<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32313972</id><updated>2011-10-06T10:34:22.249-03:00</updated><title type='text'>The Crime Philosopher</title><subtitle type='html'>A young psychologist's bilingual journey through the world of crime and criminology, serial killing and psychopathy in the 21st century.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Young Dr. M</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SoVCSyMAkxo/S2ccD2JE_gI/AAAAAAAAAAM/HsDaoUzgeOs/S220/freud2.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>12</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32313972.post-116612018049515032</id><published>2006-12-14T16:11:00.000-02:00</published><updated>2006-12-14T16:16:20.513-02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Organized and Disorganized Killer * O Assassino Organizado e Desorganizado</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Science and its development is a result of a necessity for knowledge. It is very likely that sexual, serial offenders have always existed, and we even have evidence of that. But one thing is certain: they are essentially a modern phenomena. We have never seen so many of them and they have never before represented such a serious risk to society. Science grows along with the problem; the escalating number of sexual murderers stimulated the development of criminology and the method of profiling – that means using the knowledge derived from psychiatry and psychology to come up with psychological profiles of a murderer – and that knowledge is used to get to the killer faster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The USA were the first to develop profiling methods in order to catch sexual predators. The term “serial killer” was actually first mentioned in the 60’s by Robert Ressler, a famous american profiler and criminologist for the FBI. There’s a pretty simple explanation for all this: the excellence with which americans have contributed to science, and above all else the incredible number of serial and sexual killers they have in their midst, a number higher than anywhere else in the world. A book Ressler wrote along with Burgess and Douglas is considered one of the bibles of criminal profiling – for those who want to know further the book is called “Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives”. In this book the authors bring up a topic which I consider to be very important to understand a killer’s behavior: the aspect of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;organization&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;disorganization&lt;/span&gt; of the criminal. This is what I’m going to discuss here next. You’ll notice how the sexual killer tends to fit in one of these two categories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;O avanço da ciencia é resultado de uma demanda de conhecimento. É bem possível que os criminosos sexuais e seriais sempre tenham existido, mas um fato é inegável: eles são um fenômeno essencialmente moderno, nunca se viu tantos deles, nunca foram um problema tão frequente e tão sério. Junto com o problema cresce a ciência; junto com os assassinos sexuais e seriais cresceu a criminologia e o método de &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;profiling&lt;/span&gt;, ou seja, o uso dos conhecimentos psicológicos e psiquiátricos para se traçar o perfil psicológico de um assassino – e com isso obter mais êxito na captura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os EUA são pioneiros nos métodos de &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;profiling&lt;/span&gt; (o traçar de perfis) . O termo “serial killer”, ou assassino em série, foi mencionado pela primeira vez na década de 60 por Robert Ressler, um famoso criminologista e &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;profiler&lt;/span&gt; do FBI. Há uma razão clara para isso: além da excelência cietífica que os EUA mostram para o mundo, ninguém tem uma demanda maior do que eles, quando se trata de assassinos em série. Uma das bíblias da ciência do &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;profile&lt;/span&gt; foi escrita por Ressler, Burgess e Douglas – para quem se interessar, esse livro se chama “Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives”.  Nesse livro, os autores discutem um tema que considero essencial para se começar a entender as atitudes de um assassino à solta: o quesito &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;organização&lt;/span&gt; e &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;desorganização&lt;/span&gt; do criminoso. E é isso que eu vou discutir aqui agora. Vocês verão como esse tipo de criminoso costuma se encaixar em uma dessas duas categorias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32313972-116612018049515032?l=thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/feeds/116612018049515032/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32313972&amp;postID=116612018049515032' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/116612018049515032'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/116612018049515032'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/12/organized-and-disorganized-killer-o.html' title='The Organized and Disorganized Killer * O Assassino Organizado e Desorganizado'/><author><name>Young Dr. M</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SoVCSyMAkxo/S2ccD2JE_gI/AAAAAAAAAAM/HsDaoUzgeOs/S220/freud2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32313972.post-116111513769341670</id><published>2006-10-17T16:50:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2006-10-17T16:58:57.700-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Friedenbach + Caffé * Case Study * Estudo de Caso</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/809/3530/1600/mortos.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/809/3530/320/mortos.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Liana Friedenbach, 16, and Felipe Caffé, 19, met in 2003 in a traditional, private school in Sao Paulo. She comes from a wealthy, respected jewish family, active in the jewish community. A young, pretty girl, on her way to finishing high school, with tons of friends and love. He comes from a simple, humble family, which wouldn’t normally have the means to put their son through such an expensive high school. But he was a good student, respectful, dedicated, characteristics which granted him a scholarship on this high class school, where he met Liana, where they fell in love, where they started exchanging little notes filled with little hearts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their blossoming relationship was known and approved by both their families. In what seemed to be a natural desire to be alone together, with more intimacy and time, the couple decided to go away for the weekend on a camping trip. In order to escape their parents’ watchful eyes, Felipe told his family he would be camping with some friends, in a place he had already gone once before – what they didn’t know was that he was going with Liana. Liana told her family she was going on a weekend trip with some friends from the jewish community to Ilhabela, an island on the coast of Sao Paulo famous for its beauty and nightlife.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And there they went. On a Friday night, october 31st 2003, they spent the night together in Sao Paulo, and caught an early bus to Embu-Guaçu, close to the spot where they chose to set camp. Their tent was barely up and already they were seen by a local 16 year old boy only known as “Champinha”, a poor boy, violent and used to violence – he was around by chance, hunting in the wooded area with a guy known as “Pernambuco”. Pernambuco worked as a caretaker and already had trouble with the law, as had Champinha. As soon as Champinha saw Liana, he said to Pernambuco that the girl was “hot”, and with that, the attack began.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They approached the teenage couple armed and took them to a run down house which was owned by another local man, called Reginaldo. On their way there, Liana pleaded for them not to hurt her and her boyfriend, saying she had money and that her family would give them anything for their safe return. The terrified couple soon realised what was the kidnappers’ intentions, or better, Champinha’s intentions, since he was the mentor of the crime from the start. Liana was repeatedly raped by Champinha, Pernambuco and Reginaldo. Some of these awful rape sessions were witnessed by Felipe who, according to the kidnappers, “lost his voice from so much screaming and crying”. On that Sunday morning, after a whole day of fear and torture, the couple was taken to the nearby woods where Felipe was executed with a single shot on the back of the head. Liana didn’t watch her boyfriend die, but heard the shot and immediately entered an absolute state of shock. She wouldn’t say anything else anymore, or even react to her abuse, she would just cry and cry. And like that, she was taken back to that awful little house to resume her sessions of torture and sexual abuse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On that same Sunday the couple’s parents realised something was terribly wrong – they hadn’t heard from their children. A few phonecalls later, they put the lie their kids told them together and a huge police search began for the two teenagers, organized by Liana’s father, a lawyer called Ari Friedenbach. It wasn’t hard to figure out where they might be, since Felipe had already gone camping on the same area before. The repercussion began, and the kidnappers started feeling uneasy. It is known that Champinha’s brother went to the place they were to warn him that his mother wanted him home because of all the police in the area. Champinha told his brother he was there with his girlfriend, and that he still had to see her to her bus back home. On Wednesday, novermber 5th, after five days of their kidnapping, Liana was taken to that same wooded area where her boyfriend’s body laid. There, Champinha commited the final act, and Liana was murdered by stabbing and blunt force trauma to her head. Her body was found a few days later, along with Felipe’s, to the horror of their parents and of an entire country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Liana Friedenbach, 16 anos, e Felipe Caffé, 19, se conheceram em 2003 no Colégio São Luiz - uma escola particular tradicional de São Paulo. Ela vem de uma família rica e bem posicionada, judia e ativa na comunidade judaica. Uma mocinha bonita, novinha, fazendo o colegial, cheia de amigos. Ele veio de uma família mais humilde, que normalmente não teria condições de pagar para o filho um colégio tão caro. Mas ele era bom aluno, estudioso, ganhou uma bolsa e passou a estudar nesse lugar de alto nível, onde conheceu Liana, com quem começou a namorar e a trocar bilhetinhos cheios de coração.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O namoro era conhecido e, ao que parece, aprovado por ambas as famílias. Numa aparente ânsia de estarem sozinhos, com mais intimidade e por mais tempo, resolveram passar um fim de semana acampando, só os dois. Para burlar o olhar cuidadoso da família, Felipe disse aos pais que iria acampar com uns amigos, num local onde ele já havia acampado anteriormente – o que nao sabiam é que seria somente com Liana. Já Liana, disse aos pais que iria viajar com algumas amigas da comunidade judaica para Ilhabela – uma ilha do litoral paulista cheia de jovens e diversão.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E lá se foram os dois. Passaram a noite da sexta feira, 31 de outubro de 2003, perambulando pela Avenida Paulista, e sábado cedo tomaram o ônibus para a região de Embu-Guaçu, local onde pretendiam acampar pelo fim de semana. Mal montaram a barraca já foram avistados por um garoto de 16 anos, morador da região, pobre, acostumado com violência. Conhecido nas redondezas como “Champinha”, estava ali por acaso, caçando tatus com o “Pernambuco”, um caseiro da região com várias passagens pela polícia. Ao avistar Liana, Champinha comentou ao companheiro que aquela menina era “muito gostosa”, e com isso e não muito mais, os dois partiram para o ataque.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Renderam os dois adolescentes e os levaram para um sítio praticamente abandonado ali perto, que estava sob os cuidados de um outro colega deles, Reginaldo. No caminho, Liana disse que tinha dinheiro, que eles não os machucassem. O casal apavorado foi levado a um casebre, e lá perceberam as reais intenções de Champinha, o líder e mentor do crime. Liana foi repetidamente violentada por Champinha, Pernambuco e Reginaldo. Algumas dessas sessões de estupro foram presenciadas por seu namorado, Felipe, que segundo os criminosos “perdeu a voz de tanto chorar e gritar”. No domingo pela manhã, após um dia inteiro de todo o tipo de tortura, os dois foram levados a um matagal onde Felipe foi executado com um tiro na nuca. Liana não assistiu à morte do namorado, mas ouviu o tiro e a partir de então entrou em estado de choque. Não falava mais, não reagia, só chorava. E assim foi levada de volta ao cativeiro, de volta às sessões de abuso e violência.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No domingo mesmo os pais do casal começaram a desconfiar de que algo estava errado. Não tinham notícia dos filhos. Alguns telefonemas depois, acabaram descobrindo a mentira contada pelos filhos e uma busca frenética iniciou-se, organizada pelo pai de Liana, o advogado Ari Friedenbach. Não foi difícil concluir em que região estariam, já que Felipe já havia acampado naquele mesmo lugar anteriormente. A repercussão começou, e os criminosos ficaram preocupados. Um irmão de Champinha foi avisá-lo que sua mãe queria que ele voltasse para casa, pois estava preocupada com a quantidade de policiais na região. Champinha disse ao irmão que Liana era sua namorada, e que tinha de acompanhá-la de volta à rodoviária. Na quarta feira dia 5 de novembro, após cinco dias de cativeiro, Champinha pessoalmente levou Liana a uma região erma muito próxima de onde jazia o corpo de seu namorado. Lá, cometeu o ato final, assassinando Liana com facadas e porretadas na cabeça. Seu corpo foi encontrado dias depois, assim como o de Felipe, para o desespero de seus pais, e para o terror de uma nação.