A MANHUNT has been launched for a “serial killer” who filmed himself shooting a random victim and posted the footage on Facebook…
The victim was 74-year-old Robert Godwin, a father-of-nine, who was walking along a road in Ohio, USA.
Stephens, 37, can be heard saying on the broadcast on Sunday: “Finally found somebody I’m going to kill. I’m going to go kill this old dude.”
He then gets out of his car and walks towards the victim, who is holding a shopping bag.
Mr Godwin tries to shield himself before 6ft 1in Stephens lifts his gun and shoots him. It is believed the video was on Facebook for three hours before it was deleted…
Stephens, who worked as a mental health care manager, blamed the shooting on a woman, believed to be his former partner Joy Lane, and said that he would only stop if she or his mother called him.
I find this case interesting, as the woman has actually said the shooter is the nicest guy she knows. The shooter’s friends also said they are baffled, because they only knew him as an incredibly nice person.
These shootings are amygdala-breakdowns. The amygdala is the source of the rage and drive which produces such extreme behavior. I can’t help but wonder if this guy’s work in a mental health setting could possibly have exposed him to an infective agent which, like T. gondii, preferentially infects the amygdala. That would account for his inability to control his gambling of late, as well as his uncontrollable drive to act out in so illogical a fashion.
I am not making a case for lack of responsibility. This guy needs to be killed, quite obviously. But I do want to make the case that in general you need to stay away from the mentally ill, because it is not impossible that what is afflicting them is not some ephemeral weakness of will or genetic failure. It could be a contagious pathogen. The mind is a machine, and while in theory you can always control your behavior, if parts of the mind break down, it can be incredibly painful, and bordering on impossible to do.
Control your environment, control your destiny.
Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because your mind is your temple
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Charles Whitman’s open letter said that he felt uncontrollable violent impulses, and asked them to autopsy him when he was dead to figure out why he had these impulses. When they did, they found a massive tumor right up against his amygdala.
http://murderpedia.org/male.W/images/whitman_charles/docs/typewritten_letter.pdf
(I almost wrote Walt Whitman, which would make this a much funnier story.)
Yeah, I was thinking of him. Sad case, because he seemed like a great guy, and tough guy (Marine) who actually tried hard to fight the effect of a physical problem which I am guessing can’t be controlled if it happens to you. He seemed actually repulsed by it, and would never have done it otherwise, and he still couldn’t stop.
Why wouldn’t hunting be an effective outlet for this? Why couldn’t he pick up the gun and do everyone a favor by emptying out a crackhouse? Or better yet, certain *cough cough* black clad cockroaches who regularly spray innocent old women with mace *cough cough*. Why a 74 year old man that everyone likes?
Because the guy was an asshole, that’s why.
Evil is real, and those who embrace it know what to do.
You know who else worked in mental health, suddenly snapped, murdered a stranger? Justin Barkley, who on Dec. 8 shot a 52-year-old man in the Ithaca Walmart parking lot with a .30-.06 and then him over with his car. You may recall Barkley as the guy who told a judge he’d just killed President Elect Trump. Incredibly, this guy has been found competent to stand trial and should in August. What tales will he have to tell? Was he programmed to kill via his associations with disturbed people? Does our government use such associations to create unwitting useful idiot assassins, with the occasional collateral damage of some going off in unintended ways? The other interesting thing about Stephens is that in his online rant he also blamed gambling losses at CLE area casinos. Hard to come up with more controlled, controlling, and triggering locales than casinos.
The gambling could also be an early sign of amygdala dysfunction, ie poor relevance weighing and threat/consequence measuring.
It would be interesting if there is some pathogen out there practicing infecting humans and creating a human version of rabies. Oh what an Apocalypse that would be!
A pharma rep who once sold Haldol to psychiatrists told me that all the shrinks were crazy. “It’s like a contest between the insane and the doc, and eventually the former wins. Every single time.”
While I consider insanity much more like a behavioral aberration (because in most cases no somatic anomaly is found), this still makes me wonder if crazy people are infectious.