Serial killer shoots son of criminal profiler

As it has been known since last month, my son Bryan Chevalier was shot twice in the chest by a serial killer. Because of my son's quick and level-headed thinking during such a dangerous crisis, he identified the purp., and called 911.

Because of all the media making false or misleading statements concerning my son, I have been reluctant to post what has been going on with my son.
The good news is he will live and continue fron age 14 with a renewed sence of faith in God and the abilities of trained law enforcement professionals.

Plano police working with Frisco police and the FBI found log-books and notes about his planning to be the worlds greatest serial killer.

The week before, he missed an old man in his home when trying to kill him.


The "suspect" is only 16 years old Asian and has the textbook past behaviour traits. Collin county DA has been granted a motion to try him as an adult.

Please everyone, keep praying for my boy Bryan.

Thank you.

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Make that one big, low-paying, stressful, perpetually dangerous party

It seems no matter where I am, the press finds me. This time about more criminal activity involving the financial underworlds terrible management of their own financuial activities besides not filing with the IRS (being the worst since Al Capon was taken down by the IRS when all others could not, not even Elliet Ness) actions.
Yes it IS very "hard" to beleive that the criminal underword does a WORSE job on its books that our own United States Government.

Below is the entire article.

Make that one big, low-paying, stressful, perpetually dangerous party
Like the slain bikers, most criminals are unfamiliar with the glamorous life
Apr. 16, 2006. 01:00 AM
CHRISTOPHER HUTSUL
TORONTO STAR

According to his online dating profile, Jamie Flanz was a CEO. In real life, the 37-year-old's fortunes were not so fetching. Flanz was a tow truck driver and a prospective Bandidos member — an association that led to his slaying last week.

Though he might have imagined himself as a high-rolling executive, his was not a life of riches. Nor was it for the other seven men who died as part of what was described as the Bandidos' brutal "internal cleansing."
One victim was a 41-year-old man who lived with his parents. Another lived in his truck. They all depended on full-time jobs to get by.
And they all met a gruesome fate.

This meagre existence counters the glamorized perception of those who choose a life of crime over the plebeian existence of the masses. We imagine criminals, divested of the taxes, 40-hour work weeks and mortgages that saddle the common person, cruising along Easy Street, flush with cash and hard drugs, and having wild sex.
The profiles of the eight men who died should prove, once and for all, that crime doesn't pay.

"We have this idea that these guys that work outside the system, maybe they've got it right, maybe these people are having a better life than the guy doing 9 to 5 — but most criminals live in poverty," says Cecil Greek, a professor of criminology at Florida State University.
The image of the glamorous criminal is rampant in pop culture. Take for instance, the stylish lifestyles of the well-dressed bank thieves in the revamped Ocean's 11 franchise. Hip-hop stars of the gangsta ilk are seen posing with — in addition to beautiful women and luxury cars — mountains of cash.
On one of his album sleeves, the rapper 50 Cent poses with a cash-counting machine.
Such images paint an inaccurate picture of the career criminal's lifestyle; Greek says rich criminals are "extremely rare."
The subject was raised last year in Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's bestselling book Freakonomics. In a chapter called "Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?" the authors described a drug-dealing operation as a bloated, inefficient organization. There were a few wealthy members at the top and a slew of underpaid minions at the bottom. They compared the gang's organizational structure to that of McDonald's.
`There's sleep deprivation, a loss
of appetite, you end up having paranoia to such a degree that you can't even function as a criminal any more.'
"The answer to the original question... is that, except for the top cats, (the dealers) don't make much money," wrote Levitt and Dubner. "They had no choice but to live with their mothers. For every big earner, there were hundreds more just scraping along."
"People aren't getting rich because there are too many people involved," says Chevalier. "There are payments to keep people quiet, there are cops to pay, security guards to pay, you have to pay the people who arranged the selling of the merchandise... There's not a whole lot of people getting rich."
Chevalier also points out that goods are devalued in an underground economy. The value of, say, a diamond priced at $10,000 in a store takes on a cash value of $2,000 on the streets.
But even if more money were flowing into the hands of criminals and gangsters, they probably wouldn't know what to do with it.
It turns out criminals have poor money-management skills. The Oregon Mail Tribune reported in 2001 that only seven per cent of inmates in Oregon prisons have more than $200 in their bank accounts.
"They're not people who defer gratification in the first place," says Greek. "The money those people make, they just go spend it. It's not like they're investing in a nest egg and at the age of 40 they're going to go live in Tahiti. They don't have long-term goals like that.
"People doing robberies are basically living from one robbery to the next. They may go out and do a ton of robberies over a weekend, then they don't have to do any for a month and a half. But they know that when the money's gone, they'll have to go do some more robberies. That's as far ahead as it's planned."
As demonstrated by last week's massacre, financial instability is only one concern for a career criminal. They also face a constant threat from the police and, often, from other criminals, sometimes from within their own clan, as was the case with the Bandidos.
What people on the right side of the law might perceive as a romantic, rogue lifestyle is actually a rueful existence.
"They go through psychological trauma knowing what they've done to hurt people," says Chevalier "They start envisioning those things happening to them. They don't trust anyone and anything.
"That makes a great afternoon movie, but in real life the human mind cannot take that kind of heightened sensitivity and alertness and awareness all the time. There's sleep deprivation, a loss of appetite, you end up having paranoia to such a degree that you can't even function as a criminal any more."
Additional articles by Christopher Hutsul

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Its been a long, hard road I have traveled with much more to go...

Sorry for my long absence but the chemo and radiation really wiped me out and I had a few close calls.

I wish to thanks my CAP comrades in arms for sending all the cards, the visitations and the massive prayers.

It was because of your efforts and the lord Jesus Christ hearing those prayers that I am still alive today.

I have also been informed that an enemy to me is now dead. It is written that the Lord will put before you they enemies at your feet. Well it looks like that is what has happened.

While in the hospital I had a lot of time to "kill" if you will forgive the pun. Book #5 is almost finished. This book discuses the events of my life.
One lesson of life that I explored in my book is that when you are on top, or the media chooses to acknowledge you for a job well done, or a organization wants you to lead them, there is ALWAYS one in hiding that gets his or her kicks by trying to bring you down.

One such person (J.P.) of many, posted 6 web pages twisting my life into such fiction that it could have made the movie of the week!

Only jealous, self-serving cowards do such a thing. It is sad but when such a man does a thing like that, he must be prepared for the inevitable (looking into their own sad, twisted, illegal past and all the people they used along the way).

Well, I am glad to be back and for those jealous idiots reading this, please take a xanax!

See you students around the campus soon.

doc


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Today is one of my son's birthday. Alhough she (my X-wife) keeps moving and changing her telephone # and has never reported that data to me as required in the final divorce documents so I can't contact my son, I want all that read this message to pray.
Pray that my son know's I love and miss him. And maybe, just maybe an angel will wishper that into his ear and he will pick up a telephone and call me.

a sad Dad

doc



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Duncan's history, writings back theories on disorders

During hospital and physical therapy sessions, I managed to write this little peice and it was picked up by the Associated Press from my local newspaper. Let me know what you think.
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By Dr. Dennis H. Chevalier, PhD, FIPC, CPPP
*from the Star Telegram* and picked up by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

For months, anyone could follow the epic struggle in the mind of Joseph Edward Duncan III -- live, on the Internet.