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32313972-116111513769341670?l=thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/feeds/116111513769341670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32313972&amp;postID=116111513769341670' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/116111513769341670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/116111513769341670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/10/friedenbach-caff-case-study-estudo-de_17.html' title='Friedenbach + Caffé * Case Study * Estudo de Caso'/><author><name>Young Dr. M</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SoVCSyMAkxo/S2ccD2JE_gI/AAAAAAAAAAM/HsDaoUzgeOs/S220/freud2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32313972.post-115989503647897836</id><published>2006-10-03T13:56:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2006-10-03T14:03:56.553-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Update</title><content type='html'>I've been working on a story and an analisys concerning the matter of sexual abuse in violent crimes. It will be ready by the end of the week, so keep your eyes open! In it, I will discuss a shocking double murder case that happened in Sao Paulo 4 years ago. For those who want to know more about that case before I post it here, the victims are called Liana Friedenbach and Felipe Caffé.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tenho trabalhado em uma história e uma análise da questão do abuso sexual em crimes violentos. Estará pronta até o final da semana, portanto fiquem atentos! Nesse post irei usar como exemplo o caso de Liana Friedenbach e Felipe Caffé, vítimas de um terrível assassinato cometido 4 anos atrás - quem quiser já pode se informar um pouco sobre este caso antes da minha discussão.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32313972-115989503647897836?l=thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/feeds/115989503647897836/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32313972&amp;postID=115989503647897836' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115989503647897836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115989503647897836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/10/update.html' title='Update'/><author><name>Young Dr. M</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SoVCSyMAkxo/S2ccD2JE_gI/AAAAAAAAAAM/HsDaoUzgeOs/S220/freud2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32313972.post-115810591119878675</id><published>2006-09-12T20:57:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2006-09-13T00:50:53.180-03:00</updated><title type='text'>The Richthofen Case * Part Three * Parte Três</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/809/3530/1600/img_fotog2_349.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/809/3530/320/img_fotog2_349.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Daniel and Christian Cravinhos are the two boys who actually killed Manfred and Marísia Von Richthofen on november 1st, 2002. Although they comitted the physical act, they were doing it with the permission of the couple’s oldest daughter, Suzane, who was present at the scene of the crime. In my previous post I expressed my opinion that Suzane was the one who acted as a leader in this crime – which raises a whole lot of other issues. If Suzane is the leader of this pack, if she was the one who had the power to influence the others to commit such an act, why didn’t she killed them herself? If she was the real carrier of such homicidal hate, why not her? And how could she convince two apparently normal, healthy young men to do the killings for her, enough to have them plan the murders with her, months in advance?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To me it is clear that Suzane slowly started poisoning Daniel against her parents. It is very unlikely that Daniel could have influenced Suzane, convincing her that her parents should be killed. I base this conclusion on a simple fact: Suzane’s parents only existed in Daniel’s life &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;because of Suzane and through Suzane&lt;/span&gt;. An example will make my point clearer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s suppose that a married patient of mine comes to me in a session and says, “my husband doesn’t like you. He thinks I’m becoming more and more aggressive since I started therapy, he says he wants to come here one day to tell you his side of the story”. But I don’t know the husband. I could even one day by accident bump into the two of them in the street, I could be polite and say hello, but that would be pretty much the contact my patient’s husband would have with me. Even more important than the fact that I don’t know this man, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;this man doesn’t know me&lt;/span&gt;. He’s not my patient, he has no direct contact with me, he really doesn’t know how I behave in my life and in my work. If he resents me, his wife must have something to do with it, she’s the link between us. To him I only exist &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;through her&lt;/span&gt;. Obviously I’m not saying that it is on purpose. Husbands and wives have conflicts, and my patient may use our conversations in the office with less than constructive purposes. Probably when they argue she says, “but my therapist said &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;this&lt;/span&gt;. You are wrong, you don’t know anything. My therapist said so”. Of course this man is going to resent me. But I didn’t tell his wife to pick a fight with him, I didn’t tell her to do anything. What is done with the knowledge that we produce is up to the person.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, if my patient painted a different picture for her husband, one that shows that I’m not for neither against any of them, he certainly wouldn’t resent me like this – he could see in me someone who’s trying to help him and his wife to get along better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s just something I came up with, but this sort of thing happens all the time in the therapist’s office. Back to our case. Manfred and Marísia said to their daughter she was no longer allowed to see Daniel; they said this to her, not to him. Their fights on the subject were frequent in their home, when Daniel was not present. After those she would go tell Daniel, in her own way. If she didn’t want Daniel to be angry with her parents, she would definitely be careful with what she told him, she could even hold out certain parts not to upset him. And that’s what I mean when I say that Daniel’s contact with the Richthofen couple happened mainly &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;through Suzane&lt;/span&gt;. Daniel only knew about the conflicts they had &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;through Suzane&lt;/span&gt;, and his image of the couple was built through what Suzane &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;told&lt;/span&gt; him, not through what he actually &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;witnessed&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is enough to establish Suzane’s manipulative behavior. Why bring the boys into this? Well, she didn’t want to actually &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;kill&lt;/span&gt; her parents, the act in itself wouldn’t ammount to any pleasure or gain. She just wanted to get permanently rid of them, but if she could find someone else to do the dirty work… even better. Daniel was in love with Suzane, we know that. But there’s no love in the world to make most of us do what he did. Daniel and his brother Christian definitely had a delinquent, psychopathic personality before they even met Suzane – and Suzane, let me put it this way, brought out the worst in them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christian strikes me as a typical delinquent, a petty thief, who cares very little about pretty much everything, a guy that agrees to kill some kid’s parents for a new motorcicle. He’s the older brother and probably was protective of Daniel, wanted to help him, wouldn’t let him get into this alone. After their arrest this tendency of Christian’s became clear – Daniel was always crying endlessly, swollen, abandoned, desperate beyond control. And Christian, always with his arm around him, facing everybody, facing a country’s rage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what about Daniel? In my point of view, the most manipulated of them all. The only one who seemed to get slightly in touch with the enormity of what he had done. Today he goes on acting ashamed, with his head always down. He cries and shows remorse for what he has done to his parents, to his life. We know that Daniel was the one who killed Manfred, while Christian attacked Marísia. Chrsitian doesn’t care, he killed the woman. Daniel tried to be less of a coward, he was there to confront the tirant father and defend his girlfriend. Probably in his damaged conscience he felt it was a fair battle. Of course it wasn’t. It is not fair to attack anyone with that kind of violence, much less a sleeping man. He realised that afterwards, as he covered Manfred’s disfigured face with a towel – the sign of shame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniel e Christian Cravinhos são os rapazes que efetivamente mataram Manfred e Marísia Von Richthofen, no dia 1 de novembro de 2002, com a conivência da filha do casal, Suzane. Foram eles que cometeram o ato físico, enquanto Suzane esperava no andar de baixo da casa onde a família morava. No meu post anterior, expressei a minha opinião de que Suzane representou o papel de líder nesses assassinatos – isso pode parecer estranho, e levanta muitas questões importantes. Se Suzane era a líder e idealizadora, por que não foi ela que subiu as escadas naquela noite terrível e desferiu os golpes fatais contra seus pais? Já que era ela a portadora desse ódio homicida, por que não ela? E mais ainda, se isso é assim, como Suzane pode ter convencido dois rapazes aparentemente saudáveis a cometer tal ato de loucura, de agressão, simultaneamente, sem aparente questionamento, com meses de planejamento?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suzane devagar envenenou Daniel contra seus pais. É altamente improvável que Daniel tivesse influenciado Suzane, convencendo-a da necessidade de matar seus pais. Extraio essa conclusão do seguinte fato: os pais de Suzane só existiam na vida de Daniel &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;por causa de Suzane e através de Suzane&lt;/span&gt;. Um exemplo deixará meu ponto mais claro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vamos supor que uma paciente minha, casada, chegue para mim em uma sessão e diga, “meu marido não gosta de você. Ele acha que desde que eu comecei a fazer terapia com você, estou mais agressiva. Ele diz que um dia virá aqui para falar com você, ele quer contar a versão dele”. Eu não conheço esse marido. Posso até por acaso um dia vê-lo na rua com ela, posso até ser cortês e cumprimentá-los, mas este é o máximo de contato que este homem terá comigo, um contato muito estrito. Mais importante do que o fato de eu não conhecer este homem é o fato de que &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;este homem não me conhece&lt;/span&gt;. Ele não é meu paciente, não tem contato comigo, não sabe efetivamente como me comporto e trabalho. Se ele tem raiva de mim, com certeza minha paciente tem algo a ver com isso, porque para ele eu só existo &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;através dela&lt;/span&gt;. Claro que não estou dizendo que é de propósito. Maridos e mulheres têm conflitos, e minha paciente pode usar o conhecimento que nossas conversas produz com uma intenção não muito produtiva. Provavelmente quando eles discutem ela diz, “mas minha psicóloga falou &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;isso&lt;/span&gt;. Você está errado. Você não sabe de nada. Minha psicóloga que disse”. Óbvio que esse homem vai ficar com raiva de mim. Mas eu não mandei a mulher dele brigar com ele, aliás eu não mandei nada. O que vai ser feito com o que é conversado depende da pessoa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Portanto, se minha paciente pintasse para seu marido um quadro diferente, que mostra que eu não estou nem contra e nem a favor de ninguém, ele certamente não teria raiva de mim – poderia ver em mim alguém que pode ajudá-lo a se entender melhor com a mulher.