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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think what's surprising me about this discussion, and the NYT article, is that no one is talking about his long history of harassing and stalking women on campus.

Numerous women, including his own professors, tried to intervene but there was never quite enough evidence to act.

To me, that's a lot more interesting and worth exploring than the family's insistence he was autistic.

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You are correct, I remember back when I read up on this case, that he had been banned from a bar for making female customers or the servers uncomfortable (can't remember if this was in PA or WA). Also, he was a TA at WSU and his students said he was grading them unfairly and I heard complaints were also coming in to where he was about to lose the TA position, or had been notified he was going to lose it (which I thought might have triggered the crime). I think he was getting rejected socially, getting banned from bars, his current PhD program was starting to have issues with his behavior.

But this was at his new campus. I don't remember any problems surfacing from his old campus, where 2 very honored female professors thought quite highly of him. And his family would know none of this. And WSU wasn't sending this info to the serial killer expert at DeSales and asking if she thought there was a concern.

I also think he was probably a voyeur. I think he targeted in on that house with so many windows in view from the street. It had a hidden back area where it was easy to park without being noticed and slip onto the back deck with access to the kitchen. It was a party house and I would not be shocked if he had wandered in during a crowded party where no one noticed him.

From his family's view, it was probably ASD or earlier drug use. I wouldn't be shocked if Schizophrenia was entering the picture, but his parents wouldn't have experience in suspecting that was affecting him. [/quote]

You obviously don’t have a family member like this. There are a lot of weird interactions, delusions, strange texts, ranting phone calls, angry emails, they don’t put on a mask around family. This is who they are all the time.[/quote]
Oh for goodness sake, my adult son was in a psych facility for over a month in his 20s and dx with some combo of BPD and schizophrenia (Psychiatrist said it didn't matter because the medication at that point would be similar). He went through a prior period where he wouldn't talk to me or his dad because we "triggered" him  (his Dad voted for Trump in 2016 and I worked for the "military industrial complex"). He got his BS and MS in a STEM field, but his posts on Facebook were unintelligible to me. But until this point, I would have put the chances of Sz at 0. His full symptoms didn't emerge until late 20s, which is common.

I also have a sister who I believe has undiagnosed Paranoid Sz. She thought people were following her, servers were bugging her watch to listen to her and accused her husband of being the antichrist. I put her in the rear view mirror 30 years ago, and haven't looked back (for my safety).

I also have a cousin whose 19yo son robbed a customer in a gas station parking lot and the customer shot and killed him. It was a big defense case and eventually they decided not to charge the customer with murder. My cousin and his kids have never been "functional".

I occasionally get asked how I emerged from all this family dysfunction to get 3 STEM degrees and have a successful career with the same employer (yes, defense related). I don't know, but when I heard professionals tell me my son had a psychotic break and thought he was on another planet, etc, etc, I listened. But up until that point, he was just quirky, odd, tons of friends, but never violent and if a murder had happened at his college, I would never have suspected it might be him.

I still think at the time of the murder, Brian's family was seeing ex-addict who was probably ASD. [/quote]

That must have been incredibly hard-I hope your son is doing better. [/quote]
He is and he isn't. Of course he stopped the psych meds after 6 months because they made him lethargic and gain a lot of weight.

In 2020, he moved in with his Dad and quit working due to obsession with catching Covid. He has never returned to a professional job in his STEM field.

He works part-time at a coffee shop and walks dogs for minimum pay. He fully realizes it's because he doesn't need to pay rent. And as his dad got a cancer dx, the tables have turned and he is probably helping Dad more than Dad is helping him.

But the best news is he has not had another psychotic breakdown. I believe it's possible pot caused the first one, as did the psychiatrist doc at the mental hospital. She said it can be either using pot to manage emerging Sz symptoms, or it's possible the pot caused the psychotic break, that was either lurking inside him, or just mimicked Sz. I fully expected another episode, but it hasn't happened after 6 years (he quit pot). I also think if he were financially on his own, the stress might lead to more breaks. He is still very social, very active in local social issues and is a kind and gentle person. Still quirky and odd, but with a great sense of humor.

But if he were accused of murder, I bet our past would get picked apart. We should have realized he was delusional when he said he had the secret to world peace if only everyone would hold up a peace sign at the same time (well yeah, he was delusional about that). And why hasn't he had a long term girlfriend (or boyfriend)? We should have realized he was stalking women, and on and on. All we know is what we know and we do our best as parents of a troubled, but hopefully stable and improving adult child.[/quote]

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