Mass Murder

The Case of Norway's Anders Behring Breivik: Where Lies Madness?

Gail A. Hornstein | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Violence, Mental Illness, Mental Disorders, Psychiatry, Muslims, Mass Murder, Anders Behring Breivik, College News
Gail A. Hornstein

Anders Breivik claims to be part of a broader network called the Knights Templar, but police have not located any other members. If they did, would his actions appear less pathological? Would he then be seen as part of an organization rather than a madman?

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David Lohr

Charles Manson Is Not A Serial Killer

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Mass Murder, Spree Killer, Scott Bonn, Crime, Crime News, Mug Shots, Organized Crime, Fbi, Serial Murderers, Video, Spree Killing, John Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson, Slidepollajax, Serial Killers, Mark Safarik, Ted Bundy, Crime News

Charles Manson is a notorious inmate and arguably an American icon of evil but, according to experts, the aging convict is not a serial killer or a ma...

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: The Mind Of A Mass Murderer

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Mass Murder, Robert Bales, Personality, Science, Michael Koenigs, Murder, Video, Brain, Talk Nerdy to Me, Killer, Ut Sniper, Brain Damage, Cara Santa Maria, Charles Whitman, Mind, Science News

2012-03-28-Screenshot20120328at10.35.41AM.jpgOn August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman murdered his mother and his wife before traveling to the campus of the University of Texas, climbing inside the tower, and killing fourteen others.

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Scott Dekraai, Alleged Seal Beach Salon Shooter, Needed Laura's Law

DJ Jaffe | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Mass Murder, Scott Dekraai, Mentally Ill, Shooting, Prop 63, Laura's Law, Mental Health Services Act, Seal Beach Shooting, California, Los Angeles News
DJ Jaffe

If media reports are true, Scott Dekraai had bipolar disorder, a history of violence, wouldn't stay on treatment, and was a perfect candidate for Laura's Law.

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The National Empathy Divide

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Isolation, Restorative Justice, Mass Murder, Empathy, Families, Jared Loughner, Peace, Tucson Shooting, Tucson, Politics News
Robert Koehler

The movement known as restorative justice challenges the notion that our basic response to crime should be punishment rather than healing.

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Serious Guns and White Terrorism: Two Unasked Question in Tucson Mass Murder

Bill Quigley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Murder, Mass Murder, National Rifle Association, Terrorism, Assault Weapons, Tucson, Racism, Surveillance, White, Muslim, Guns, Politics News
Bill Quigley

Question: How does a mentally unstable man who was kicked out of school and had run-ins with the law buy an assault weapon?

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Rush Limbaugh: Proof That Fear Makes You Stupid

David Ropeik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homophobes, Mass Murder, Fear, Liberals, Fundamentalist Christians, Native Americans, Social Animals, Indians, Reparations, White People, Tribe, Muslims, Conservatives, Atheists, Tobacco, Gays, Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh, Politics News
David Ropeik

Rush Limbaugh recently compared the murder of Native Americans to European deaths via tobacco. Pretty stupid. Not ideological or right wing or politically incorrect. Just third-grade dumb.

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Howard Barton Unruh Dead: "Walk Of Death" Mass Murderer Who Killed 13 In 1949 Dies At 88

AP | BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barbara Stanwyck, Camden, Mass Murder, Howard Barton Unruh Dead, Crime, Schizophrenia, Camden New Jersey, Mass Murderer, Walk of Death, Howard Barton Unruh, Howard Unruh, New York News

TRENTON, N.J. — Howard Barton Unruh, who killed 13 people as he walked the streets of Camden in a psychotic 1949 shooting spree that was the nat...

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Hitler Wants You to Wear a Condom

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Mass Murder, Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Sex, Psa, Genocide, Safe Sex, Adolf Hitler, Condoms, Healthy Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Sometimes shock campaigns work but this one just leaves me feeling cold. And kinda icky inside.

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UPDATED: Pittsburgh Killer Once Posted at 'Militia' Forum -- Later Hit Obama, 'Liberal Media'

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mass Murder, Obama, Sodini, Pittsburgh Killer, Sodini Obama, Fitness Center Killer, Sodini Liberal Media, Media News
Greg Mitchell

The diary of George Sodini, who killed four women and then himself at a Pittsburgh area fitness center last night, has comments about the "liberal media," and the "Obama economy."

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Tea Party Twitter Arrest: Daniel Hayden Threatened Mass Murder, Cop Killing

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 04.26.2009

Read More: Mass Murder, Daniel Knight Hayden, Daniel Hayden, Twitter Arrest, Cop Killing, Tea Party Protester Arrested, Teabagger Arrested, Tea Party Twitter, Tea Party, Oklahoma Man Arrested, Video, Politics News

An Oklahoma man was arrested by FBI agents earlier this month for posting a series of messages on his Twitter account threatening to use a tax day Tea...

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Terrorist Without a Cause

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Rochester New Hampshire Hostage, Mass-Murder, Binghamton Shooting, School Shootings, Healthy Living News
Barry Michael Cooper

I wrote this essay after a bloodbath at Santana High School. Fifteen-year-old Charles Andrew Williams shot 15 people. Two of them died. He is now serving a sentence of 50 years-to-life. This is his story.

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Mass Execution In Iran For Drug Traffickers, Murderers

Iranfocus.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran Evin Prison, Mass Murder, Mass Execution, Evin Prison, Iran Mass Execution, Iran Death Penalty, Hanging, Iran Criminal Justice, Iran, Iran Hanging, World News

Tehran, Iran, Jan. 22 - Iranian authorities hanged 22 people over the past two days. Ten people were mass executed on Wednesday in Tehran's notorio...

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