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esse exemplo é hipotético, mas esse tipo de coisa acontece frequentemente no consultório. Pois então. Manfred e Marísia proibiram Suzane de ver Daniel, e não fizeram isso na frente dele. Pegaram a filha e conversaram &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;com ela&lt;/span&gt; – essas brigas eram muito frequentes na casa dos Richthofen e Daniel não estava presente quando aconteciam. Daí ela foi contar, do jeito dela. Se ela não quisesse que Daniel ficasse morto de raiva dos pais dela, tomaria certos cuidados. Esconderia dele as piores partes da conversa, sei lá. É isso que quero dizer quando mostro que o contato que Daniel tinha com Marísia e Manfred vinha principalmente &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;através&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;de Suzane&lt;/span&gt;. Daniel só sabia dos conflitos que tinham através do que ela lhe contava, e sua imagem dos dois foi sendo montada através da &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;fala&lt;/span&gt; de Suzane, não através do que efetivamente &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;via&lt;/span&gt; acontecer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Só isso já começa a revelar o caráter manipulador de Suzane. Por que envolver os meninos? Bem, ela não queria efetivamente &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;matar&lt;/span&gt; seus pais, o ato em si não trazia nenhum prazer ou benefício por si só. Ela queria ficar livre deles, e se pudesse arrumar outra pessoa para fazer o trabalho sujo… melhor. Daniel estava apaixonado por Suzane, isso é fato conhecido. Mas não há paixão no mundo que faça a maior parte de nós cometer um assassinato assim. Daniel e Christian Cravinhos definitivamente tinham uma personalidade delinquente e psicopática muito antes de conhecerem Suzane – e Suzane, digamos assim, estimulou o que havia de pior neles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christian me parece um típico deliquente, um bandidinho, que se importa pouco com todas as coisas, que topa ajudar o irmão a porretear os pais da namorada por uma moto nova. É o irmão mais velho, e provavelmente tinha sentimentos de proteção com o irmão mais novo, quis ajudá-lo, não permitiu que entrasse nessa sozinho. Depois da prisão dos dois, ficou fácil ver o comportamento protetor de Christian em relação a seu irmão – Daniel sempre chorava copiosamente, inchado, vermelho, desamparado, desesperado. Christian sempre com o braço em volta, apoiando, enfrentando a raiva do país.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E Daniel? Na minha opinião, o mais manipulado. O único que pareceu entrar levemente em contato com a gravidade de seus atos. Hoje age com vergonha, de cabeça baixa diante de todos. Chora e sente remorso pelo que fez, com seus pais, com sua vida. Sabemos que Daniel matou Manfred, e Christian Marísia. Christian não está nem aí, matou a mulher. Daniel tentou ser menos covarde, foi enfrentar o pai tirano e terrível da namorada, defendê-la, provavelmente sentia na sua consciência doente ser uma batalha de igual para igual. Claro que não era. Não é de igual para igual enterrar uma barra de ferro na cabeça de um homem inofensivo que dorme. Ele percebeu isso depois do ato, e cobriu o rosto assassinado e desfigurado de Manfred com uma toalha – o sinal da vergonha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32313972-115810591119878675?l=thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/feeds/115810591119878675/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32313972&amp;postID=115810591119878675' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115810591119878675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115810591119878675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/09/richthofen-case-part-three-parte-trs.html' title='The Richthofen Case * Part Three * Parte Três'/><author><name>Young Dr. M</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SoVCSyMAkxo/S2ccD2JE_gI/AAAAAAAAAAM/HsDaoUzgeOs/S220/freud2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32313972.post-115688188324633485</id><published>2006-08-29T16:46:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2006-08-29T20:23:53.536-03:00</updated><title type='text'>The Richthofen Case * Part Two * Parte Dois</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/809/3530/1600/2marcus17bw.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/809/3530/320/2marcus17bw.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A crime that involves more than one culprit tends to present certain problems. When only one person has commited a crime, we know that person did &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;everything&lt;/span&gt;, including the planning and execution of the murder. This is an aspect that has raised much debate in the Richthofen case, where the planning and execution on the crime was divided among three people. Suzane Von Richthofen’s parents were murdered and she seems to be the mentor; but her boyfriend Daniel Cravinhos and his brother Christian were the ones who actually commited the physical act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suzane and Daniel were together for a while when all of this happened. Suzane’s parents knew him, had frequent contact with him, it is known that they even went on vacations together. Apparently problems began when Manfred and Marísia found out their daughter was smoking pot with her boyfriend. Panic. Suzane was no more allowed to see Daniel. They were very strict, Suzane would later say. Fights and constant yelling began and were soon happening on a daily basis; the punishments and curfews too. It soon became unbearable for Suzane to cope with the frustration of not being able to do whatever she wanted, and the double murder began to be planned in her head, before anything, as a consequence of her hate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not at all uncommon, if we look all over the world, to see stories of children that murder their parents. The opposite happens frequently too. These types of crimes are the pathological manifestation of something we all have: hate, including for the people we love. When my dad used to say to me, you can go out, but you have to be back by midnight, of course I’d get angry. We all had friends without curfews, friends who can stay out until whenever. And when I got back at 2 am instead of midnight, of course my dad felt angry too. Damnit, I have to sit here and worry about this disobedient daughter of mine. But our hate never destroyed our love. As much as we felt angry we didn’t &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;act out&lt;/span&gt; on that anger – as much as in any human being, the homicidal hate exists and is very real, but we’re able to neutralize it, to control it, and our love is usually able to win the fight for as long as we don’t destroy our relationship with our hate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It really takes a lot of love to hold back a person with a lot of hate – specially if this person doesn’t have the natural social restraints of the healthy human being, that profound disrespect for what’s right and wrong like I said in a previous post about the anti-social personality. A curious thing about all this is that, among the three killers, Suzane was &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;the most affected&lt;/span&gt; by this crime, and with that she made it clear what her real motivations were: her own interests. And no one else’s. These parents get in my way? Off with them. Many people are going to suffer with this act of mine, our friends, the people we know and love, our family, my brother Andreas, who’s only 15 years old and will lose his parents, just like me, in the most violent and shocking way. What can I do. This that I’m doing will be a favor for Andreas too. We’ll have money, he won’t miss anything, it won’t make much difference. And he’ll also be free. At some point, everybody will forget about this and I’ll be here enjoying my life, doing whatever I want. No more limits, no more control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s easy to see that a person like this has no real grasp on the impact of her acts. Manfred and Marísia were &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Suzane’s&lt;/span&gt; parents, and her parents were the victims chosen for this crime. It wasn’t the boys’ parents, who watched horrified their only two sons turn into the most despised people in all Brazil. It was the parents of that girl who climbed up the stairs to her home late at night, all alone, to make sure that Manfred and Marísia were fast asleep, harmless and unaware. Before going back down and clearing the way for her parents’ killers, she turned on the upstairs corridor light so that they could see where they were going. So they could be more competent in their act. And while two guys were smashing her parents’ head in the second floor, she was quietly sitting downstairs, listening to two people’s last moments of horror.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But not without checking on them first, let’s not forget. She hardly thought of anything else other than if her parents were &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;in interesting conditions&lt;/span&gt; for her to do what &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;she &lt;/span&gt;wanted to do next, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;against their will and without their knowledge&lt;/span&gt;, and against the will of her community, of the law and of the world where she lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that’s a perfect psychopath.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Suzane’s dominating strength seems to be the central aspect of this case. Later, we will discuss her interaction with the Cravinhos brothers, their part in this story and their possible personalities).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um crime que envolve mais de uma pessoa apresenta certos problemas. Quando uma só pessoa é responsável, sabemos que ela &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;fez tudo&lt;/span&gt;, planejou e executou. Essa questão levantou muito debate no caso Richthofen, onde o planejamento e a execução do crime foram tarefas divididas entre três pessoas. Os pais de Suzane Von Richthofen foram assassinados e ela parece ser a mentora. Mas o namorado Daniel Cravinhos e seu irmão Christian foram os fisicamente responsáveis pelos assassinatos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suzane e Daniel eram namorados já há algum tempo. Os pais de Suzane o conheciam, conviviam com ele e até viajaram juntos. Aparentemente os problemas começaram quando Manfred e Marísia descobriram que a filha e o namorado estavam fumando maconha. Desespero. Proibiram a filha de ver o menino. Eram muito rígidos, Suzane mais tarde diria. As gritarias e proibições se tornavam cada vez mais constantes; os castigos e punições também. A frustração de não poder fazer o que queria claramente ficou insuportável para Suzane, e o crime começou a ser planejado na cabeça dela, em decorrência do seu ódio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Casos de filhos que matam seus pais não são tão incomuns se olharmos para o mundo. O contrário também vale. Esses crimes são a manifestação patológica de algo que todos nós temos: ódio, inclusive pelas pessoas que amamos. Quando meu pai me dizia, você pode sair, mas tem que estar de volta à meia noite é claro que eu ficava com raiva. Sempre temos amigos sem toque de recolher, que podem ficar na rua até mais tarde. E quando eu voltava às 2 horas ao invés de meia noite é claro que meu pai ficava com raiva. Caramba, tenho que ficar aqui preocupado com essa filha desobediente. Mas o nosso ódio nunca destruiu nosso amor. Podíamos ficar com raiva mas não &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;atuávamos&lt;/span&gt; essa raiva – como em qualquer ser humano normal, o ódio homicida existe, mas somos capazes de neutralizá-lo, ter algum controle sobre ele, e como temos amor além de ódio, o amor costuma vencer e o ódio não consegue destruí-lo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Realmente, só o amor é muito pouco para segurar alguém que tem muito ódio – e que não tem as travas sociais naturais do ser humano saudável, aquele profundo desprezo pelas regras que mencionei no meu texto sobre a personalidade anti-social. O detalhe mais curioso disso tudo é que, considerando-se os três responsáveis por este crime, Suzane obviamente é &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a mais afetada&lt;/span&gt; e com isso deixou clara a sua verdadeira motivação: seus próprios interesses. E os de mais ninguém. Esses pais me atrapalham? Pau neles. Literalmente. Muita gente vai sofrer com essas mortes, minha família, meus amigos, nossos conhecidos, meu irmão Andreas, de 15 anos, que como eu, perderá os pais dessa maneira tão violenta e súbita. Paciência. Isso que eu vou fazer é um favor ao Andreas. Vamos ter dinheiro, não vai faltar nada para ele, não vai fazer muita diferença. E ele também vai ficar livre. Uma hora vai passar, todo mundo vai se conformar e esquecer, e eu vou estar aí, numa boa, com meu namorado e com o dinheiro dos meus pais, para fazer o que a gente quiser. Não à proibição, não ao controle, não à coleira.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dá para ver que essa pessoa não tem noção nenhuma do impacto de seus atos. Manfred e Marísia eram os pais &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;de Suzane&lt;/span&gt;, e seus pais foram as vítimas escolhidas para este crime. Não foram os pais dos meninos, que acompanharam envergonhados e cabisbaixos seus dois únicos filhos serem arregaçados pelo Brasil inteiro. Foram os pais daquela moça que antes do crime subiu as escadas de sua casa, sozinha, para se certificar de que Manfred e Marísia se encontravam ali, dormindo e inofensivos. Antes de descer e dar o ok aos assassinos de seus pais, ela acendeu a luz do corredor para facilitar sua tarefa. E por fim ficou sentadinha no andar de baixo, ouvindo os últimos agonizantes momentos de seus pais, sendo mortos à golpes de barra de ferro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas antes de tudo Suzane subiu para dar uma olhada neles, não podemos nos esquecer. Dificilmente pensou em qualquer outra coisa a não ser se seus pais estavam em &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;condições interessantes&lt;/span&gt; para o que &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ela&lt;/span&gt; gostaria de fazer em seguida, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;contra sua vontade e sem seu conhecimento&lt;/span&gt;, e contra a vontade da comunidade, da lei e do mundo onde ela vive e que a acolhe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eis a perfeita psicopata.