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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not understanding the hate for BK family.  Even if he was a weirdo and possibly violent wtf were they supposed to do about it?  You can’t jail a psychopath prior to the crime.  And it’s debatable his parents had any clue since the people article mentions he called his mother regularly so not sure that him chatting with her on the phone that day proves absolutely anything.  The judgment here is disgusting.[/quote]

Don't be naive. It was 6am. Of course she knew. It's understandable they didn't know what would happen, but they certainly knew it after it happened.[/quote]

He apparently frequently called his mom as early as 4 am. I think it's odd behavior, but it doesn't sound like it was out of the ordinary for him at all.[/quote]

+1, he was obviously a troubled guy who engaged in some strange or frustrating behavior, but it's wild some people seem to to think that if you had a son call you at 6am, your first thought would be "oh my kid you murdered someone." Of course it wouldn't be, even if you knew your son had problems.[/quote]

The sister explains that the killer had troubles galore (including heroin addiction), but had never been violent.[/quote]

The reporting is awful. Why is there no follow up question to why she was trying to force him out of the house? There must have been a serious reason, yet the reporting doesn't indicate why? From the article:

[b]He was still socially awkward and could be abrasive, she said. They often argued. Still, she said she never saw him be violent. When she once tried to force him out of the house during an argument, he de-escalated the situation by holding back her hands.[/b]

She is not a reliable observer if she thinks this incident is normal or that physically holding her hands isn't being violent. They both were being violent.

The article is really offensive to the victim's families because it is focusing on the killer's family who still are able to talk to him. The article states

[i]Through it all, they have tried to reconcile the son and brother they loved — and still do — [b]with the man depicted by prosecutors and the police[/b], the man who pleaded guilty to killing four young people with no apparent motive.

When he entered the guilty plea in July, his parents attended, with his mother sobbing in the front row.[/i]

It is ridiculous to phrase it this way- "depicted by" - NO. He is a cold blooded murderer.  He plead guilty to killing 4 people in cold blood. He entered a bedroom and killed two 21 year old college students, then encountered a third 20 year old female on the stairway and killed her too. Instead of leaving he entered another bedroom and killed a 20 year old sleeping college student.

Why write an article that his mother cried in the front row or his sister was with her dad who had heart problems? Why write that the sister had given this cold blooded killer something to bring him comfort during sentencing when victims are giving impact statements. Instead of the focus of him listening to the pain he caused his sister is pleased she has gave him a drawing of a "a heart surrounded by vibrant colors that she herself had drawn for her brother. Even if she could not be there in person, she said, she wanted him to know that he was loved."  And she is so pleased she recreated it for the article and there is a picture of it.

Really the sister should have not said anything or agreed to have been interviewed. 
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You sound like someone who has extremely limited life experience.

Do you actually think a pair of siblings getting into an argument and one of them trying to push the other out of the house to get them to leave is an unusual occurrence? I guarantee you there are thousands of people who have had that exact experience before. Is it totally functional behavior? No, but most people are not totally functional. Most people have at least some issues. Most families fight sometimes. If you don't understand this, you are incredibly sheltered and simply don't know very many people.

And the reason they wrote the story is because it's part of the narrative. It's not an article that redeems Brian or denies he killed these women. In fact it repeatedly affirms that he is the killer, and his sister at no point denies that he deserves to be in prison for it.

People still don't understand what happened. We want to understand, because it seems so senseless. There was no trial, and no one has ever explained a motive or some sequence of events that might make sense of what happened. Why did Brian kill these people? We don't know. So here is an article where his sister talks about his background prior to the murders. It is helpful in some ways (he was troubled, he had a drug problem, he'd stolen before, they fought on occasion, he could be really difficult) and not in others (he wasn't violent, he'd seemed better recently, they viewed him being in a PhD program as a step in the right direction, he didn't seem any different than his normal during that holiday). It's frustrating! We want it to be clear. We want an explanation. We want a lesson we can apply to our own lives so that we can prevent this horrible crime from happening in our families, or to us, or to people we love.

But the truth is we still have more questions than answers. That's not the sister's fault. In fact she probably wants those answers even more than you do. But she doesn't have them, and you can't be angry at her for that.[/quote]

Maybe I've watched too many movies, but the criminology program always looked like a *huge* red flag here, too. Demonstrates a strong interest in crime.[/quote]

Sure, after the fact when you know he's the murderer. But lots of people go into criminology for all kinds of reasons. Even the bad reasons are usually not "because I want to commit crimes."

When I was in college I was a psych major and had a bit of an interest in criminology and liked the idea of becoming like an FBI profiler. I actually got a job with campus police and was taking classes in deviant behavior. And in doing that I realized I didn't want to surround myself with that information and those ideas, and my interest had been based in liking psychological thrillers and I hadn't really thought through what the reality was like and how sad and terrible these cases are. I wound up turning down the campus police job and switching my major and now I do statistical analysis of professional services markets. I've never hurt anyone and don't even like the site of blood.[/quote]

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