Sana Khadar

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

And Paul says what was playing out was essentially a cultural script where this taboo against suicide led certain people to act in this uniquely violent way.

And by denying them death, that cultural script was disrupted.

Professor Paul Mullen says the first case we know of in the West of this kind of violence didn't happen until 1913 in Germany.

And then, more than a decade later, it happened again in Melbourne, in a case that's referred to as the Botanic Gardens Massacre.

There was another one in New York after the Second World War.

But if you keep fast-forwarding the timeline to the last 30, 40 years, these kinds of lone-actor mass killings have become far too common in the headlines.

But Paul says there is one event that's responsible for accelerating this modern trend.

And it happened at the University of Texas in 1966, when a man went to the top of the tower on the campus there and began shooting people.

He eventually killed 14 before being shot and killed himself.

But what made this case stand out is it was the first to receive wide-scale publicity.

It was covered in major papers across the U.S., and it was eventually turned into a film as well.

And that's interesting because when these kinds of tragedies happen now, you hear killers, when the press covers their sort of manifestos, that they've referenced other killers.

You know, I think about incel-type violence where other incel killers have been referenced as well.

So these people are copying each other.

They're watching each other and copying each other.

Yeah, depressingly so.

And in terms of the psychological makeup of these men, and it's pretty much all men, you write that depression, obsessiveness, grandiosity, and resentment, in addition to delusions of persecution, make up the state of mind required for mass murder.

Is that really the same kind of basic psychological script or personality traits for all of these types of killers?

Can you tease apart those differences a little bit more?

What separates terrorism from some of these things?

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