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(A força dominadora de Suzane me parece a linha central deste caso. Em seguida, vamos pensar sobre a interação de Suzane com os irmãos Cravinhos, seus papéis nesse crime e o que podemos concluir a respeito da personalidade de cada um).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32313972-115688188324633485?l=thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/feeds/115688188324633485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32313972&amp;postID=115688188324633485' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115688188324633485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115688188324633485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/08/richthofen-case-part-two-parte-dois.html' title='The Richthofen Case * Part Two * Parte Dois'/><author><name>Young Dr. M</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SoVCSyMAkxo/S2ccD2JE_gI/AAAAAAAAAAM/HsDaoUzgeOs/S220/freud2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32313972.post-115636240192355775</id><published>2006-08-23T16:38:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2006-08-23T16:46:41.936-03:00</updated><title type='text'>The Richthofen Case * Case Study * Estudo de Caso</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/809/3530/1600/sr.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/809/3530/320/sr.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It’s the kind of thing you hear about in the newspaper right when you wake up, cause everybody’s talking about it. This is how it was for the city of Sao Paulo with the Richthofen murder case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sao Paulo is the third largest city in the world. It’s only behind Tokyo and New York in size and population. It is by far the largest city in Brazil. Crowded, traffic is hell, but it has its charms. Nowhere in the world you eat as well as one does here. There are millionaires and miserable people. A city of contrasts. The richest nightlife, unlike nowhere else again. At Avenida Paulista, the heart of Sao Paulo’s huge financial center, people in suits cross the streets side by side with punks, with kids, with whites blacks and asians. There’s plenty of violence too, robberies, kidnappings, Primeiro Comando da Capital. We’re used to hearing about that all the time. A story like the Richthofen case, on the other hand, is very rare. It shocked the whole country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On November 1st, 2002, Sao Paulo woke up with the news that the night before, a well-to-do couple from an upclass neighborhood had been murdered in their sleep. Manfred and Marisia Von Richtofen were found severely beaten, dead in a pool of blood in their own bed. He was an engineer for Dersa, the state of Sao Paulo’s department of roads and freeways. She was a psychiatrist, who held a successful clinic and had a large number of clients. They had money, a beautiful large house, they were respected and loved by their family and friends. The couple’s two children, Suzane,19 at the time, and Andreas,15, were said to be both out at the time of the murders – she was with her boyfriend, Daniel, and he was at a local lan house playing video games. When they returned on that Saturday morning, they found their house opened, the burglar alarm off, and their parents savagely murdered in their room. They immediately called the police.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course the police immediately got to work on trying to find a good reason for something this brutal – revenge? Maybe the work of a madman? One of Marisia’s patients? Some money from the Richthofens was missing, Manfred’s things all over the place in his study. But if pure and simple robbery was the motive, why not take all the other stuff?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, the country sadly watched a pretty 19 year old blond girl and her younger brother hugging and crying as if there was no tomorrow on their parents’ funeral. Family and friends gathered all around them for support, the girl’s 21 year old boyfriend Daniel always by her side, with red, swollen eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not clear exactly when the police started suspecting Suzane, but we know that they checked pretty much everybody around her. Then they found out that boyfriend Daniel’s older brother, Christian, had bought a new motorcicle just a couple of days after the murder. He didn’t have a job at the time. Under questioning, Christian broke down and named the other two, Suzane and Daniel, as participants. He said he and his brother did the actual killings, but that it was all Suzane’s idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(more on the Richthofen case soon)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O texto em inglês acima é uma breve introdução do caso Richthofen. Aqueles que lêem este blog em português dificilmente precisarão ser relembrados deste crime tão repercutido e tão famoso no Brasil. Suzane Von Richthofen, 19 anos na época do assassinato de seus pais, foi julgada e condenada recentemente junto com Daniel e Christian Cravinhos – os irmãos que fisicamente cometeram o hediondo crime, em 31 de outubro de 2002.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(mais sobre este caso em breve)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32313972-115636240192355775?l=thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/feeds/115636240192355775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32313972&amp;postID=115636240192355775' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115636240192355775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115636240192355775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/08/richthofen-case-case-study-estudo-de.html' title='The Richthofen Case * Case Study * Estudo de Caso'/><author><name>Young Dr. M</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SoVCSyMAkxo/S2ccD2JE_gI/AAAAAAAAAAM/HsDaoUzgeOs/S220/freud2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32313972.post-115585879451325230</id><published>2006-08-17T20:44:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2006-08-17T20:53:14.533-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Modus Operandi II</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;In order to answer that question properly I will first ask another of my readers: what is the use of a certain modus operandi to the killer? Why does he insist in repeating it, in having patterns, knowing that it will only make it easier for the cops to catch him? Why doesn’t he kill different people, in distant places, in different moments, in different ways? Why doesn’t he kill one person with a knife, another with a gun, confusing the police and therefore avoiding to get caught?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s say you’re hungry. Very hungry. You had breakfast at 6 am and now it’s 5 pm and you haven’t eaten anything all day. I do that sometimes, I live alone, so I have pretty much no structure when it comes to food, I either worry about it or I won’t eat, cause nobody will worry about that for me. Major nuisance. So when I’m working and I’m hungry it becomes harder to concentrate. I catch myself thinking, “when I leave my office I’m gonna stop by this place and buy… a burger! I love burgers. Oh no! Or I could go by that other place and get some sushi, I love sushi. Hummm… sushi”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now I’m fantasizing about burgers and sushi. I can’t help it, I’m very hungry. If I try to forget about it I’ll remember every time my stomach wants me to. Someone could come to me and ask, “are you hungry? Do you wanna eat a raw egg, I have one right here”. I won’t eat that, yuk, disgusting, I’ll keep on fantasizing about my burger and sushi – because I don’t like that. I’ll wait, knowing it will make me even more hungry, but I’ll wait so I can eat &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;what gives me pleasure and enjoyment&lt;/span&gt;, not just anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that is a simplified way of explaining what’s the use of a killer’s modus operandi &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;to himself&lt;/span&gt;. His modus operandi is something that services &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;his fantasy&lt;/span&gt;. He could kill in different ways, but that would be like the raw egg to me. Why bother eating it if it won’t satisfy my fantasy of eating stuff I like? And &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I can&lt;/span&gt; eat what I like if I want to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The killer has &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;urges&lt;/span&gt;, kinda like my hunger. And, just like me with burgers and sushi, he has specific ways to satisfy his hunger. It’s incidental to him that the release of his fantasy is illegal. And the violent life a psychopath will lead always begins with fantasy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeffrey Dahmer, the famous american psychopath who ended up killing over 30 men and boys, had a lot to say about that. After he was caught and tried for his crimes, he revealed a lot about his life and early years. It is known that Jeffrey started fantasizing about violence and death as a very young boy. He began by developing a profound interest in dead creatures. When he found a dead animal, road kill mostly, he would take them to the woods and open them up. He wanted to see them on the inside, their organs. He later started killing the animals himself in order to dissect them. So it doesn’t surprise us that Dahmer later became a very aggressive mutilator. He had no real pleasure in their victims’ death or pain; he drugged them before killing them, and most of the time they didn’t even know what became of them. He had consuming fantasies of making his victims become a part of him, so after dismembering them and opening them up (his dissecting interest endured all his life), he would eat them. He wanted them to stay, and that was his motivation always. It is because of those fantasies too that Dahmer took a long time to dispose of his victims’ bodies. He kept them at home with him, rotting in his bed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, the killer’s actions (his modus operandi) are closely related with his need to safisfy his violent fantasies. It wouldn’t satisfy Dahmer’s fantasies at all to kill someone, say, with a gun, and leave their bodies there, on the street. It wouldn’t satisfy him to rape a living person, only a dead one. It wouldn’t satisfy him to kill women because he was a homosexual. He had no desire for women. As much as I don’t have any desire for a raw egg.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A killer is trapped by his modus operandi. The most important thing to him is his &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;specific fantasy&lt;/span&gt; of violence. His M.O. can’t be changed because he &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;wants&lt;/span&gt; things to happen &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;that way&lt;/span&gt;. The more rich and complex is his fantasy, the more rich and complex will be his M.O. And if a killer’s fantasies are poor and chaotic, his M.O. will be poor and chaotic as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;(watch parts of an interview Jeffrey Dahmer gave from death row about his childhood and crimes, right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7ndOUewUCc)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Para responder a esta questão, antes irei indagar meus leitores com a seguinte pergunta: para que serve o modus operandi  para o criminoso? Por que ele insiste em repeti-lo, sabendo que isto facilitará o trabalho da polícia em encontrá-lo? Por que não mata pessoas diferentes, de lugares mais distantes, em momentos diferentes, com características diferentes? Por que não mata um com faca, outro com revólver, confundindo a polícia e evitando ser pego?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vamos fingir que você está com fome, muita fome. Tomou café da manhã às 6 e agora são 5 da tarde e você não comeu mais nada até agora. Às vezes eu faço isso; como moro sozinha não tenho nenhuma infra-estrutura em relação às refeições. Ou me preocupo com isso ou não como, é simples assim, pois ninguém irá se preocupar no meu lugar. Quando estou trabalhando, portanto, e tenho fome, fica muito mais difícil me concentrar. Me pego pensando em coisas do tipo, “quando eu sair daqui vou passar em tal lugar e me comprar… um hamburger! Adoro hamburger. Mas não! Posso sair daqui e ir naquele outro lugar de sushi, amo sushi. Hummmm… sushi”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Então eu começo a fazer essas pequenas fantasias meio incontroláveis sobre hanburgers e sushi. Não posso evitar, estou com muita fome. Se eu tentar me esquecer dela logo mais vou me lembrar de novo, meu estômago vai se manifestar e me lembrar. Nesse momento alguém poderia chegar para mim e dizer, “você está com fome? Quer comer um ovo cru, tenho um aqui”. Vou dizer que não, eca, que nojo, prefiro ficar pensando no meu hamburger e no meu sushi – porque eu não gosto de ovo cru. Eu espero, mesmo sabendo que quanto mais o tempo passa, com mais fome eu fico. Prefiro esperar e poder comer alguma coisa que &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;me dê prazer&lt;/span&gt;, que me seja agradável, não quero comer qualquer coisa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E essa é uma forma simplificada de se explicar o uso que o modus operandi de um assassino tem &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;para si próprio&lt;/span&gt;. Seu modus operandi está à serviço de &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;sua fantasia&lt;/span&gt;. Ele até poderia matar de outras maneiras, mas seria como o ovo cru para mim. Por que comê-lo se não vai nem satisfazer minha vontade de comer as coisas mais agradáveis? E eu &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;posso&lt;/span&gt; comer as coisas mais agradáveis, se quiser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O assassino tem &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;necessidades&lt;/span&gt;, meio assim, como minha fome. E assim como eu e meus hamburgers, ele tem formas específicas de satisfazer sua fome. Para ele é incidental que a forma de realizar sua fantasia é ilegal. E a vida violenta que um psicopata levará no futuro começa a se desenvolver usando a fantasia como combustível.