Charles Ewing

I have a J for 10 points.

Well, most of the hundreds of killers I've evaluated have been pretty ordinary people.

Some are extraordinary.

There are some serial killers, some spree killers, some really awful psychopathic individuals.

But for the most part, people kill not in a premeditated way.

They're not evil.

They're not sociopathic.

They're not psychopathic.

They kill because something happens that pushes them over the edge.

I still, the whole idea of premeditation just doesn't fit for Adnan.

Yeah.

People sometimes lose it.

And when they lose it, it's not always all at once.

I've seen a lot of cases in which people have over a relatively short period of time snapped.

nursed feelings of rejection or anger or hostility, and they've slowly risen to the point at which the individual decides to kill somebody.

Those feelings simmer for a while, and one of the thoughts is, maybe I should kill this person.

I'm not going to kill this person.

I don't want to kill this person, but what if I did?

and the person thinks about it, and then maybe confronts the other person, the person who's the object of the frustration, the anger, and then at that point,

the victim or would-be victim says or does something that triggers it, that provokes the ultimate killing.