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12. There's the huge unknown about whether or not the perpetrators are telling the truth.
Sun Jul 29, 2012, 06:29 PM
Jul 2012

You ask if understanding murderers' motives brings healing. Good question. As he neared his execution, Ted Bundy claimed that pornography made him into a serial killer. A lot of people think that he was lying about that. They think it was something he told his psychiatrist to get sympathy and attention. The guards in the prison said that he didn't even look at pornography. So maybe, probably, Ted Bundy was lying about why he killed, just one more game he was playing, one more way to manipulate people. Nothing whatsoever about that is healing.

Reading some of the posts at the Reddit link I got the same feeling. Some of those people are lying. Some of them are exaggerating. How can we tell which is genuine or not? Hard to find anything really valuable in this, imo.

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