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeffrey Dahmer, o famoso psicopata americano que acabou por matar mais de 30 homens e meninos, teve muito a dizer sobre isso. Depois que ele foi julgado e condenado por seus crimes, acabou revelando muita informação sobre sua vida e sua infância. Hoje sabemos que Jeffrey era ainda um menino pequeno quando começou a fantasiar sobre violência e morte. Ele começou desenvolvendo um profundo interesse por criaturas mortas. Quando encontrava algum animal morto, principalmente em acidentes de estrada, ele levava seu corpo até algum lugar deserto e o dissecava. Ele queria vê-los por dentro, seus órgãos, eram algo que fascinava. Mais para frente ele próprio matava os animais que dissecava. Não nos surpreende saber que Jeffrey Dahmer mais tarde se tornou um dos mais agressivos mutiladores – mas não tinha grande prazer no ato de matar, ou na dor da vítima, pelo contrário. Costumava drogar suas vítimas antes de matá-las, e essas mal percebiam o que lhes acabava por acontecer. Dahmer tinha fantasias poderosas de um dia poder fazer o outro ser parte dele, comia partes de suas vítimas, depois de desmembrá-las e dissecá-las. Queria que as pessoas ficassem, essa sempre foi sua motivação. Por causa disso Dahmer demorava o máximo possível para se desfazer dos corpos de suas vítimas. Ficavam ali com ele, apodrecendo em sua cama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com isso percebemos que as atitudes do assassino (que compõem seu modus operandi) estão intimamente ligadas com a satisfação de suas fantasias. Dahmer não se satisfaria em matar alguém na rua com um tiro, ou em violentar alguém que esteja vivo. Não ficaria satisfeito em matar mulheres, era homossexual. Não tinha desejo por mulheres. Do mesmo jeito que eu não tenho vontade de comer o ovo cru.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um assassino está sempre preso ao seu modus operandi, qualquer que seja. A coisa mais importante para ele é sua fantasia específica de violência. Seu modus operandi não pode mudar muito porque ele que que as coisas aconteçam &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;daquele jeito&lt;/span&gt;. Quanto mais complexas e ricas forem suas fantasias violentas, mais complexo e rico será seu modus operandi. Se as fantasias de um assassino são pobres e caóticas, seu modus operandi também será pobre e caótico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;(Assista partes de uma entrevista que Jeffrey Dahmer deu direto do corredor da morte sobre sua infância e seus crimes, bem aqui: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7ndOUewUCc)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32313972-115585879451325230?l=thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/feeds/115585879451325230/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32313972&amp;postID=115585879451325230' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115585879451325230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115585879451325230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/08/modus-operandi-ii.html' title='Modus Operandi II'/><author><name>Young Dr. M</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SoVCSyMAkxo/S2ccD2JE_gI/AAAAAAAAAAM/HsDaoUzgeOs/S220/freud2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32313972.post-115567121962298289</id><published>2006-08-15T16:41:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2006-08-15T16:46:59.643-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Modus Operandi</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;When we have a crime commited as serious as a homicide (or several, when it involves a serial killer), the only starting point we have to begin understanding the criminal is the crime scene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We’ve all watched CSI and similar shows, or at least we all can agree on the importance of criminalistics to ensure that the law is respected. Psychologists and psychiatrists are usually part of these teams. The physical evidence helps them create a possible psychological profile of the killer, and the result of that work aids the police in being more efficient and competent in finding their criminal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To begin with, the crime scene is all we’ve got. We don’t know who the killer is, and many times, even when they’re caught, we have no acess to the way they think. Few murderers genuinely contribute to the understanding of their pathology – many psychopaths keep silent regarding their motivations. Since it’s part of their anti-social personality to lie and manipulate, it becomes even harder to know the truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s curious to conclude that I work under the same principle in my psychotherapy office, with emotionally healthy people (as healthy as we can all be). The facts always have to be confronted in our minds with what people say. We’ve got what it’s said, but we also got what we can see and notice &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;without the person having to say anything&lt;/span&gt;. For example, if a person sits in front of me in an aggitated manner, and talks through the entire session non stop without giving me an opportunity to speak, I’ll find it at least curious if this person describes herself as a calm listener.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So let’s keep to the facts at first – the crime scene. What can the crime scene reveal to us? We have the actual place where the murder was commited, and we have the victim’s body. With that we can know what was done to the victim, their last moments alive, what kind of violence did they suffer. We can find out how the aggression was commited, we can determine by temperature how long the victim is dead. We can study &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;the victim&lt;/span&gt;, in the absence of a killer. Their habits, their behavior, the last time they were seen in public. We can theorize about ways the victim could have come across their killer, the relationship they had with the killer (if any), how they were chosen, how they were taken, and how long the killer spent with them, alive and dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of that and a bit more come together to establish the killer’s &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;modus operandi&lt;/span&gt;, his “way in which he operates”, from the beginning to the end of his criminal behavior. We have examples of killers that strike and even kill in public places; others brake into their victims’ homes to assault and kill them there, others take the victim to a secure and known place. Many kidnap and spend lots of time with the victim, torturing them physically and psychologically before the final act. Others kill their victim within moments after they take them. Some hide the victim’s body in their own house, some just leave it there where the attack happened, others take the body to a deserted place which makes it more difficult to find it. Many make absolutely no contact with their victim prior to the attack, others stalk them, getting to know their habits. Some choose prostitutes, others older people, or kids, or adults. Some choose victims of specifical physical appearance, others are completely arbitrary, even when it comes to the victim’s gender.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This brings us to my main point. What is the advantage of studying a killer’s modus operandi? To the police the advantage is obvious. Getting to know a killer and the way they act will help them find and catch him faster, and also will able the police to determine the exact population at risk with that specific killer. In other words, it helps the police catch a criminal and try to avoid future crimes. But what about the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;psychological&lt;/span&gt; advantage? What can a killer’s modus operandi tell us about that killer’s personality and emotional structure?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to answer that question properly I will first ask another of my readers: what is the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;use&lt;/span&gt; of a certain modus operandi &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;to the killer&lt;/span&gt;? Why does he insist in repeating it, in having patterns, knowing that it will only make it easier for the cops to catch him? Why doesn’t he kill different people, in distant places, in different moments, in different ways? Why doesn’t he kill one person with a knife, another with a gun, confusing the police and therefore avoiding to get caught?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think about it. Let’s see what you can come up with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando temos um crime cometido da gravidade de um assassinato (ou de vários, no caso de um assassino em série), o único dado que temos para começar a entender o criminoso é a cena do crime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Todos nós já vimos CSI e programas do tipo, ou pelo menos temos noção da importância da ciência criminal para que a lei seja respeitada. Os psicólogos e psiquiatras costumam fazer parte destes times de criminalistas. As evidências físicas os ajudam a formular teses específicas sobre o comportamento do assassino – e esse trabalho por sua vez ajuda a policia a procurar mais eficientemente seu criminoso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No início, cena do crime é tudo que temos. Não sabemos quem é o assassino, e muitas vezes não temos nenhum acesso a seu modo de pensar, até mesmo quando são presos pela polícia. São poucos os que contribuiram genuinamente para a compreensão da sua patologia - muitos psicopatas ficam em silêncio para sempre a respeito de suas motivações. Como faz parte da sua doença seu comportamento manipulatório, mesmo que resolvam falar fica ainda mais difícil saber em quê acreditar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Curiosamente, trabalho com o mesmo princípio no meu consultório, atendendo pessoas mentalmente saudáveis (bem, o mais saudável que dá para ser). Os fatos sempre tem que ser confrontados com o que a pessoa diz. Temos o que é dito, mas temos antes de tudo aquilo que podemos observar &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;sem que o outro tenha de falar&lt;/span&gt;. Por exemplo, se vejo uma pessoa sentar à minha frente, falar sem parar e chacoalhar a perna durante toda a sessão, devo achar no mínimo curioso se esta pessoa se disser calma, controlada e nada ansiosa em sua vida lá fora.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vamos então nos prender aos fatos, à cena do crime. O que ela pode nos revelar? Temos o ambiente em que o crime foi cometido, e temos o corpo da vítima. Sabemos assim o que foi feito com a vítima, seus últimos momentos, que tipo de violência sofreu. Podemos saber em que ordem os ferimentos foram cometidos, podemos medir sua temperatura e descobrir a quanto tempo está morta, e portanto, há quanto tempo seu assassino esteve ali. Podemos estudar &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a vítima&lt;/span&gt;, na falta de um assassino. Seus hábitos, seu temperamento, a última vez em que foi vista em público. Podemos teorizar então em que momento encontrou seu assassino, qual a relação que provavelmente tinha com ele (se é que tinha alguma), como provavelmente ele fez para levá-la contra sua vontade, quanto tempo passou com ela, viva e morta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tudo isso e um pouco mais compoem o &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;modus operandi&lt;/span&gt; do assassino, sua “maneira de operar”, do início até o final de seu comportamento criminoso. Temos assassinos que atacam e até matam na própria rua, outros invadem a casa da vítima e a agridem ali mesmo, outros a levam para um local seguro de seu conhecimento. Muitos raptam e passam longo tempo com a vítima, torturando-a fisicamente ou psicologicamente de tudo que é forma antes do ato final, que é a morte. Outros matam imediatamente. Alguns escondem o corpo da vítima na sua própria casa, outros largam ali mesmo onde o crime foi cometido, outros levam para lugares remotos que dificultem o descobrimento do corpo. Muitos não fazem contato algum com a vítima antes de matá-la, outros são &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;stalkers&lt;/span&gt;, ou seja, elegem uma vítima e passam longo tempo planejando, seguindo a vítima, conhecendo seus hábitos. Alguns escolhem prostitutas, outros idosos, outros crianças, outros adultos. Alguns escolhem sua vítima com base em características físicas específicas (morenas, loiras, jovens, idosas), outros são totalmente arbitrários na escolha da vítima, inclusive em relação a seu sexo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chegamos então ao cerne da questão. Qual a vantagem de se estudar e determinar o modus operandi de um assassino? A vantagem para a polícia é óbvia. Claro que conhecer o assassino e como age ajudará a encontrá-lo, e também a determinar que tipo de população está sujeita ao ataque daquele assassino específico. Ou seja, tem a função de facilitar no encontro com o assassino, e também de evitar futuros crimes. Mas, e a vantagem &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;psicológica&lt;/span&gt;, qual é? O que o modus operandi pode nos dizer de um assassino, em termos de personalidade e estrutura emocional?