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“Possible narcissism and lots of emotions I'm not even done listening yet. The reporter has a great voice and does a good job with her part. A couple of things stand out to me as a mental health professional. One is that, even while behind bars, this guy seems to need to set him up as the prison hero. Other people feed into this by talking about how he is doing so much to help everyone. I fully acknowledge that we get very limited information, but just based on what is shared in this podcast, I'm guessing he loved being so important. He could do things with computers… He could speak multiple languages… He taught all kinds of classes… He kind of had a captive audience where he could feed his needs for admiration and to be the smartest guy in the room, or in the prison. He was indulged a lot of ways and continued to blame Jordan, stress, the dad who stood up for him in court and at parole hearings, and only took responsibility when it seemed like it would help his case to do so. Meanwhile, the families are devastated. I don't criticize anyone for being emotional and expressive about feelings in situations like this, but there was a lot of it throughout the podcast from the sisters and the wife. They are obviously vulnerable and the man who killed their loved ones is certainly capable of taking advantage of those vulnerabilities. I don't think I've heard so much crying in any other podcast, and again, I say that with complete respect for his victims. It speaks to their pain. I understand the strong religious convictions and the feeling that this ability to forgive came from God and I do not question that. I am just concerned that their emotions were manipulated by someone very good at doing exactly that. I was not there, obviously, but nothing in his letter or that was recounted from their meeting with him anything other than cliché and what you would expect someone to say who is trying to seem as though they regret what they did. Just a year and two has sentence, he was already trying to get out. He did not take responsibility at that time and distanced himself from his crimes with his language about "what happened. " how in the world this conversation could have even been entertained so soon into his sentence is completely beyond me. If he was delusional, had not slept or had anything to be under the influence of substances, experiencing paranoia, or whatever, you would think those things would've been focused on more at trial or that a defense would have been made that he was experiencing some level of mental illness at the time of his crimes. That did not happen. it certainly seems he displays traits of entitlement and narcissism and I am concerned that he was simply good at making other people believe he was something other than what he truly was. He retained his ego and was able to get even more of what he wanted when he apologized to the families and ultimately had his apologies and statements of regret accepted by them. Ultimately, the opinions of these women and their families are the ones that matter the most, and if going through all this in the ways that they have has brought them some peace and healing, then I suppose that is what is important.”Read full review »
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United States of America ·
05/23/24
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