave her a long, loving kiss.
All was forgiven—even if he didn’t know what in hell she was talking about.
Chapter 21
Maureen was the psychologist in the family but Fred had extensively studied the personality profile of mass murders. He recognized that the major difference between a mass murderer and a serial killer was only a temporal one. Under that theory, the difference in the two lay solely in the time factor in which the killings are accomplished. Serial killers move from prey to prey, while mass murders accomplish the grisly task all at once. Often mass murderers have a deep hatred against society; almost half have had reported psychological problems prior to their rampage.
Fred was intimately familiar with the types of serial killers including the visionary type who often are psychotic. They hear voices in their heads telling them to commit the crimes. The missionary or religious type need to rid the world of those whom they consider unacceptable. The thrill oriented and the lust killers get their arousal from the suffering of their victims.
But mass murderers, on the other hand, are more often angry or humiliated people who develop a resentment of society over an extended time frame. During that period their resentment gradually grows, consummating due to an event that others might consider anticlimactic; but from their mental framework such an event magnifies the perception of life long failures. Most importantly, Fred recognized that mass murderers operate differently from classical murderers, who traditionally commit murder in reaction to an event or kill entirely for personal gain, either monetary or revenge.
Few of the standard mass murder profiles seemed to fit the murder at the bank, except for the fact that often a mass murderer kills people whom they have no personal relationship with. Mass murder victims are usually selected at random. And, in Fred’s mind, until he could discern differently, that certainly seemed to fit the bank case as well as theater killings. Fred also knew that characteristically, mass murderers do not experience a cooling off period. They simply move on from one killing to another. Fred was worried that might well be the trend followed by the theater killer since he was not close to being captured and most likely was secure in that fact. More troubling to Fred was the fact that mass murderers appear normal on the outside and are not easily detectable.
Chapter 22
Ford was extremely pleased with himself. Everything was working for him just as he had envisioned. Soon he could give up his hypnotism practice which he had grown to hate more and more each day.
In high school he had been considered an average student. Ford knew he could achieve much more, but it suited him perfectly to be perceived by his school officials as average. That way he would never be considered the architect of any crimes. In one such instance he had stolen thousands of dollars of equipment from the high school shop and subsequently sold them at a nice profit on E-bay. He had left subtle clues that pointed to another student who was innocent, but did not have a clue what was happening to him. The student, James Sullivan, was told if he provided the police with information as to where the missing equipment was, he could remain in school. When James indicated he had no idea what they were talking about, he was considered non-cooperative and tossed out of school.
Actually, Ford had hidden the equipment in an unused school
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