Interview with Keith’s mother from earlier this year.
Keiths mother died this morning. Another victim.
I involuntarily exclaimed “Oh no!” when I read the news. How sorry I feel that she was never able to give her son a proper burial.
It’s very sad that Winnie Johnson died without getting the answers she wanted so badly.
I can’t imagine how horrifying it must have been for her to never know where her poor son was buried, and to have to live with knowing how he died all those years.
Still, the pleas in that one article for Brady to “do the right thing” seem kind of silly to me.
It is completely futile to make pleas like that to a psychopath. Psychopaths are not CAPABLE of feeling empathy or remorse like the rest of us. You might as well be trying to stop a cat from killing a mouse by begging with it to have mercy. I think one of the dangerous things about psychopaths is that many people don’t get that these aren’t just normal people who did a bad thing (hence how some of these criminals get away with tricking normals into thinking they “changed” or “found Jesus” or whatever). The parts of the brain that keep the rest of us from doing terrible things aren’t working in these people and never will.
And the world is pretty neatly divided into two groups:
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Those who refuse to associate with or trust psychopaths, and take good care to figure out who the psychopaths are in their lives
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Those who are stupid enough to continue associating with the psychopaths in their lives.
My best friend, we’ll call him “Vern”, has been betrayed many times by a mutual “friend” of ours, who we’ll call “Ernest”. I’ve known “Ernest” for 25 years. I also tend to VERY carefully pay attention to whether or not someone is capable of remorse for the harm they do to others. I’ve NEVER seen “Ernest” show any capability for remorse, and I’ve seen him do some pretty shitty things to various people, especially women. However, “Vern” continues to trust “Ernest”. He’s a fool for it, IMHO, but…it’s his choice.