Killer Comparisons: John Eric Armstrong and Paul Stephani, the 'Weepy-Voiced Killer'
When you're a serial killer, that idea of subconsciously wanting to be caught is a very interesting one from a psychological perspective. Do you secretly want to be apprehended because you're living in a sort of hell that you just want to end? Do you have a deep sense of right and wrong and know that you cannot keep committing these crimes, that eventually you'll be caught anyway? Or are you sadistically playing cat and mouse with police, not really intending to be arrested at all? What is actually going on in the mind of a serial killer who contacts police and seems to want to be caught? Let's take a look at two convicted serials from this framework. One was born in North Carolina in 1973, the other in Minnesota in 1944. One hunted on a seedy strip of the inner city of Detroit in 1999 and 2000, the other in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area years earlier, in 1980–1982. Both came from childhoods marked by divorce. Both married as adults and assumed seemingly normal lives. B...