"It is a battle between me and my demons," Duncan wrote in his Web log on April 24. "I'm afraid, very afraid. If they win then a lot of people will be badly hurt."
Three weeks later the demons won, authorities say.
The toll? Three members of an Idaho family bludgeoned to death. Two children dragged to a remote part of Montana, where both were sexually molested and the 9-year-old boy was murdered.

It's hard to conceive a heart black enough to commit such evil acts. But researchers are beginning to understand how another organ, the brain, can conjure the demons that haunt Duncan and other violent sexual predators.
Many, perhaps most, dangerous sexual predators appear to possess one or more brain abnormalities that predispose them to their extreme criminal behavior. Those defects can be caused by traumatic childhood experiences, genetics or events that happen as a person's brain develops in the womb before birth.
An unhappy upbringing certainly increases a boy's chances of growing up to be a violent sex offender. But if an unhappy childhood were all it took to create a sadistic pedophile, every town in the United States would live under perpetual Amber Alert.
Long before the carnage at the Groene home in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Duncan had unleashed his demons on the world. In 1980, at the age of 17, he earned a 20-year prison sentence for raping and torturing a 14-year-old boy at gunpoint. After his arrest for that crime, he told authorities that he had raped 13 boys by the time he was 16. And authorities now believe that while free on parole in 1997, Duncan kidnapped, raped and murdered a 10-year-old boy in Southern California.
"His preoccupation with deviant sexual fantasies of one kind or another date back to the age of 12," one therapist wrote after evaluating Duncan in 1982. "Mr. Duncan continues to conform to the statutory definition of a sexual psychopath."

Psychopathy

Psychopathy is a personality disorder that afflicts a tiny fraction of the general public, but about 25 percent of the prison population. Psychopaths are impulsive and self-centered, with little capacity for guilt, fear or remorse. They take great pleasure in manipulating and exploiting other people to get what they want and tend to live disorganized, nomadic lives on society's fringes.
"Psychopaths do know right from wrong; they can tell you right from wrong. They just don't care," said Kent Kiehl, a psychiatrist at the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center in Hartford, Conn.
Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer, was the perfect picture of a psychopath during recent televised court appearances. His emotionless recollection in June of murdering 10 people illustrated a complete incapacity for guilt or remorse.
Kiehl's research suggests that psychopaths have abnormalities in the paralimbic system, a far-flung network of brain structures associated with emotion and emotional memories.
People with brain damage in one component of the paralimbic system, the orbitofrontral cortex, often behave impulsively and selfishly. When epilepsy causes damage to the anterior temporal lobe -- another element of the system -- the result can be inappropriate sexual behavior, problems maintaining personal relationships and a lack of empathy.
And damage to the amygdala, a part of the paralimbic system related to emotional memory and perception, can render people cold and fearless.
Experiments indicate that psychopaths have decreased brain activity in all of those regions. Now Kiehl and his colleagues want to know why.
"Most likely, as with most disorders, there's multiple pathways," Kiehl said.
For example, abuse or stress during childhood could affect how the paralimbic system develops. Brain damage because of a head injury might induce psychopathic behavior.
But genes almost certainly play a role. A recent study of 7-year-olds by British researchers found that if one in a pair of twins has psychopathic tendencies -- especially a callous and unemotional personality -- the other is more likely to share those qualities, as long as the two are identical rather than fraternal.
That suggests a hereditary element because identical twins are genetically identical; fraternal twins share only half of their genes.
Some psychologists believe that psychopathy is not so much a disease as an evolutionary artifact. During the millennia of human history before there were criminal justice systems and written records, they say, a small number of psychopaths could lie, cheat and steal their way to success. As long as these deviants remained a small, marginal element of society, people of good conscience might not notice their habitual transgressions.
In a 1995 paper, the late sociobiologist Linda Mealey argued that evolution created two types of psychopaths. The first is purely genetic, born without the capacity for normal human emotion. No matter what, such individuals will go through life with no regard for society's rules or the consequences of their actions.
The other type of psychopathy is also genetic. But it is only produced in the kind of stressful or chaotic social environment where following the rules does a person no good.
If Duncan ever did have a chance to become a well-balanced individual, he lost it early. Court records indicate that his family moved constantly because of his father's military career. His parents fought incessantly and he rarely, if ever, made friends. He was often teased by his peers. By his own admission, Duncan committed his first sexual assault at the age of 12. The victim was a 5-year-old boy.
Pedophilia
How could Duncan have developed his deviant sexual attraction at such a young age?
Like psychopathy, pedophilia appears to originate in a number of ways. But just as the various elements of psychopathy all appear to relate to the paralimbic system, the various paths to pedophilia all seem to pass through a particular part of the brain.
Located just above the ears, the temporal lobe is involved in face and object recognition, musical ability, personality and sexual behavior. If epilepsy or some other condition causes damage to the temporal lobe, a person can become sexually attracted to inappropriate stimuli, even inanimate objects.
"They have all kinds of deviant behaviors," said Igor Galynker, a psychiatrist at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.
Working with several colleagues, Galynker has performed brain scans on 22 pedophiles and found that they had below-normal activity in the temporal lobe. Other studies have found a similar pattern. And medical journals describe rare cases of men who began molesting children when tumors invaded the same part of their brains; when the tumors were removed, their pedophilia subsided.
"There's something different about the brains of pedophiles," said Vernon Quinsey, a psychologist at Queen's University in Canada. "But what exactly it is, it's hard to say so far."
The temporal lobe goes through a transformation as a boy's interest in sex develops during puberty. Perhaps the experience of being molested derails or forestalls that transformation in some way, which might explain why about 10 percent of the boys who report being sexually abused as children grow up to become pedophiles themselves.
But Quinsey believes it is more likely the tendency toward pedophilia arises even before birth. Some researchers have proposed that male homosexuality can result if the mother's immune system attacks her son's cells in utero, disrupting the process that gradually differentiates male from female brains.
"We think that some similar mechanism might also relate to pedophilia," Quinsey said.
That doesn't make the two conditions the same, however. According to Quinsey's theory, the brains of homosexual men end up with a complete set of functioning components for sexual behavior, albeit a combination of male and female elements.
But in pedophiles, Quinsey believes, the mother's immune system causes a specific defect in one of the components that guides sexual behavior.
Pedophiles appear to have a malfunction in whatever brain circuitry it is that causes men to seek partners in the optimum age group for successful reproduction. Over evolutionary history, that set of subconscious instructions would have directed most men to partners in the Playboy centerfold demographic -- robust and young, but sexually mature.
Quinsey proposes that pedophiles have the part of the apparatus that codes for robustness and youth -- but they lack the requirement for sexual maturity. So they focus their sexual energies on children.
Quinsey's hypothesis is beyond the ability of current science to test. But whatever it is about their brains that attracts pedophiles to children, it is clear they have no choice in the matter, said Fred Berlin, founder of the Sexual Disorders Clinic at Johns Hopkins University.
"These are not people choosing simply to experience an alternative state of mind," Berlin said.

