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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of you going on and on about the family have made a compelling case that the family should have known.  And many of you are stating things that are outright wrong.

Don't quit your day jobs, folks.  You suck at this.[/quote]

I feel like people do this so they can feel control over these uncommon, headline grabbing incidents and tell themselves it could never happen to them.  This killer was a heroin addict, so not particularly unforseen that he might become violent under the right conditions, but in other cases, the killer is just a run of the mill misfit or loser.[/quote]

That's 100% why they do it. That's the appeal of true crime I think. It's a way of exercising control. This thread is about tearing apart the killer's family, arguing "well if it were me I would have known, I would have figured it out, I would have turned him in." But you see the same commentary around victims often. Often victims are portrayed as stupid or naive or too trusting, or people fixate on the fact that someone was drinking or had been in bad relationships before or was uneducated. Anything to other the victim and keep themselves from thinking it could happen to them.

Honestly even with the heroine addiction, I think this case really freaks people out because it is so random. There's no evidence Brian had ever directly interacted with the victims before. There is a very strong desire to find an explanation, which I think is why people are very eager to point to the family and say they missed something, or they covered it up, or they caused Brian to be the kind of person who did this. Because if we had an explanation like that, then we don't have to wrestle with the idea that sometimes people just do horrible, heinous things without any real warning.[/quote]

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