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para responder a esta questão, antes irei indagar meus leitores com a seguinte pergunta: para que &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;serve&lt;/span&gt; o modus operandi  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;para o criminoso&lt;/span&gt;? Por que ele insiste em repeti-lo, sabendo que isto facilitará o trabalho da polícia em encontrá-lo? Por que não mata pessoas diferentes, de lugares mais distantes, em momentos diferentes, com características diferentes? Por que não mata um com faca, outro com revólver, confundindo a polícia e evitando ser pego?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reflitam sobre isso. Vamos ver o que vocês têm a dizer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32313972-115567121962298289?l=thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/feeds/115567121962298289/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32313972&amp;postID=115567121962298289' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115567121962298289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115567121962298289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/08/modus-operandi.html' title='Modus Operandi'/><author><name>Young Dr. M</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SoVCSyMAkxo/S2ccD2JE_gI/AAAAAAAAAAM/HsDaoUzgeOs/S220/freud2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32313972.post-115523567219304563</id><published>2006-08-10T15:41:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2006-08-10T15:47:52.223-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Kevin Underwood * Part Two * Parte Dois</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I believe today’s post very relevant to understanding the psychopathy of a killer like Kevin Underwood. He’s not the only one. Just last week another guy in Utah was caught for a very similar crime, except this time it was a 5 year old. And this type of crime doesn’t happen only in the United States, although this is the example of an american.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following is one of the most amazing things I ever had the opportunity to read relating to crime. The internet made it possible. It is an instant messenger conversation between Kevin Underwood and an internet friend on the night of april 13th, 2006 (the time on the dialogue is wrong). This friend later shared this conversation with the authorities. As Underwood wrote this, he had 10 year old Jamie Bolin’s body hidden in his closet for 24 hours. It would be another 24 before he was caught. Meanwhile, he went on with his life watching more and more people come together to look for Jamie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Underwood goes by the nickname “subspecies23”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:14:18 PM): I'm glad you're on&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:14:28 PM): Ok, what happened?&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:14:31 PM): I've had a horrible 24 hours&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:14:36 PM): huh???&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:15:11 PM): you know how I said I was going to go to bed early last night? Well, I didn't get to. In fact, I hardly slept at all last night&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:15:30 PM): The girl that lives upstairs from me went missing last night&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:15:43 PM): omg&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:16:02 PM): and I've been worried sick ever since, mainly with the worry that I was going to be named a suspect, and the police would trash my apartment searching it while I was at work&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:16:21 PM): Why would they think YOU a suspect?&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:16:22 PM): as far as anyone can tell, I was the last person to see her before she disappeared&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:16:43 PM): It doesn't matter Kevin....she's missing!&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:16:59 PM): I know I have nothing to worry about, but it's been driving me crazy ever since&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:17:15 PM): If you have nothing to worry about, rest easy.&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:17:34 PM): ever since about 6:30 last night, I've felt like I was only moments away from throwing up. I've hardly ate in 24 hours&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:17:55 PM): Poor girl....UGH&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:18:02 PM): I was out there helping keep watch for her last night, until about 8:00 or so&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:18:15 PM): brb&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:18:17 PM): ok&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:18:27 PM): I do hope they find her!!!!&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:21:48 PM): that was my mom calling about it&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:21:54 PM): Yeah&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:22:11 PM): I kinda figured it was someone like that&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:23:07 PM): so then around 8:00 or so, I tried to go to bed, but couldn't sleep well because of the worrying, and there was a helicoptor flying around all night with a searchlight, and a whole group of people sitting outside all night keeping watch for her, right outside my window pretty much&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:23:25 PM): there's about ten people out there right now, and the helicoptor is still flying around&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:23:48 PM): How old is she around?&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:24:25 PM): Mom said on the news at noon they said they're treating the case as a runaway, and mom called me at work and told me that, and I've been a little less nervous since that. I no longer think the cops are gonne burst in and search the place at any minute&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:24:42 PM): I don't know, but I always figured she was around 12 or 13&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:24:49 PM): a runaway.....omg.....&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:24:53 PM): she better get back home!&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:25:13 PM): yeah, because the last time I saw her, she was riding off on her bike, and that was the last time she was seen. Her bike is still gone&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:25:34 PM): oh noooo!&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:25:42 PM): Is she a small girl?&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:25:50 PM): kinda&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:26:33 PM): the main reason I was worried I'd be a suspect is because I was the last person to see her, and she also talked to me occasionally&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:28:24 PM): well Kevin...you need not worry about that&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:28:31 PM): The last few weeks I've gotten in the habit of hanging out outside my apartment, or just like standing in the open front doorway, and several times she'd stop and talk to me, and one time I was out there with freyja, and she saw freyja and wanted to pet her and stuff, and then later that same day, I was sitting there on the couch for a moment with the front door still open, and the girl just stepped into my apartment and asked if she could hold my rat. So I'm worried my neighbors would've seen all that and suspect me&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:29:02 PM): she seems like a very nice, trusting kid, and that's probably what got her in trouble, if she's not a runaway&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:29:21 PM): Well, the best thing you can do is talk to her parents about all this...that she seems a trusting child&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:29:37 PM): then the night before she went missing, she stopped by my apartment again and asked if she could use my phone&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:30:03 PM): hmmm&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:30:08 PM): tell her parents this!&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:30:30 PM): and I'm afraid the cops would come into my apartment, and see all my knives and swords and the horror movies and documentaries about serial killers on my dvd rack, and suspect me&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:30:55 PM): and there's always blood all over my bedsheets and stuff, but it's my own blood&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:31:05 PM): If they DO suspect you, all you have to do is answer their questions!&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:32:02 PM): yeah, I know. I don't know why it's bothering me so much. I've been so nervous all day, if the cops questioned me, they would think that I did have something to do with it, because of how I was acting&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:32:18 PM): and I can barely keep my food down&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:32:35 PM): I'm a lot better now, but it drove me crazy all night and morning&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:32:56 PM): I hope she's ok.&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:33:11 PM): She looks a lot like Marci. Maybe that's part of what's bothering me&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:33:43 PM): I think it is part of it.&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:34:14 PM): she's got red hair, and kinda reminds me of Marci a little&lt;br /&gt;[Marci is the name of Kevin Underwood's younger sister - thanks Taximom]&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:35:22 PM): oh hun&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:36:15 PM): thanks&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:36:26 PM): you're welcome&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:36:56 PM): even though I'm in a better mood now this afternoon, my stomach still feels a little funny. I think that's just because it's so empty, though&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:37:37 PM): yeah, you need to try and eat&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:37:51 PM): the investigators will do their best&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:38:26 PM): I didn't have any dinner, and I only had like half a bowl of cereal for breakfast, and I didn't even drink the milk from it, I poured it out. Then I just had a six-inch sub from subway for lunch&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:50:32 PM): another phone call, but it was just a stupid telemarketer&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:51:44 PM): man, I just don't know why I was so paranoid about all this earlier. I know I didn't do anything, but I felt like I did. I expected the cops to come in an arrest me at any minute.&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:52:14 PM): it really freaked me out when my boss sent some new guy over to help us. I didn't know who this guy was, and he just walked up to me and said "Kevin Underwood?"&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 2:52:35 PM): ohhh, yikes&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 2:53:33 PM): even though just by looking at him you could tell he definitely wasn't a cop or anything, lol. It was some guy, probably about 20, with a goatee, and wearing a t-shirt with a monkey face on it, lol&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 3:12:08 PM): holy crap! Another phone call! This time it was a wrong number&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 3:12:17 PM): lol yikes&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 3:12:33 PM): in the last two hours I've gotten more phone calls than I normally get in a week&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 3:12:51 PM): and every time the phone rings, I freak out again a little&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 3:13:04 PM): Why not listen to your Ipod then?&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 3:13:13 PM): I've got itunes running now&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 3:13:41 PM): I just turned it on about five minutes ago, sitting here in silence was driving me nuts. Thinking too much&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 3:14:18 PM): Yeah, it's best to listen to music or watch a movie...maybe even read&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 3:29:25 PM): and those people are all just sitting right outside my bedroom window, barely a foot from it&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 3:29:41 PM): They're worried.&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 3:30:00 PM): yeah, but I hope they don't sit right outside my window all night&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 3:31:06 PM): They don't seem very worried. They're being loud and laughing a lot&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 4:14:17 PM): ok Kevin, I'm gonna go lay down....[name removed] tired&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 4:14:32 PM): I'm probably gonna go to bed early too&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 4:14:41 PM): I hope you feel better and that the girl gets found!