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Dennis did a superb job on the Cullen story just as he did previously with the one on Swango. I do wish that more focus would be brought onto the financial incentives to allow twisted minds like Cullen in the medical field but until people understand why it is allowed there isn't much that will change. Public pressure is the only way that this type of thing will be stopped or at least slowed down.
Cullen just got sloppy and as Dennis has pointed out these type of people that are focused on killing for whatever twisted reason are easily manipulated by others that have their own agendas going on. If an unethical administration is involved, (and there are many in this
country) for the individuals that wants to kill and for the institution that is cutting corners, it is a win, win situation. For the public it is a cruel act of betrayal and a classic presentation of pure evil at work.
If Cullen had not made the mistake of killing a priest he probably would still be racking up complaints to the police from the public while continuing to work in the same field. It is very unlikely that anyone in law enforcement would have been inclined to stop him if not for that.
Institutions of this type are very large taxpayers and all government agencies rely on taxes one way or another. Institutions of this type are also very large contributors to elected officials and often those same elected officials will go out of their way to have everyone turn their heads away from serious crime and simply pretend it is not happening.
As Dennis has pointed out, Cullen's list is going to grow but the focus should also be on who knowingly allowed him to continue and who aided him by covering up his actions.
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Vickie Travis
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Way to go, Dr. C.!

Debi

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I am still here Debra and have just had a really busy year. This coming week we are hosting Rob Messenger, Member of Parliament from Queensland, Australia. Rob will be speaking on the Jayant Patel matter. I hope by Tuesday that Patel is in custody in Queensland. I believe that if there is to be any justice brought for his actions that it will be conducted in Queensland. In the U.S. his behavior is openly condoned and here the most he will get is a sullied name. The web promo is at:
http://www.kaiserpapers.info/healthcarewarriors.html
and my web blog (which I am still pretty new at making) is at:
http://kaiserpapersblog.blogspot.com/
I also would like to mention that David Russell, from Bundaberg who is on this list has been of invaluable assistance in putting this program together for the world. We are going to have an opportunity to hear the entire story as it actually happened instead of the bits and pieces that the press has brought out to date.
I am also extremely grateful for the Queensland Parliament in realizing that it is just as important to investigate the source that would condone such behavior. Patel did it for money and money only. Other people profited off of his actions and that is why his behavior was condoned. Operations without anesthesia to save on the cost of the anesthesiologist are cruel. Medical experiments on terminal patients without their consent is evil and believe it or not he actually did worse than that. Pulling the tubes on government funded patients to make room for cash paying customers is really twisted thinking.
Administrators that knowingly allow such behavior to get a bonus at the end of the year for coming in under budget are evil.
I believe that the physicians in the United States, including the State of New York and Kaiser Permanente in Oregon who all wrote glowing letters of recommendation for this man while knowing full well what he had already done here should also be held accountable and in a manner that is far more serious than a letter of reprimand that will be hidden in a file out of public sight.
Cullen and Patel are similar cases in the fact that it was administrators and specific individuals that because of their own greed to personally profit off of the suffering of the ill allowed this to happen. There are hundreds of Cullen's and Patel's running around in this world today and getting away with it for the same reasons. Both individuals are egoistic - what I call Shah mentality. They simply believe that they are right in their actions and everyone else can suffer with their decisions. They are so focused (again Dennis taught us this) on their own actions that they are very easily taken advantage of by unethical individuals that steer them in the direction they want.
Australia is examining and actually modifying their system to prevent this from happening again. They are looking at the true source of the problem. Patel was not the first to be caught just the one that got the press.
The United States could care less if this happens or not here and so Patel's actions here are considered within the norm by the applicable boards. They simply don't want all the other's working with Patel type methods examined. My statement regarding the condonation by the U.S. is verifiable and well documented. The reasons of course are again for financial gain.
Coming in under budget is financially rewarding for administrators. In the U.S. killing off the expensive to treat and long term patient is considered one less government funded patient to have to pay for by CMS and closed system HMO's. The system is good only for quick fixes and those that do not drain the financial resources. Everyone else should consider other means of survival for long term or expensive to treat conditions rather than blindly trusting the currently intact systems.
Patel's licenses were only removed in the States after Queensland made his actions public. If Patel is not brought to justice and permanently stopped now, I pity the next country that he sets up shop in.
Rob Messenger when I last spoke with him wanted a reward put out for the return of Patel. I agree that this is probably the most productive way to get him back to Queensland. Any other conventional legal method is only going to drag this matter out forever. Patel knows full well that the legal system here will protect him. Eventually the cost to the taxpayers for the extra protection this man will need in this country is also going to be counterproductive and that in itself is a crime. There is no question that this man committed these acts. That is well documented in two states and two countries. It has been proven in the U.S. and ruled by the two involved boards. If Patel fights the extradition process in this country and we openly allow harboring a wanted criminal we will be inadvertently telling the world we condone such behavior and that does not say much in the way of good about this country.
I encourage all members of the public to call in during this program. I do not yet know the overseas call in numbers but I do know that in the U.S. on the H2H website the toll free lines are listed.

- Vickie




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Great work, but so long for the conformation.

GW

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goodonya

Good Job Dennis! I think David would say "goodonya
Debra Storch


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5 more murder charges for Cullen

I was invited in 2004 to talk about Charles Cullen on Highway to Health w/Vickie Travis in which I said there was enough evidence to lead to other convictions.
Now it seems that is going to happen.

5 more murder charges for Cullen
Serial killer will face latest accusations Monday in New Jersey.
By Scott Kraus
and Ann Wlazelek Of The Morning Call ''Sometimes, all you can say is something will occur,'' Lember said. ''There will be an appearance.''
Hunterdon Medical Center, where Cullen once received an appre
Serial killer Charles Cullen on Monday will be charged with five more murders, this time at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, N.J., a source familiar with the investigation says.
They will bring to 29 the number of murders Cullen has been charged with committing during his 16-year nursing career in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
He also has been charged with five attempted murders.
Cullen, 45, formerly of Bethlehem, worked at Hunterdon from April 1994 to October 1996, but initially did not recall giving anyone an injection of lethal doses of medicine there.
First Assistant Hunterdon County Prosecutor Stephen Lember said Friday that Cullen would appear before Superior Court Judge Roger Mahon at 9 a.m.
Monday. He would not say why.
''On Monday morning in our court, there will be a court appearance and a court event involving Mr. Cullen. That is all I am at liberty to say,''
Lember said, adding if Cullen would be entering a guilty plea, it would be unethical to talk about it in advance.
Copyright © 2005, The Morning Call
Dr. C


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I am back

Hey sports fans, I am in Chemotherapy now for the next 2 years but I am in my first remission.

Thanks for all the email and snail mail, it really helped me during those times when it was really hard to hang on.

I am working on a new 3rd book on genetic predisposing of sexual predators. More on that later.

Until next time America...


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Yahell magazine article published

Place your mouse over the cover of Yahell and the link that appears is where it is published.

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Sorry for the very long absence

To all the so very kind of this list about my contracting AML-M3 or Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia which is common amongst Gulf war vets.

You have been so kind and have had such a positive effect on me

Please keep sending the jokes and prayers for me. I need all the help I can get!

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

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New book in the works

Check it out.

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The SETI@home program notified us that we had 10,033 WU completed. 18 candidate signals (the highest for a single user so far).


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The New underground Railroad: Healthcare warriors

Vickie Travis has published a fantastic book. I am one of the photos on the cover and am a criminal profiler featured in the book exposing medical serial killers. You can see her book cover and mine at my website.

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Ricin Scare Grips Washington
The deadly poison Ricin has been found in Senate offices, and investigators are looking into another white powder found in a Connecticut mailroom. Tonight on "Tech Live," see how the substances are tested, and how investigators hope to track down the culprit.

