I'm somewhat familiar with the West case. However, while watching this I was struck with Fred West's portrayed "clairvoyance". Was this accurate? I'm referring to his knowing that Rose was in the police station without seeing/hearing her, and his claiming to hear the murder victims cry out to him from the grave. Did he really think he was psychic?
shareHe might have been bunging it on but I think he really believed he had a "connection" with his victims. It was possibly more powerplay over them, even long after their deaths. I do think he had some genuine regret about Anna McFall but he was a rotten, narcissistic liar none the less.
shareWest was clearly both a sociopath and psychopath, as was his sadistic foul mouth wife. He was not a psychic, he was simply great at manipulating Jane.
The West couples entire existence was creepy and bizarre. Rose was a prostitute, there was a hole in a wall next to the room where she was with her clients, it was clearly for the husband to watch and film his wife with other men.
None of the children reported what was going on?! They were oblivious to what was going on, that their mom was a prostitute? They never snooped in the rooms with sexual paraphernalia? I guess if they grew up this way, they assumed their parents were normal? I guess the couple beat and threatened their kids so they wouldn't reveal what was going on.
I was extremely shocked by the ineptness of the the police department.
I've been around several sociopaths, most did not even see what they were doing was wrong or that they were even telling lies. If they did know they were lying, they always felt there was a valid reason to justify their horrid behavior. Sociopaths are great at rationalizing all the crazy things they've done.
Where were the experts, why did it take so long to convict these two lunatics? Did I miss something? The couple started murdering in 1974-75, but weren't on trial until the mid 1990s?! That is ridiculous. People simply do not disappear into thin air.
West might have been uneducated, but he sure was a master manipulator, scary indeed!
Yeah, I hear what you're saying, emo, but it was hard for the police to make a case. It's not against the law to be a psychopath or sociopath, and nobody actually reported anyone associated with the Wests (such as Fred's daughter) as missing until many years after their murders.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
I don't think the script was suggesting he was actually psychic, just that the dead women "calling" to him was part of the elaborate fantasy he had constructed for himself. He seemed to believe he had some kind of ongoing relationship with them -- notice how he often spoke as if they were his "loves" that had somehow been taken from him, or that they "got killed", and only rarely can he state it directly that he was the one who had killed them?
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.