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Dan L. Hollifield
Detective Sergeant
Username: Vila

Post Number: 91
Registered: 2-2003

Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 10:50 pm:

Consider if you will, for the plot of a hypothetical story, therein: what steps would it take to turn an average person on the street into a serial killer? How would their life go? How would they think? How would they talk? How would they act? How would they slide from normalcy into madness? Setting aside the classical fiction on tjhe subject, what have we learned about JTR than can be applied to fiction?

Here's hoping this sparks a debate.

Vila

"Extremely difficult. Virtually impossible... However, it should only take me ten minutes or so."

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