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Cannibal Spared Life Sentence in Gory Trial
Reuters - Fri Jan 30,10:51 AM ET
A German cannibal was convicted of manslaughter but not murder Friday for killing and eating a man who had asked to die, and he was sentenced to eight and a half years in jail.


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To all that "think they know who Dr. Chevalier is"

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Talkshow

I really enjoyed being on the Vickie Travis show on Highway 2 Health. Everyone should check her show out!


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Class is out! What a class!

Wow, what a time. Total immersion in psychology and criminology.
Here are the stats:

20 students--

17 passed
7 made an A
5 made a B
4 made a C
1 made a D

2 drop outs
1 failed

Way to class #401-1



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international radio talk show

I will be appearing on Highway 2 Health, an international radio talk show via internet about the one of the most notorious Doctor murderers of our time. Dr. Michale Swango December 29th, 2003 6pm.

Be sure to tune in to Vickie Travis and I about this notorius killer of over 60 medical murders and how he used the system to help him get away with it.



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Thursday, December 11, 2003

Sheriff is rebuked over Green River remark

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF

King County Council budget leaders gave Sheriff Dave Reichert a long and angry verbal flailing yesterday for accusing unnamed county officials of believing that victims of the Green River serial killer "did not deserve justice."


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"I am just shocked that anybody would make that statement about any elected official," Budget Committee Chairman Larry Phillips, D-Seattle, said at a hearing at which his committee considered the sheriff's request for an extra $988,628 to cover overtime pay for Green River investigators.

Reichert didn't attend the hearing, but some of his top aides did.

Lacking a quorum, the committee couldn't act on Reichert's supplemental budget request. The full council, at its final 2003 meeting Monday, could approve the appropriation and prevent the sheriff's budget from ending the year out of balance.


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Class is on

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Click2Houston.com
Woman Gets Prison Time Over Burger Argument
Victim Permanently Injured
POSTED: 2:53 p.m. CST December 4, 2003
UPDATED: 4:44 p.m. CST December 4, 2003



HOUSTON -- A Houston woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for running over a fast-food restaurant manager because her drive-through order was wrong, News2Houston reported Thursday.



Victim Glad Violent Burger Dispute Is Over



Waynetta Nolan, 36, was convicted Wednesday of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

On April 23, Nolan became verbally abusive while ordering her meal in the drive-through lane of the McDonald's in the 10400 block of Bissonnet, witnesses said. She was upset at not receiving mayonnaise on her cheeseburger.

When manager Sherry Allen Jenkins, 43, told her to not talk that way, she then went outside to write down Nolan's license number.

The next thing she knew, Jenkins was on Nolan's car.

"I stepped down off the curb to write her license plate number down. I looked at her plate. I put my head down. The next thing I know I was on top of her hood," Jenkins said. "I gave her everything she asked for -- mayonnaise, no mustard, no onions -- everything I could possibly do for this lady -- ma'am, ma'am, ma'am -- and it still was not good enough."

"I never intended to hit this lady. I (go) to this McDonald's all the time," Nolan told News2Houston Wednesday.

Jenkins' pelvis was broken in two places. She still walks with a limp, and probably always will, she said. Jenkins will undergo two more surgeries.



"I'm happy -- just very, very happy. I'm satisfied with what they gave her. I think the jury did an excellent job and I really appreciate everything they did," Jenkins said.

Nolan faced a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

It took jurors approximately three hours to decide on punishment.

"We had a hard time talking about how many years we were going to give her. People wanted to give her five, wanted to give her more, less. We just had a real hard time," said Kenneth Lazoya, a juror.

"Miss Nolan is thankful that they didn't give her the 20 years. We think that even though they felt that this was something atrocious, they were fair in their deliberation, " said Troy Wilson, Nolan's attorney.

Nolan must serve five years in prison before she is eligible for parole.

Nolan was also accused of assault in a 1997 traffic incident where she allegedly hit someone over the head with a club. She has also been arrested on prostitution charges, News2Houston reported.

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I will be appearing on Highway 2 Health, an international radio talk show via internet about the one of the most notorious Doctor murderers of our time. Dr. Michale Swago December 29th, 2003 6pm.

Be sure to tune in to Vickie Travis and I about this notorius killer of over 60 medical murders and how he used the system to help him get away with it.

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'Gentleman' Cannibal Poses Legal Dilemma

BERLIN (Reuters) - Armin Meiwes, the German computer expert who gained worldwide notoriety by killing and eating a willing victim, stands trial on Wednesday in a case of sexually inspired cannibalism so perplexing it could make legal history.

Meiwes, 42, described by his lawyer as a "gentleman of the old school," has confessed to killing a Berlin man who answered an advertisement he had posted on the Internet seeking a fit man "for slaughter."

They met in Meiwes's elegant half-timbered home in the town of Rotenburg, central Germany, in March 2001. Meiwes killed the man, named only as Bernd-Juergen B., with a kitchen knife and filmed the deed on video tape which may be shown at the trial.

Meiwes's lawyer Harald Ermel said it took the victim nearly 10 hours to bleed to death and that he had repeatedly urged Meiwes to keep on cutting him.

Meiwes cut up the body and stored parts in his freezer. "He believes he ate about 20 kilograms and there were about 10 kilograms left over," said Ermel.

"He defrosted it little by little and ate it."

Police arrested Meiwes over a year later, in December 2002, after a tip-off from someone who had spotted another of his adverts on the Internet.

Meiwes is expected to repeat his confession at the trial that will be attended by reporters from all over the world. He is already planning to write his memoirs, his lawyer said.

Meiwes told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag last week: "I am guilty and regret what I did." He said he had eaten his victim because he wanted to make him part of himself, a desire that he had satisfied and that would not recur.

Professor Andreas Marneros, director of the Halle Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, said: "This is cannibalism as a sexual perversion, it's a phenomenon that has been known about for centuries. I have examined four such people."

Prosecutors in the city of Kassel say a psychiatric examination found Meiwes is not insane but they added that his victim may have been incapable of rational thought.

So while prosecutors acknowledge the victim said he wanted to die, they are seeking a life sentence on a charge of murder motivated by sexual urges.
Meiwes's lawyer wants him to be convicted of "killing on request," a form of illegal euthanasia which carries a sentence of six months to five years.

The problem, legal experts say, is that Meiwes's victim wanted to be eaten. That could make a murder charge difficult to apply, while the lesser charge of manslaughter carries a term of 15 years or considerably less, after which Meiwes would be free.

Professor Arthur Kreuzer of the Institute for Criminology at Giessen University, said the case might make legal history.

"This is killing undertaken for both killer and victim and cannot be regarded as the worst case of premeditated killing.

"But I don't think it is a killing on request either because it was not an altruistic, but an egoistic deed."

Kreuzer said the case may go as high as the Federal Constitutional Court and that prosecutors may be forced to consult new medical experts to assess Meiwes's mental state.

Meiwes's lawyer has revealed that his client had four other guests in his home, but let them all go.

"There was a teacher, a cook, a hotel employee and a student. He had them hanging from the ceiling head down and they had no chance of freeing themselves. One felt sick, the other didn't want to go on, he let them all down."

