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All In The Mind · Fame, isolation and terror: inside the mind of a lone mass killer · 20 Jun 2026 podcast

We're in the seaside town of Aramoana near Dunedin in New Zealand.

And this is Professor Paul Mullen, a now-retired forensic psychiatrist.

And the incident was this.

A 33-year-old unemployed local man had gone on a rampage after an argument with a neighbor.

He shot and killed 13 people before being shot and killed by police himself.

Because you weren't doing forensic psychiatry at the time, were you?

Right.

What were some of those red flags that you now recognize were red flags?

This was Paul Mullen's first brush with the lone actor mass killer.

And it would be the start of a long career studying people who commit mass murder on their own.

Paul is the author of Running Amok, an investigation of what drives someone to do the unthinkable.

And today, I'm speaking to him about some of the patterns that become clear over a life study of mass killers.

And the actions, big and small, that we can take to prevent mass killings from happening in the first place.

I'm Sana Khadar, and from ABC Radio National, this is All in the Mind.

Today, from incels to disgruntled former employees to sometimes terrorists, we go inside the mind of a lone actor mass killer, and we find out the broader social history of this particular kind of violence.

The phrase running amok refers to behavior that is wild and uncontrolled and dangerous.

It can be used in less serious ways, like there's a million kids running amok around here, but its origins have to do with murder, and specifically murder in Malaysia.

Paul says the authorities eventually cottoned on to this, and they developed a system for trying to ensure these people were captured rather than killed.

And when they were captured, they were put into mental institutions.

So that's where the term running amok or running amuck comes from.

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