The Chicago Sun-Times ran an interesting profile of the Tinley Park killer recently. The paper quotes Greg McCrary, a Florida professor of forensic psychology and former FBI profiler, as saying, “He doesn’t want to go back [to jail], but instead of leading a law-abiding life, he’s decided the way to stay out of jail is to leave no witnesses.”
 
People like this, McCrary says, “don’t think they deserve to be locked up for the things they have done, and they hold it against society when they are - they think only of themselves and are incapable of considering others… They think they’ve been mistreated by society.”
 
A couple of months ago I saw the Oscar-nominated film, No Country For Old Men. I thought that the killer in the film, Anton Chigurh, was the most horrifying movie monster I had ever seen. The moment that terrified me most was when Chigurh was about to kill the main character’s wife, Carla Jean:
 
Carla Jean Moss: You don’t have to do this.
Anton Chigurh: [smiles] Everybody says that.
 
I comforted myself that this was just a movie. But every day, every paper that I read, convinces me that real life is a whole lot more terrifying than celluloid.