Ermel said Meiwes chatted about cannibalism with at least 280 like-minded people on the Internet. In Germany about 200 people on the Internet were offering to be slaughtered, 30 ready to do the slaughtering and 10 to 15 wanting to watch, he said.


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Killings by the mentally disturbed 'increasing'
By John Steele
Daily Telegraph, 01/12/2003

Killings by mentally-disturbed people living in the community in London, and
immersed in "chaotic" lives of drink and drugs, are rising yet many could be
prevented, one of Britain's leading police officers said yesterday. Tarique
Ghaffur, the Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner in charge of murder
squads, said suspects frequently had a history of medical treatment but the
current system for monitoring them outside hospitals needed "urgent"
overhaul.

Police and other agencies dealt well with the small "top tier" of the most
dangerous individuals, such as convicted murderers released from jail or
hospitals. But police, doctors, psychiatrists and others all shared some
responsibility for failing to tackle the "middle tier" - a far larger
number - of disturbed, potentially violent individuals. Without strict
supervision of medication and drug and alcohol abuse, many deteriorated and
the "smallest trigger" could provoke violence.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/01/nkill01.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/12/01/ixhome.html
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The Times
November 26, 2003
Blunders that set the Camden Ripper free to kill
By Ian Cobain and Michael Horsnell

A SERIES of "outrageous and unacceptable" blunders that allowed a serial
killer to strike again and again were laid bare after he was jailed for life
yesterday.

Police discovered one of Anthony Hardy's victims lying naked on his bed,
blood oozing from a head wound, yet he escaped prosecution when a
pathologist decided that she had died of natural causes. After that error,
Hardy was committed to a psychiatric hospital, only to be set free by a
panel of lay people which either ignored psychiatrists' warnings of the
danger which he posed or failed to read his medical notes. Within two
months of his release he had struck twice more, luring prostitutes back to
his flat, suffocating them, cutting up their corpses and disposing of their
remains in wheelie bins.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-908589,00.html

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Two articles from Applied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 17, Issue 7 (November
2003)

Cognitive mechanisms underlying lying to questions: response time as a cue
to deception (p 755-774)
Jeffrey J. Walczyk, Karen S. Roper, Eric Seemann, Angela M. Humphrey
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/106562560/ABSTRACT

How schemas affect eyewitness memory over repeated retrieval attempts (p
785-800)
Michelle Rae Tuckey, Neil Brewer
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/106562551/ABSTRACT

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Homicide Studies 7(4)
November 2003

Guest Editor's Introduction, Part 1
Karen Parker

The Enduring Puzzle of Southern Homicide
Christopher G. Ellison, Jeffrey A. Burr, Patricia L. McCall

Regional Culture and Patterns of Homicide
Colin Loftin, David McDowall

Women, Region, and Types of Homicide
Mari A. DeWees, Karen F. Parker

http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalIssue.aspx?pid=105579&jiid=6399


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U.S. Starts Trial of Ebola Vaccine

WASHINGTON (Reuters) Nov 18 - U.S. researchers said on Tuesday they were starting testing on the first experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus in people.

The virus, which kills anywhere between 50 and 90 percent of victims, is still rare but the most recent outbreak in Congo Republic has killed at least 11 people in a remote forest region.

It is considered a threat because it is deadly, highly infectious and has no treatment. U.S. experts fear it could also be used as a biological weapon.

The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will test the vaccine for safety in about two dozen volunteers.

The vaccine, made by San Diego-based Vical Inc., has so far fully protected monkeys from the virus. It uses pieces of DNA from the virus to prime the immune system.

"Our accelerated effort to understand and combat Ebola infection is part of the NIAID commitment to its biodefense mission," NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a statement.

"An effective Ebola vaccine not only would provide a life-saving advance in countries where the disease occurs naturally, it also would provide a medical tool to discourage the use of Ebola virus as an agent of bioterrorism."

The World Health Organization has been called in to help with the most recent Congo outbreak of Ebola.

"The current Ebola outbreak in the Congo provides a stark reminder of the need to rapidly develop vaccines against such perilous infections," NIAID vaccine chief Dr. Gary Nabel said in a statement.

"A few years ago, we did not imagine that our vaccine would enter human trials so quickly, but the reemergence of such viruses makes it all the more important to respond quickly.

In the trial, 27 volunteers will get three injections over two months and will be followed for one year. They will not be exposed to Ebola virus. The study is meant to show the vaccine is safe.




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F.B.I. Used Killers as Informants, Report Says

By FOX BUTTERFIELD
Published: November 21, 2003
New York Times

A report issued yesterday by the House Committee on Government Reform gave
the fullest accounting to date of the F.B.I.'s use of murderers as
informants in Boston for three decades and its protection of them even to
the point of allowing innocent men to be sentenced to death.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's policy "must be considered one of the
greatest failures in the history of federal law enforcement" and had
"disastrous consequences," the report said.

More than 20 people were killed by F.B.I. informants in Boston starting in
1965, often with the help of F.B.I. agents, it said, but no F.B.I. agent or
official has ever been disciplined.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/21/national/21BULG.html
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Understanding Emotion in Abused Children

By Tom Reynolds
Observer Correspondent
Under the iron-fisted rule of Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian families in the 1980s were pressured by the dictator's social engineering policies to have more children than they could afford. As a result, thousands wound up in "orphanages" - more like child warehouses or prisons - confined to cribs with minimal speech or human touch, no toys, and only the barest necessities of feeding and health care.

Many of their stories, along with those of other abandoned children from across Eastern Europe, have happy outcomes, as the children are adopted into loving families in the United States or elsewhere. But what psychological scars do these children bear from their early experience of extreme neglect? What can be done to help promote their positive development?

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Seth Pollak is working to answer those and similar questions, studying emotion in children adopted from Russia and Romania. An assistant professor of psychology, psychiatry, and pediatrics, and a member of the Waisman Center at UW-Madison, Pollak also studies emotional development in children severely abused by parents or caregivers. His carefully controlled laboratory research is designed to probe beneath and beyond the well-established findings that abused and neglected children are at increased risk for developing a wide variety of psychological and behavioral disorders.

The problem is pervasive. For the year 2000, the US government counts 879,000 substantiated cases of child maltreatment nationwide, with 19 percent of cases consisting of physical abuse and 62 percent of neglect. A 1992 study found significantly high rates of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder among maltreated children. Another study that same year found children at an increased risk for depression, often with a tendency of violence against other adults, spouses, and dating partners. A 2001 report from the National Institute of Justice showed that abuse or neglect increases the probability of arrest as a juvenile by 59 percent, arrest as an adult by 28 percent, and arrest for violent crime by 30 percent. In June, Pollak presented his research at a meeting in Washington, DC that brought together Congressional staffers, NIH scientists, and representatives from other federal agencies to confront the problem of child abuse.

At yet another level, Pollak's work has an even more ambitious aim: to advance the age-old debate about the relative contributions of nature and nurture. In the past decade or so, Pollak contends, influential scientific and popular publications have downplayed parents' importance in child development, leading many people to mistakenly view the nature-nurture debate as a closed book. He sees his research as part of a burgeoning movement to keep the issue open for inquiry, with a focus on "the complex and dynamic interplay between biology and experience in shaping children's behavior."

"If I told you that research from my laboratory was demonstrating that child abuse is bad for kids," Pollak said, "your response would probably be something like, 'Duh! That's not interesting - of course child abuse is bad for children.' But what is interesting is that this is so well documented, so much taken for granted; yet we don't know why - and we don't often ask why.