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 4:14:50 PM): goodnight&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 4:15:09 PM): take care, and try to talk to her parents sometime soon....that way they will know of what she did before she left&lt;br /&gt;subspecies23 (4/13/2006 4:15:19 PM): ok, bye&lt;br /&gt;former "friend" (4/13/2006 4:15:24 PM): ok bye bye&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A curious detail about this case is that Kevin Underwood never finished what he had previously planned to do with his victim. The prosecutor assigned to this case gave a press conference a few days after the discovery of Jamie’s body in Underwood’s apartment. In it, he says the murder of Jamie was part of a plan to not only kill someone, but to rape them, dismember them, eat portions of the body (he was known even to joke about cannibalism) and later dispose of it. The police even found meat tenderizer and barbecue skewers in his apartment, as absurd as it may sound. So this was very thought out. And Kevin Underwood had 48 hours to do what he intended to Jamie’s body.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This sort of violent but careful procedure like a dismemberment requires privacy. I can’t imagine Underwood having plans to take her body elsewhere than his apartment to do it, so we can’t even say he wasn’t expecting the repercussion of the missing girl’s case and therefore had no opportunity to move her body. Murderers that cannibalize their victims remais usually do this at home, it’s a private, intimate moment with the victim. Jamie’s body was found with deep saw marks on her neck, as if Underwood had tried to decapitate her. So he was beginning the process of dismemberment, but something made him stop. I think this previous conversation with his friend helps us see why, and the state of mind that Underwood was in 24 hours after he commited the most violent of acts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kevin Underwood is a narcissistic killer. He feels the world has wronged him. He feels he deserves much more than what his life is giving him. That pisses him off profoundly. Like so many other killers like him his emotional behavior tends to go back and forth from being very depressed with the lowest of self esteems to being aggressive, violent, arrogant, with feelings of entitlement and omnipotence. He thinks no one can come close to understanding him, because he’s so &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;complex&lt;/span&gt;. He’s not for the ordinary person.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because this type of killer thinks he’s capable of anything, he very frequently can’t come close to coping with the reality of his actions once it turns to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;action&lt;/span&gt; and leaves the field of fantasy. That may explain Kevin’s behavior with his victim’s body: he was very powerful in his dismemberment fantasies, but an underachiever in real life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acredito que esse post de hoje é muito importante para se entender a psicopatia de um assassino como Kevin Underwood. Ele não é o único. Semana passada pegaram um cara em Utah, nos EUA, por um crime muito parecido, só de desta vez a vítima foi uma menina de 5 anos. E esse tipo de crime não acontece só nos EUA, apesar de eu estar usando o exemplo de um americano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O que vem a seguir é uma das coisas mais impressionantes que eu já tive a oportunidade de ler em relação à crimes. Foi possível graças à internet. É uma conversa de msn entre Kevin Underwood e um amigo que ele conheceu na internet, na noite de 13 de Abril de 2006 (a hora na conversa está errada). Esse amigo depois mostrou isso às autoridades, dizendo que tinha achado a conversa estranha já no dia. Enquanto Underwood estava tendo essa conversa com seu amigo, o corpo de Jamie Bolin já estava escondido no seu armário por 24 horas. Mais 24 se passariam até que ele fosse detido pela polícia. Enquanto isso, ele foi levando a sua vida normalmente, assistindo cada vez um maior número de pessoas se mobilizando para encontrar a menina desaparecida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O nickname usado aqui por Underwood é “subspecies 23”. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(a conversa se encontra acima, na versão em inglês).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um detalhe curioso sobre este crime é que Kevin Underwood não chegou a terminar o que havia previamente planejado fazer com sua vítima. Alguns dias após a prisão de Underwood, o promotor do caso fez uma declaração oficial para a imprensa. Lá ele disse que o assassinato de Jamie foi parte de um plano que envolvia não só matar alguém, mas também violentar, desmembrar o corpo, comer partes do corpo (Underwood era conhecido por fazer piadas de canibalismo) e por fim se desfazer do corpo. A polícia até encontrou um espeto de churrasco e amaciante de carne no seu apartamento, por mais absurdo que isso soe. Portanto, o assassinato cometido contra Jamie foi um evento cuidadosamente planejado. E Kevin Underwood teve 48 horas para fazer o que quisesse com o corpo da vítima.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esse tipo de procedimento violento mas cuidadoso como um desmembramento requer privacidade. Não parece lógico que Kevin Underwood pretendesse mover o corpo de Jamie de seu apartamento para isso; assassinos que canibalizam a vítima costumam fazer isso em suas casas, é um momento privado e muito íntimo. O corpo de Jamie foi encontrado com profundos cortes no pescoço, como se ele houvesse tentado decapitá-la – mas nenhuma outra marca como esta. Isso sugere que Underwood chegou a iniciar o processo de desmembramento, mas algo o deteve. Eu acredito que essa conversa com seu amigo que acabamos de ler nos ajuda a entender por quê, e o estado de espírito em que Underwood se encontrava 24 horas após ter cometido um ato tão violento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kevin Underwood é um assassino narcísico. Ele sente que o mundo está em dívida com ele. Sente que merece muito mais do que a vida lhe oferece. Isso o irrita profundamente. Como tantos assassinos deste tipo que temos conhecimento, o comportamento de Underwood constantemente oscila entre dois momentos: o primeiro, de intensa depressão e baixa auto estima, e o segundo, de agressividade e extrema arrogância, com fantasias de onipotência. Ele pensa que ninguém pode chegar perto de compreendê-lo, por que ele é terrivelmente complexo. Não é um cara comum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como esse tipo de assassino pensa que é capaz de qualquer coisa, ele frequentemente não consegue lidar com as consequências das suas ações, no momento em que se tornam ações e saem do campo da fantasia. Isso pode explicar o comportamento de Underwood em relação ao corpo de sua vítima: ele era provavelmente muito poderoso nas suas fantasias de desmembramento, mas acabou por ser um fracasso na vida real. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32313972-115523567219304563?l=thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/feeds/115523567219304563/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32313972&amp;postID=115523567219304563' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115523567219304563'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115523567219304563'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/08/kevin-underwood-part-two-parte-dois.html' title='Kevin Underwood * Part Two * Parte Dois'/><author><name>Young Dr. M</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SoVCSyMAkxo/S2ccD2JE_gI/AAAAAAAAAAM/HsDaoUzgeOs/S220/freud2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32313972.post-115508110038448231</id><published>2006-08-08T20:45:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2006-08-10T15:41:21.183-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Kevin Underwood * Case Study * Estudo de Caso</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/809/3530/1600/0000h5b6.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/809/3530/200/0000h5b6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I chose Kevin Underwood’s case to be the first to be discussed here. It’s very recent, and he’s the perfect example of the modern sexually-motivated killer. Later on we’ll be able to discuss with more detail this type of criminal. It’s also a case that shocked me and interested me a lot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagine Kevin Ray Underwood. He’s a regular guy. For starters, he’s 26 years old, that’s exactly my age. He lives alone in a small american town (Purcell, Ohklahoma, to be exact), he’s underpaid and mostly unhappy, he dropped out of college and has no idea where his life is going. Sometimes some few friends come over too and he laughs with them and passes out on the couch from too much drinking. He’s not really close to them though, he probably wants to be – but he met them recently, at work or something like that. He hates his hick neighbors, he’s shy and depressed, he sometimes gains a bit of weight and feels gross, and when he comes home from his unchallenging job he listens to his iTunes and talks to people on the net cause that’s pretty much his social life. He has no direction or guidance, that’s pretty common. He probably comes from a pretty normal family too where there isn’t much dialogue, not much space to work out those natural anxieties and family issues. He has a blog where he tries to talk about stuff, but he also plays a little cool cause he expects to get girls that way. So he’s got his problems and frustrations but for some reason his mind has different ways of working out those issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This person needs relief. He even takes some pills at some point, goes to a doctor, thinks he might feel better. From what? From feeling inadequate? From being a loser weird virgin? All girls want to be his friends but no one wants to have sex with him. He starts getting angry - that’s also a pretty ordinary way to handle frustration. But since he’s also a bit cowardly he lashes out his violence only through fantasy. Only through fantasy. So he starts thinking about stuff. Weird stuff. Sexual fantasies start getting violent - and a lonely, sexually deprived young adults fantasises a lot. He probably enjoys the fact that he’s the only one who knows the danger he’s becoming. That makes him feel a little powerful and in control. Fantasies then become a study in violence, until he works up the courage to do the real thing (don’t forget he’s cowardly).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really don’t know what happened to Kevin Ray Underwood, this is just speculation on my part, based on what I know about this type of criminal and everything I read in the USA news about him. He’s in prison now and there’s a gag order in place so the news won’t talk about him anymore. At least not until his trial comes in, say, a year from now. On April 12th, 2006 a girl living in the same apartment complex as Underwood, 10 year old Jamie Bolin, disappeared and was believed kidnapped. Amber alert and the usual american police and media circus in place, everybody’s frantically looking for the little girl. Underwood can’t even sleep with the noise people organizing search parties are making underneath his window. He volunteers for help, but all we know is that at some point police found him suspicious. Two days after Jamie was reported missing, the police asked him permission to search his apartment, and he agreed. When an officer approached his bedroom closet, apparently he broke down and said, “Open up, she’s in there. I chopped her up.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And there was hidden the naked body of a 10 year old freckled girl. He hit her a few times on the head with a wooden cutting board. The first words out of her mouth after the attack began was “I’m sorry”. He then covered her mouth with duct tape and pressed his hand over her face, suffocating and killing her. After that was done, he raped her, and started on the process of dismembering her body. He couldn’t go through with it though. Jamie was found with deep saw marks on her neck, as if he had tried to decapitate her, but that was as far as he went. He then dumped her in a plastic tub, along with a towel to soak the blood, and left her there, like that, in his closet, living with him for two days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on Underwood later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Escolhi o caso do americano Kevin Underwood para ser o primeiro a ser discutido aqui. É bem recente, e Underwood é o perfeito exemplo do assassino sexualmente motivado. Mais para frente teremos a oportunidade de discutir como são esses criminosos em específico. Além de tudo, é uma história que me chocou muito mas também me deixou muito interessada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tentem imaginar esse cara. Kevin Ray Underwood. Ele é um cara comum. Tem 26 anos, exatamente a minha idade. Mora sozinho numa cidadezinha dos EUA (Purcell, Ohklahoma), ganha pouco, vida monótona, largou a faculdade no meio, não se adaptava, não tem idéia do rumo que sua vida está tomando. Às vezes uns amigos vêm em casa, tomam umas com ele e eles apagam no sofá. Apesar dessa demonstração de intimidade eles não são muito íntimos, não de verdade. Pessoas que ele conheceu no trabalho. Ele não gosta dos vizinhos, são uns caipiras, ele acha que ele é melhor; às vezes ele ganha peso e se sente mal, e quando chega em casa do trabalho, liga o seu iTunes e fica conversando com pessoas na internet, que é na verdade o único lugar onde a sua vida afetiva enriquece. Tímido e depressivo, não tem muita direção nem muita orientação, coisa muito comum, aliás. Provavelmente vem de uma família bem normal também, mediana, onde não há todo aquele diálogo nem muita educação afetiva, mas com pessoas relativamente bem formadas e bem informadas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Essa pessoa precisa de alívio, certo? Ele até tenta tomar antidepressivos por um período, vai se consultar com um psiquiatra, tem esperança, pensa que vai se sentir melhor. Do quê? De se sentir inadequado? De ser estranho, virgem? As meninas querem ser suas amigas mas nunca querem dormir com ele. Ele começa a ficar com raiva – o que é um meio bem comum de lidar com a frustração, um meio que todos nós usamos. Mas como ele tem uma personalidade introvertida e até meio covarde, passiva, ele solta essa agressividade somente através de fantasias, só de fantasias. E então começa a fantasiar bastante, pensar em coisas esquisitas, fantasias sexuais vão ficando cada vez mais esquisitas e violentas – e um moço jovem e solitário, privado de vida sexual, costuma fantasiar bastante. Ele provavelmente gosta da idéia de que ninguém sabe como ele vai se tornando perigoso, a ameaça que ele vai virando em silêncio. Começa a se sentir um pouco mais poderoso e no controle da situação. Suas fantasias começam a se tornar um estudo em violência, uma preparação e um ensaio, até que ele agrupa coragem para começar a realizar o que fantasia (não se esqueça que ele se acovarda fácil).