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October 29, 2005

Why sex offenders do what they do

NBC News channel, Oct 27, 2005

They are the latest faces of heinous crime in our country: Dennis Radar, known as the B-T-K killer, and Joseph Duncan -- and they have been accused of torturing and killing many. As we have covered these two men and their actions, the question keeps surfacing: Why do they do what they do? [...]

Dr. Kenneth Lindsey/Clinical Psychologist: "For a long, long time we've been searching and people the world over have been searching to explain these adherent behaviors." [...] Lindsey, has read over pages of research that divides violent offenders into these four categories: Those who kill out of rage, those who commit sexually sadistic and ritualized murder, those who commit murder a perverted chaotic way, and those who are planning rape but accidentally kill the victim.

Posted by Emma at October 29, 2005 03:46 PM

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