Why is it that something that happens when someone is one or two or three years old affects their ability to regulate their emotions and behavior as a toddler, their peer relationships as a young child, their intellectual development and academic performance in elementary school, their risk for delinquency and substance abuse in the teenage years; puts them at risk for depression and criminal behavior as adults; and affects the way they parent their own children?
"Something in the person is obviously changed based on this experience," he said. "But what could it possibly be? What are the mechanisms affecting behavior in so many different domains years after the abuse has stopped?"

With a dual PhD in clinical psychology and brain and cognitive sciences from the University of Rochester, Pollak takes a multidisciplinary approach to this problem, combining insights from both of those fields along with developmental psychology. His approach owes a debt to Loren and Jean Chapman's idea of measuring differential deficit (described in a classic 1978 article in the Journal of Psychiatric Research). This method, Pollak said, represents an advance in explanatory power over the largely descriptive body of research showing simply that a group of subjects with psychopathology typically perform worse than a control group. Teasing out a differential deficit - a particular, theoretically meaningful condition under which the pathological group's performance lags - allows researchers to make far more incisive interpretations of experimental data.

Pollak's guiding hypothesis is that early emotional experiences, occurring when the brain retains a high degree of plasticity, have the power to alter the way a child learns about and responds to displays of emotion in others. Given a warm, nurturing environment, the child's emotional learning will proceed along a relatively smooth course, paving the way for stable emotions and interpersonal relationships throughout life. But if instead the child is a victim of severe abuse or neglect, she may learn responses that, while adaptive under these dire conditions, are counterproductive in more benign circumstances.

A key finding that Pollak has uncovered using a variety of experimental techniques is that abused children are more sensitive than others to cues of anger. "They mobilize their attentional and cognitive resources to catch even very subtle signs of anger," he said. "They become experts at anger detection."

In a study of categorical perception (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2002), Pollak and Doris Kistler showed maltreated and control children computer-modified pictures of faces that "morphed" in 11 steps from one emotion to another: from happy to fearful, for example, or angry to sad. Abused children had a lower threshold for perceiving faces as angry, but did not differ from controls in perceiving happy, sad, or fearful faces.

Pollak and colleagues also use electrophysiological methods to probe what happens when children's brains are confronted with emotional stimuli. In Psychophysiology (March 2001), they described an experiment comparing event-related brain potentials in maltreated and control children presented with pictures of faces displaying different emotions. Using the P3b brain wave - validated in perceptual and cognitive studies as a measure of heightened attention - they found that the strength of the P3b response in abused children differed from controls only for angry faces, not sad or fearful ones. P3b represents "a combination of selective attention and memory that is getting jacked up," Pollack said. As an involuntary, directly measured response, P3b is particularly useful in probing brain activity in real time.

In the Journal of Abnormal Psychology (August 2003), Pollak and Stephanie Tolley-Schell presented results of a related study. They used a selective attention task, in which happy or angry faces were used to trigger responses when the target, a star, was displayed on either the left or right side of a computer screen. In trials where the target appeared on the "wrong" side of the screen (opposite the preceding face), subjects inevitably took longer to respond, reflecting the additional cognitive step needed to respond versus when the target is on the "correct" side. According to P3b amplitude, abused children employed greater attentional resources than controls to "disengage" from angry facial displays and focus on the target. Again, the two groups did not differ when happy faces were used.

"The method we used in this study allowed us to demonstrate that abused children don't have a problem paying attention in general," Pollak said. Instead, "when anger is present, it's like they stick to it."

Taken together, he contended, these findings reinforce the theory that abused children are more attuned to anger, or what looks to them like anger, in others. This hypersensitivity likely works to a child's advantage in the presence of an abusive parent: He can flee or change his behavior. But it may also lead the child to take an aggressive stance, or alternatively, to withdraw, even in situations where no threat is present. It is not hard to see how a child expecting confrontation from every social encounter could develop emotional and behavioral problems.

"It's kind of like growing up with prisms over your eyes," he says. "You can learn how to adjust to the world if it's distorted consistently. But what happens when it's righted? That's where I think these kids start having a lot of interpersonal problems. They misinterpret other people's social signals and spend so much of their cognitive resources looking for anger that they miss other cues. If you're a child on the playground, and you think someone is going to harm you, you're going to respond as if you're being threatened. If the person wasn't trying to harm you, your behavior looks bizarre to everyone else, and you get in trouble, even though you're just doing what comes naturally - protecting yourself."

In past research on maltreated children, Pollak noted, those who were physically abused, sexually abused, or neglected were commonly lumped together.

"But from the perspective of the developing brain, those experiences are very different," he said. "So scientists are now starting to look at more homogeneous groups."

In contrast to abused children, those who suffer neglect seem to have difficulties decoding and understanding emotions across the spectrum. Pollak and Alison Wismer Fries have found that neglected children have difficulty discriminating different facial expressions, and that Eastern European post-institutionalized children adopted in the United States have trouble matching pictured facial expressions to happy, sad, angry, or fearful scenarios described verbally. The longer a child was institutionalized, the greater the impairment. But the good news is that the longer children have been in adoptive homes, the better their performance.

Pollak believes the paucity of early interpersonal contact denies institutionalized children the opportunity to learn about emotions at a young age, as most children do; yet, if they are adopted into a caring family, they may be able to catch up later. Collaborating with intervention experts, Pollack is now planning a study to see whether targeted therapies can further improve these children's emotional learning. To help gauge efficacy, children will have psychophysiological testing before and after the interventions.

"It's exciting," he said. "No one's ever done this before."

Beyond the significance of Pollak's work for maltreated children are potential clues for understanding emotional development in general.

"With my developmental or 'affective' scientist hat on, my interest is, where do basic emotions - like happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust - come from?" he said.

Because such emotions span across vastly different cultures, the prevailing assumption is that they are hard-wired in the human brain. But Pollak suggests that, in part, the universality of emotions may reflect that children in every culture are treated much alike in the ways that matter most. If that is true, one of the few ways to study how emotional responses arise is to look at children whose experience is far outside the norm. Besides abuse victims and post-institutionalized children, he is studying children with depressed parents and children with Down syndrome or language disorders. In the latter cases, he explained, the difference in experience comes not from treatment by others, but from central nervous system abnormalities.

"These groups of children represent different ways we can parse the role of social experience in brain/behavior relationships," Pollak said. "If we see differences in groups of children who have had extreme experiences, this might give us insight into the relative contributions of nature and nurture to emotional behavior." In addition, he said the study could lead to a model of which parts of the brain are affected by experience.

"I do think there are biological predispositions for emotional behaviors, since they are learned so rapidly after birth," he added. "But all biological systems have to maintain some flexibility, because when we're born we don't know what our environment will be like. So I see a tremendous role for experience in changing how those systems work."

A complementary line of research is beginning to identify potential gene-environment interactions. Pollak points to a study by a group of his colleagues showing that maltreated children with a particular genetic marker are more likely to develop behavioral problems following maltreatment than those lacking the particular polymorphism. Perhaps the biggest challenge for this field, he predicted, will be trying to understand why maltreated children have such varied outcomes, ranging from depression to criminality to, for the lucky ones, happy adult adjustment.

