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Why all the SYMPATHY for the KILLER in this weeks episode?


The guy was a card carrying psychopath. Maybe...just maybe there could be sympathy if it had been left as a crime of passion but when the guys dismembers his girlfriend and cooks her in pots that instantly catapults him into MONSTER territory. I cringed that people were giving him a pass.

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No, killing someone calmly (as he admitted to doing), feeling no remorse and sleeping in the same apartment with their corpse (as he admitted to doing), having so little respect and empathy that you dismember them and leave them on the stove is the behavior of a sociopath. No, "becoming one" as if that makes it okay.

I couldn't care less if he went to war. Excuses, excuses. There are plenty of people who have gone to war and are not turned into murderers. He should have jumped off that roof BEFORE he killed that girl and the fact that she was "damaged" as you say and doing drugs does not mean she deserved that death.

I was disturbed by the people expressing sympathy for him. He could not have done more to admit he was a lowlife pig. Even he didn't attempt to give excuses and yet others continue to do it for him.

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Found this link to a bit more of the story, http://www.crimemuseum.org/blog/truly-chilling/, I was shocked when the TV story said how they had become 'celebrities', who found love and by not leaving the French Quarter after Katrina, then to kill and cook Addie!!

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What we need to remember, is that your every day normal person, doesn't get mixed up in this lifestyle in the first place, so these 2 were nothing but a couple of straight up low-lifes. The kind if we saw on the street, we'd cringe and walk the other way. But, I was furious that the show made excuses for the guy. They even had Addie, 'talking' and saying something like, 'I have to admit, I didn't make things easier'. No way, should they have put those words in her mouth. It was bad enough when his mother, friends, etc., passive aggressively blamed the victim, but it's not fair to have the dead victim blaming herself. I understand that they want to keep things balanced, but this episode went too far, and it really bothered me. Because of this, I didn't think I'd like the episode, but in the end, I did. Overall, they did a good job, especially with the atmosphere. I remember when this happened, and I was just plain disgusted, so maybe in an effort to find a real story about real people, (that didn't wallow in disgust), the show was forced to hold back a little.

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