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Folk Psychology Is Here To Stay

After more than 2000 years, folk psychology appears as though it is here to stay, nonetheless there are a number of philosophers, psychologists and the like who argue that folk psychology is a theory, and that that theory is false. However these people seem to jump rather quickly to this conclusion and upon closer inspection their arguments fall apart.

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posted by Ewan Williams
January 29, 2010

Danny ‘The Gainesville Ripper’ Rolling

Rolling profileDanny Harold Rolling was born on May 26th, 1954 in Shreveport, Louisiana he was the eldest of two boys to father James Rolling and his wife Claudia. His father was a police officer who quite obviously should not have been; he regularly beat both his sons and supplemented these beatings with bondage and blindfolds as punishment for indiscretions.

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posted by Ewan Williams
January 2, 2010

Adolfo and His Cauldron of Blood

Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo was born in Miami on November 1, 1962. He was the younger of two sons to a teenage Cuban immigrant and was still an infant when his father died. Having been widowed, the family moved to Puerto Rico where Adolfo’s mother quickly found a new man and remarried. Shortly after he was baptised Roman Catholic and even served as an altar boy for a time, supposedly accepting the standards of the Roman Catholic faith. When he was 10 the family moved back to Miami and a year later he would lose his stepfather also; but to their advantage this left them well off financially.

Adolfo de Jesus Costanzo

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posted by Ewan Williams
November 8, 2009

Website Expansion

For those of you that frequent our site, it will come as no surprise to you that we have expanded the articles we were/are planning to write. We had always planned on running two individual websites – one dedicated to case files and forensics (lifetakers.com) and one dedicated to the psychology of killers and general abnormal psychological disorders (bloodsoaked-memories.com). This has proved harder to do than expected; in saying that, we have decided to merge both websites as we hadn’t even begun adding content to the second, and given the amount of time, effort, money and coding/design involved in ‘re-inventing the wheel’ we have decided to simply alter this website slightly and start adding the content here instead.

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posted by Ewan Williams
October 21, 2009

Death Penalty Racial Bias?

I used to be all for the death penalty – i figured that the legal system did such a great job that never in my wildest dreams would innocent people be sent to prison, let alone be sentenced to death. Naive, i know, but i was young, misinformed and maybe even in a little bit of denial? But these days, although i’m still happy to see certain offenders ‘get whats coming to them’ i’m a lot more cautious. Cases such as the highly controversial ‘West Memphis Three’ as well as other cases i’ve read about over the past few years where death row inmates have been exonerated after years on death row have made me start questioning the criminal justice systems effectiveness for extraditing the truth.

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posted by Ewan Williams
October 4, 2009

Six Death Sentences To One Defendant, Making a Point Maybe?

36 year old Dale Hausner has already been sentenced to six… yes that’s right, six, death sentences for his instigator role in the 14 month killing spree in Phoenix. Said spree left 6 people dead and 19 others injured with the victims including pedestrians, cyclists, dogs and even horses but this week co-defendant Samuel Dietman, who is the primary witness against Hausner and who has pleaded guilty to sometimes joining him on the crimes is pleading for leniency, hoping to avoid the death penalty.

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posted by Ewan Williams
August 5, 2009

Joseph 'The Kimberley Killer' Schwab

Back in 1987 an individual dubbed ‘The Kimberley Killer’ by the media (due to the location the crimes were being committed) was on the loose murdering people in Western Australia and the Northern Territory’s outback. In total he killed only 5 people but did so more in an extended ‘spree killing’ style.

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posted by Ewan Williams
August 3, 2009

The Uiryeong Massacre

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For a reason that i have been unable to put a finger on, six of the top seventeen cases of murder/mass murder/serial killing have taken place in Asian countries (China, Japan, Korea). This could be due to any number of reasons, the first one that comes to mind is population size, but i’ve not done any research into this so it is simply guess work at the moment.

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posted by Ewan Williams
July 30, 2009

Mode Of Execution

There still appears to be some discrepancies throughout the USA as to the method of execution used with three States still choosing to use firing squad – seems like a strange choice but i guess for their sake it is probably one of the more simple ones to utilise (the others being lethal injection, lethal gas, electrocution and hanging, which can be seen in the below graph)

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