Pollak hopes his own work, along with that of like-minded researchers, will help steer emotion research away from the recent trend of studying the brain in isolation from the social environment, and move it onto a more inclusive, interdisciplinary course.

"You can't just pay attention to what's in children's heads; you have to pay attention to what their heads are in," he said. "And it's the interaction between the two that's really crucial."


References
Chapman, L. J. & Chapman, J. P. The measurement of differential deficit. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 1978;14(1-4):303-11. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Pollak, S. D. &Kistler, D. J. Early experience is associated with the development of categorical representations for facial expressions of emotion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 2002 Jun 25;99(13):9072-6. (Epub 2002 Jun 18.) Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.

Pollak, S. D, Klorman, R., Thatcher, J. E. & Cicchetti, D. P3b reflects maltreated children's reactions to facial displays of emotion. Psychophysiology. 2001 Mar;38(2):267-74. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Pollak, S. D. & Tolley-Schell, S. A. Selective attention to facial emotion in physically abused children. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 2003 Aug;112(3):323-38.
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Boy, 14, fatally shot in scuffle with police

Nov. 22, 2003, 10:03AM


By ROBERT CROWE and DALE LEZON
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle

Eli Eloy Escobar II

A 14-year-old boy was fatally shot in the head Friday during a scuffle with Houston police officers at a northwest Houston apartment complex, police said.

Sandra Aponte, a Houston Police Department spokeswoman, did not release the names of the victim or the police officers involved.

Aponte said two officers responded to a criminal mischief call about 6:15 p.m. in the 4600 block of West 34th Street. The person who called police led the officers to the nearby Burnham Woods Apartments at 3130 Mangum, where the suspect was pointed out to police.

"There were several juvenile males there. A struggle ensued between the officers and one of the juveniles. During the struggle, a single gunshot was discharged," Aponte said.

She said the boy was pronounced dead at the scene.

Eli Eloy Escobar Sr., the boy's father, said later Friday that friends took him to the shooting scene and police told him his son, Eli Eloy Escobar II, was shot to death.

"A detective told me Eli had hit the officer in the groin," Escobar said. "The officers wrestled him and the gun went off."

He said he wanted to see his son but a police detective said it wouldn't be good for me to see him.

"He (detective) said it would be better for me to remember him as he was," Escobar said.

One officer, Aponte said, suffered injuries to his wrist and groin during the struggle. "The rest of the details of the struggle and how the shooting happened ... is under investigation."

When asked if police believed the shooting was accidental, Aponte said: "They have not established any of this right now. This is part of the investigation."

One officer is a two-year veteran and the other is a four-year veteran, Aponte said.

Lydia Escobar, the boy's mother, said police came to her job to get her but didn't say her son was dead.

"My son is dead, my only son," the crying mother said later Friday.

She said police took her to the scene and she saw officials removing a covered body, but she didn't get a chance to identify the body.

Lydia Escobar said police told her they were trying to handcuff her son and he struggled with them.

Elmer Sanchez, 14, who said he attended Black Middle School with the victim, said he and the victim were at Sanchez's apartment playing video games when police came to the door and ordered them outside.

One officer told two teens to stand against a nearby fence, he said.

The two boys complained to officers that they didn't understand why they were ordered out the apartment, Elmer said. He said the boys didn't move immediately.

He said one officer grabbed the victim by his shirt and pulled him over to the fence. Somehow the kid fell to ground, he said, and he told police he didn't do anything. He tried to get up and fell again.

Elmer said he then heard one gunshot.

Eli's mother said her son was planning on going to his grandmother's house in Corpus Christi for Thanksgiving. She said her son was a "miracle baby" who had been born six weeks premature April 6, 1989, and weighted 4 pounds, 3 ounces. But she said he "was fighter."

"And now I don't have a son," she said. "It's just me and my husband again."

The father said he came home from work about 4 p.m. Friday. His son asked his father if he could go to a friend's house to play video games and said he'd be home by 6 p.m. When the boy didn't return, the elder Escobar said he began to worry.

"I started feeling inside of me that something was wrong," he said. "I had a pain in my heart."

He said his son was preparing to sing and act in a school Christmas play Dec. 15. He was playing one of the Wisemen, he said. He was a slow-learner, but he had head for computers and loved reading at the library. He also loved music and singing.

"He wanted me to teach him the acoustic guitar," he said.

Lydia Escobar smiled as she talked about her son's natty wardrobe and looked at his Christmas wish list. The list includes Sean John shorts and jeans, a long nnecklace and Nike Airforceone shoes. It also includes wrestling video games and compact discs.

"My baby isn't even going to get to eat turkey like he wanted to with my mother and his uncles," she said.

The father said police told him to met them at their office at noon today to discuss the case.

It's the second time in three weeks that a teen has been shot and killed by a Houston police officer. Jose Vargas Jr., 15, was killed by Officer R.K. Butler Oct. 31 in the parking lot of AMC Studio 30 movie theater on Dunvale. Police said the shooting was an accident.

Butler and another officer were off duty and working security in the movie theater parking lot when they spotted Vargas driving and became suspicious. Vargas drove out of the parking lot and Butler, driving his own car, chased the Chevrolet Blazer north on Dunvale until Vargas was halted by traffic near Westheimer.

Butler got out of his vehicle and walked up to Vargas'. Butler put his gun in the window and, police said, Vargas stepped on the gas. When the car moved, police said, the door frame struck Butler's arm and the gun went off.



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ID software for sale to the public

By MARY LOU PICKEL
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


Does your job candidate have a rap sheet? Does a potential client have a history of not paying bills? Software now on sale at Sam's Club can help you find the answer.

ChoicePoint, the Alpharetta company that specializes in identification verification, has launched three products that make its databases of personal information available to consumers.

Until now the company has worked mostly with government agencies, Fortune 500 companies and police departments. It provides pre-employment background checks, personal dossiers, insurance underwriting software and other verification services.

Going retail is "a strategy to take our products to different channels," ChoicePoint Vice President Deslie Quinby said.

The products first appeared on shelves last month in 41 Sam's Clubs across the country, including one metro Atlanta store, in Alpharetta. The cereal box-sized packages contain CDs and handbooks that allow the purchaser access to a ChoicePoint Web site and instructions on how to do a background check and other investigations.

James Lee, ChoicePoint's marketing vice president, said both ChoicePoint and Sam's Club saw a niche for retailing small-business products, and the partnership developed this summer.

Small-business owners can use the software, priced from $30 to $60, to get the latest address and telephone number of a company that owes them money, learn if a potential hire has a criminal conviction and buy a customized direct mailing list of 850 names.

Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, warned that ChoicePoint may open itself to defamation charges if it shares personal information that is not accurate or complete.

He questioned whether sharing personal information is legal.

"Providing information about individuals for background checks has always been controversial," he said.

Past criticism

ChoicePoint has encountered criticism in the past. It agreed this year to stop collecting information on 65 million Mexican citizens after a media firestorm and a ruling from Mexico's Federal Election Institute that the names and other information ChoicePoint bought were confidential.

ChoicePoint says it is taking privacy into account on its new products and will sell the "Employee Background Check" product only to buyers who provide a valid business license.

The software, priced at $40, provides one 10-year background check of criminal convictions and employment and identity verification.

"We have a series of call centers," Quinby said. "We call the place where they used to work, and the same with the reference. And we'll send people to a courthouse and pull a record."

