Originally posted by cking
not all serial killers are insane.
This is a good point. And one many overlook. I think that people tend to lump insane actions with insane people, but there is what they call "criminal intelligence." Many of these people (animals actually) are sane people who do things like this for their own set of reasons and then use their intelligence to legitimize their actions and in doing so, wind up creating the morbid fascination we have with serial killers (as well as sympathy in some cases.) And let's admit it, some of these criminal investigators wet themselves over these types because they have a front row seat to what makes them tick.
Here again, this is an isolated incident with some nutbag father, not a serial killer so to equate the 2 is wrong. But cking is right that some of these people employ a shocking amount of intelligence to the point that it's unbelievable. And this is what makes us ask ourselves how seemingly normal people can do shit like this, in light of that intelligence. That's always the big mystery.