Dr. Coltan Scrivner

Most people have the capacity to develop behaviors that we would call psychopathic.

Under the right circumstances, many people can narrow their empathic circle such that other people become not only neutral, but maybe even targets.

Those are the kind of individuals that you have trouble spotting if you pass them on the sidewalk.

Victims are often women, and it's a scenario that, while not very common in the grand scheme of things, if it's going to happen to someone, might be a bit more likely that it would happen to a woman than a man.

The best way to learn about someone dangerous is, of course, to get to know them.

But that's a very risky strategy because if you get to know someone dangerous, your chances of becoming a victim of violence at their hands goes way up.

If only, right?

The only way to learn about it is after the fact.

They're harder to identify in the real world.

I've had some really spooky, weird experiences.

I've seen things that I can't explain.

It kind of rattled me a little bit.

The simple answer to that is because we can tell stories about death, right?

We can tell stories about people who are dangerous that we may not know about.

And if any other animal could do that, they certainly would.

Yeah, I think one of the questions I get is, is it just the mystery, right?

Is that why we love true crime?

Because there's a mystery there.

And I think that's some of it.

But most things are mysterious to us.