Written consent

The purchaser agrees to obtain written consent from the person undergoing the check, Lee said, and keep that record on file for at least seven years. The user also must agree to be audited by ChoicePoint.

Those restrictions make it impossible to use the products simply to be nosy or make mischief, ChoicePoint says.

"There is not a way that you could use this to check on your neighbor or your daughter's boyfriend," said Lee.

The other products are for sale to anyone who wants to know a little more about a company.

"Minimize Business Risk," sold for $30, provides 50 searches of an array of public records to show if a company has been in bankruptcy, what real estate it owns, incorporation records and white pages for updated phone numbers. The information does not contain personal credit histories but rather a corporation's history of bankruptcies, liens and judgments.

"Find New Customers" allows the consumer to get a list of names and addresses sorted by parameters such as age, location, income level and sex. All are approved for either telemarketing or direct mail, Lee said.

ChoicePoint will test the products for several months to determine how they're selling. With no advertising so far, Sam's Club has sold "a medium amount," Quinby said.

The two companies will decide what approach works best and may adjust sales price or packaging, she said.

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When a lie becomes the truth

Memory 12(1), pp 14-26
(January 2004 )

The effects of self-generated misinformation
on eyewitness memory
Kerri L. Pickel

This research investigated whether generating misinformation impairs memory
for actual information. After watching a videotaped robbery, some witnesses
were interviewed about it, but others did not rehearse the event details.
One week later, the witnesses tried to remember the robber's appearance. In
Experiment 1, those who fabricated a description of the robber during the
interview and those who did not rehearse remembered fewer correct details
than did truthful witnesses or those who fabricated about another person.
Witnesses who fabricated about the robber also reported more incorrect
details than did truthful or non-interviewed witnesses. In Experiment 2,
witnesses who fabricated about the robber performed as poorly on the memory
test as did witnesses who answered interview questions using false
information prepared for them. In both experiments deceptive witnesses
sometimes reported invented details on the memory test, suggesting that they
may have come to believe some fabrications.

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A review of Placing Blame: A General Theory of Criminal Law

Human Nature Review 2003 Volume 3: 466-479 ( 17 November )
Against Retribution by Thomas W. Clark
A review of Placing Blame: A General Theory of Criminal Law by Michael Moore

Intuitively, naturalism undercuts retributive attitudes by showing that the
causal story behind crime involves numerous factors outside the individual.
Although Michael Moore is entirely naturalistic in his understanding of
human behavior, he thinks any mitigation of retributive judgments is
unwarranted: retribution is an intrinsic good, and we should discard our
sympathies for disadvantaged offenders as "moral hallucinations." I make the
case that such sympathies are not misplaced, but reflect the fact that our
dispositions to punish and withhold punishment track causality itself. When
we understand the external factors that shaped the offender, retributive
rage diminishes in favor of a determination to address these factors. It is
only by ignoring the functional, forward-looking nature of morality that
Moore can portray retribution as an intrinsic good and the reigning moral
principle of criminal justice. Since the natural purpose of morality,
including the retributive impulse, is to shape behavior advantageously, we
can and should consider other more efficient and less punitive means to
achieve the ends that retribution originally served. This suggests the aims
of criminal justice might change under pressure from a thorough-going
naturalism.

http://human-nature.com/nibbs/03/twclark.html
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Just notice the IPC was miss-typed as LPC, I am not a LPC!

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Stressed to Kill: The Defense of Brainwashing : Sniper Suspect's Claim

By Don Oldenburg
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 21, 2003; Page C01

As sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo stands trial this week, his insanity
defense relies on a controversial claim rarely heard in courtrooms: The
defendant was brainwashed to kill. But whether Malvo is a "Manchurian
Candidate" sniper or a coldblooded killer who acted on his own volition is a
question that ventures into complicated territory -- that of the human mind
and an often bitter three-decade debate over the validity of brainwashing.

In the courtroom of public opinion, the word "brainwashing" has a dramatic
history. There, it recalls the blank stares and swastika-carved foreheads of
Manson family murderers, the gruesome scene of 912 bodies after the mass
suicide at Jonestown 25 years ago last Tuesday and the mass suicide by
Heaven's Gate members, convinced that by killing themselves they would
rejoin their alien kin on a spaceship heading home. The word is still used
to explain incomprehensible behavior today. When Islamic extremists flew
airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, some speculated
brainwashing. The mother of "shoe bomber" Richard Reid and the father of
American Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh said their sons were brainwashed.
When kidnapped Elizabeth Smart was reported to have strangely complied with
her abductors, her father said she had been brainwashed.

But social scientists and legal scholars are split over whether brainwashing
is junk science or a real phenomenon.






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Suicide & Family

Talk of the Nation audio
Nov. 12, 2003

The study of suicide has focused largely on those who choose to end their
lives, and why. Now, researchers are beginning to focus on the family and
friends left behind. Join host Neal Conan for a look at the hidden
repercussions of suicide.



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New public secure phone

Eavesdropping-proof phone hits market

November 18 2003
by Reuters
Criminals and businessmen form an orderly queue now...

A German company launched a new mobile handset on Tuesday targeted at business executives that ensures lines are free from eavesdroppers, sparking criticism that it could also make criminals harder to catch.

Berlin-based Cryptophone, a unit of privately held GSMK, developed the phone by inserting encryption software inside a standard handheld computer phone. This ensures that calls can only be decoded by a similar handset or a computer running the software.

But the phone is seen as a mixed blessing in some European countries. While the benefits for business managers exchanging sensitive information are obvious, such a device could potentially have the side effect of helping criminals.

Security specialists in the Netherlands said the device could threaten criminal investigation by the Dutch police, which is one of the world's most active phone tappers, listening in to 12,000 phone numbers every year.

But privacy lobbyists say the new handset is a "freedomphone" much more than a "terrorphone."

Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, said: "It's a tremendous step forward, because the level of surveillance by authorities is breathtaking." Cryptophone says unlike rivals such as Sweden's Sectra, Swiss Crypto AG and Germany's Rohde & Schwarz, it has no ties to national security and defence organisations and that there is no back door for government agencies.

Rop Gonggrijp, from Amsterdam-based NAH6, said: "We allow everyone to check the security for themselves, because we're the only ones who publish the source code.". Gonggrijp, who helped develop the software, owns a stake in Germany's GSMK.

The Microsoft-based XDA handheld computer phone made by Taiwan's High Tech Computer is selling for €3,499 per two handsets.

At that price it is targeting executives, lawyers and bankers who regularly swap market sensitive information on mergers and lawsuits, and for whom privacy is worth paying for.

Eavesdropping equipment, available for around €100,000, is officially only available to government agencies, but suspected criminals have also been able to obtain it, Gonggrijp said.

The strong encryption standards used by Cryptophone can already be applied in emails and other computer applications. The advent of more powerful handheld devices such as the Microsoft-based handheld computer phones has allowed Cryptophone to offer the same level of security on mobile phones.

But the high price of the device means few will be able to buy it.

Ian Brown, director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, said: "Not many average consumers will pay that kind of money. The people who will be using it are in businesses."

If the high security phones become popular, however, governments could well clamp down on them, Privacy International's Davies said. "I would not trust governments to leave it alone."

Cryptophone says on its website that exports of the device were unlimited within Europe and to several large economies around the world, but that customer credentials would be checked for a criminal records.

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