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eu realmente não sei o que houve com Kevin Underwood, tudo isso é especulação da minha parte, baseado no que sei sobre esse tipo de criminoso e em tudo que consegui ler sobre o caso dele na imprensa americana. Ele está preso agora e existe uma ordem judicial que proíbe a imprensa de discutir casos de crimes hediondos quando estes ainda estão em processo de investigação. Então não se fala mais nele, pelo menos não até seu julgamento começar, coisa que vai acontecer em aproximadamente um ano. No dia 12 de Abril de 2006, Jamie Bolin, uma menina de 10 anos moradora do mesmo complexo de apartamentos onde Underwood morava desapareceu. Acreditava-se que ela havia sido raptada. Com o habitual circo de imprensa e polícia montados em, vamos dizer, coisa de horas, todo mundo começou a procurar loucamente a menina e só se falava nisso. Underwood não podia nem dormir à noite de tanto barulho que o povo fazia embaixo da janela dele, organizando buscas pela menina, fazendo vigílias à luz de velas, madrugada afora. Ele participa da busca, se voluntaria a ajudar, mas o que se sabe hoje é que em determinado momento a polícia começou a desconfiar dele. 48 horas após a menina ter desaparecido, a polícia pede permissão para olhar o apartamento de Kevin Underwood, e ele permite. Quando um policial se aproximava do armário de seu quarto, aparentemente ele não aguentou a tensão e confessou, “pode abrir, ela está aí. Eu cortei ela toda.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E lá escondido estava o corpo de uma menina sardenta de 10 anos. Ele começou por bater na cabeça dela algumas vezes com uma tábua de madeira. A primeira frase que saiu da boca da menina quando a agressão começou foi “desculpa”. Em seguida, ele tapou sua boca com uma fita isolante e pressionou sua mão sobre seu rosto para sufocá-la – foi quando a menina finalmente morreu. Então ele a violentou, e iniciou o processo de desmembramento de seu corpo. Mas aí parece que ele não pôde ir em frente, por algum motivo, embora se soubesse que essa era sua intenção inicial. Jamie foi encontrada no seu guarda-roupas nua, dentro de uma banheira plástica, junto com uma toalha para conter o sangue, com profundas marcas de serra no pescoço. E lá ela ficou, por dois dias inteiros, morando com ele.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais sobre Underwood depois.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32313972-115508110038448231?l=thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/feeds/115508110038448231/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32313972&amp;postID=115508110038448231' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115508110038448231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115508110038448231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/08/kevin-underwood-case-study-estudo-de.html' title='Kevin Underwood * Case Study * Estudo de Caso'/><author><name>Young Dr. M</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SoVCSyMAkxo/S2ccD2JE_gI/AAAAAAAAAAM/HsDaoUzgeOs/S220/freud2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32313972.post-115497629538671354</id><published>2006-08-07T14:30:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2006-08-29T20:04:48.200-03:00</updated><title type='text'>The Anti-Social Personality * A Personalidade Anti-Social</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;“A psychiatric condition, anti-social personality disorder is defined as chronic behavior that manipulates, exploits, or violates the rights of others. Someone with the disorder may break the law repeatedly, lie, get in fights and show a lack of remorse.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I came across this quote the other day. Can’t remember the source.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thinking about the anti-social personality is the best way to start thinking about murder and its variations, this type of crime that ends in death. We hear around all sorts of terms like psycho, serial killer, mentally ill, ripper, maniac and so on… and I feel that in fact no one really knows what’s what. The most important thing to know is the anti-social personality disorder and its basic aspects, that is the ample term that best englobes the criminal personality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The name is self explanatory. The anti-social person is anti-social – they tend to brake society’s rules. And society’s most basic rules (like “it’s not allowed to kill”) exist for a very simple reason, evolutionary even, a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;natural&lt;/span&gt; reason. We can’t just kill each other when we’re pissed because human race would extinct, it’s that simple. The main principle of a society based on rules is to inhibit destructive behavior and encourage constructive behavior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously today’s social rules end up being far more complex than this, after all we left the caves for the big city, we live in a world where rules are also connected to our emotions. There are more delicate social rules that are here mainly so we behave carefully with others’ feelings. For example, if I’m invited to someone’s house, I will most certainly greet whoever’s there when I arrive. I do this because it is expected of me, because I want people to like me and accept me. Also, in our society it is considered rude not to greet people when you meet them, specially in their homes. And being rude is being &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;aggressive&lt;/span&gt;, it is to trample on others’ feelings, and I mind that. So you see. The sociopath, the one with the anti-social personality disorder, usually has a profound disrespect for all social rules, affecting the most basic ones, like “you can’t kill”, and the most sophisticated ones, like minding other people’s feelings. And that is part of who he is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the sociopath doesn’t respect the rules, doesn’t &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;feel&lt;/span&gt; respect for them, they’ll have to develop other special resources to cope with our highly social world: they will have to lie well and manipulate well, so others won’t notice their forbidden behavior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that is the sociopath in their most basic traits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; “Um quadro psiquiátrico, a desordem de personalidade anti-social é definida como o comportamento crônico de manipular, tirar proveito ou violar os direitos dos outros. Alguém com essa desordem pode repetidamente desrespeitar a lei, mentir, se envolver em brigas e mostrar-se desprovido de remorso.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me dei com essa citação outro dia. Não me lembro da fonte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pensar na personalidade anti-social é o começo para se pensar em assassinato e suas variações, nesse tipo de crime que culmina em morte. A gente ouve termos por aí como psicopata, assassino em série, louco, maníaco, doente mental, e eu sinto que na verdade ninguém sabe muito bem o quê é o quê. O mais importante é saber o que é personalidade anti-social e suas características; esse é o termo mais amplo para se falar da personalidade criminosa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O próprio nome já dá todas as dicas. O anti-social é anti-social - ou seja, tem uma tendência a se comportar de um modo que costuma &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ir contra&lt;/span&gt; as regras sociais. E as regras sociais mais básicas (como por exemplo, “é proibido matar”) existem por um motivo também básico, evolutivo, da natureza. Não podemos matar uns aos outros num acesso de raiva por que senão a espécie acaba, é simples assim. O princípio de uma sociedade regrada é inibir tudo na gente que quer destruir e incentivar tudo que quer construir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claro que as regras sociais acabam sendo muito mais complexas do que isso, afinal saímos das cavernas e nos mudamos para a metrópole, vivemos em um mundo onde regras são ligadas a afetos. Existem regras sociais mais delicadas que servem somente para tomar cuidado com os sentimentos dos outros e manter a boa convivência. Por exemplo, se sou convidada à casa de alguém, tenho que chegar e cumprimentar os presentes com cortesia. Faço isso porque é o que é esperado de mim e tenho vontade que as pessoas gostem de mim, me aceitem. Na nossa sociedade é considerado grosseiro não cumprimentar as pessoas, e ser grosseiro com alguém é &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ser agressivo&lt;/span&gt;, magoa os sentimentos do outro. Pois é. Aquele de personalidade anti-social, o sociopata, em geral tem um profundo desprezo por todo tipo de regra social, das mais básicas como “não pode matar” como as mais sofisticadas, como por exemplo se preocupar e se importar com como o outro está se sentindo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como o sociopata não tem respeito pelas regras, e portanto nenhuma motivação interna para acatá-las, será obrigado a desenvolver alguns recursos para viver nesse nosso mundo social: terá que saber mentir e manipular, para que os outros não detectem seu comportamento proibido.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E esse é o sociopata nas suas características mais básicas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32313972-115497629538671354?l=thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/feeds/115497629538671354/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32313972&amp;postID=115497629538671354' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115497629538671354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115497629538671354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/08/anti-social-personality-personalidade.html' title='The Anti-Social Personality * A Personalidade Anti-Social'/><author><name>Young Dr. M</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SoVCSyMAkxo/S2ccD2JE_gI/AAAAAAAAAAM/HsDaoUzgeOs/S220/freud2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32313972.post-115496375433916386</id><published>2006-08-07T11:49:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2006-08-07T12:15:55.446-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome to The Crime Philosopher!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Neste post inaugural gostaria de explicar aos meus futuros leitores as razões da existência deste blog. Na minha formação e experiência como psicóloga clínica sempre acabei tombando com meu interesse pelo crime e suas relações com a psicopatia. Um interesse e avidez de leitura que vêm desde a minha adolescência, ficou inevitável, somado com meus conhecimentos em psicologia, a minha vontade de compreender, explicar e pensar sobre o assunto. Psicologicamente. E do meu jeito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pois então, quem gosta do assunto, entre, comente, coloque as suas idéias e me ajude a filosofar sobre o crime. Posts em inglês e português serão bem vindos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;In this first post I would like to explain to my future readers the reasons for the creation of this blog. Throughout my continuing education and experience as a clinical psychologist I'm always stumbling upon my interest in criminal behavior and its relations with psycopathy. This interest and the constant reading on the subject made it inevitable that I try to understand, explain and think on the subject. Psychologically. And in my own way. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;So, for those who like it, feel free to enter, read and comment. Share your ideas and help me be a crime pshilosopher. Posts in english and portuguese are welcome. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32313972-115496375433916386?l=thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/feeds/115496375433916386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32313972&amp;postID=115496375433916386' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115496375433916386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32313972/posts/default/115496375433916386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thecrimephilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/08/welcome-to-crime-philosopher.html' title='Welcome to The Crime Philosopher!'/><author><name>Young Dr. M</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SoVCSyMAkxo/S2ccD2JE_gI/AAAAAAAAAAM/HsDaoUzgeOs/S220/freud2.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
