Katherine Ramsland
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So he was in a very different kind of situation.
But he didn't have that middle-class wife and kids and church, and he didn't have—that wasn't him.
I think that's true.
I think he would have—
preferred to have been in a different environment than he ended up in.
It depends on the direction his fantasies would have taken him, yes.
Because the first murder...
The Otero family.
It was supposed to only be two people.
He planned badly that day.
But he had just been fired from a job he really liked.
He was feeling like a failure because now his wife was supporting him.
You know, the values of the middle America in the 1970s.
The wife is not supporting the husband.
And he felt like a failure.
He was angry.
And he was acting out.
Had that not happened and he had a way to discharge his fantasies, I think it's possible that he wouldn't have done something like that.
Yeah, pretty much.
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