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Morpheus's avatar

Theres something not right about this case, something smells fishy.

I ask What concrete evidence is there ? Or its circumstancial evidence?

Or is this another leftists hate mob, framing some nurse because she has a different world view?

This case looks incredibly odd. I smell a rat

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Cally Starforth's avatar

No actual evidence against her and no evidence that any of the babies were murdered. THey died due to negligence at the hospital and she is the scapegoat

https://callystarforth.substack.com/p/the-greatest-miscarriage-continues

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HUMDEEDEE's avatar

Perhaps she was employing a throw-back version of cultures whose practice was to discard/kill newborn babies with abnormalities or too weak to survive without drawing upon scarce resources. The decline of IQ seems to indicate that humans are regressing to a retro culture dominated by cargo cult beliefs and Gaia worship.

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Gus Mooney's avatar

I watched quite a bit of the live courthouse coverage of the Alex Murdaugh trial earlier this year and it was interesting to observe his behaviour during proceedings including the sentencing. I've read a few articles about the Letby trial but not enough to glean a sense of how she's been reacting to evidence and questioning. I did read that she refused to return to court for the verdicts and has already expressed that she will not go for sentencing. I wonder if that is shame and I wonder if that's why she reacted angrily to parents' who caught her in the act of harming their babies. Might that point to a severe split personality?

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parameter9's avatar

It is co-incidence no doubt but I was thinking about the subject of 'serial killers' from watching an old 1950 movie about one (and the sensationalist nature of the topic as a subject for story telling) so wanted to know what is known about the incidence, historicity and sociology etc. One thing mentioned on Wiki was urbanization and the changing living arrangements, but there must be all sorts of factors at play leading to this most extreme form of human personality and behavior (and perhaps it is NOT as extremal in human behavior as we'd like to imagine)

So, have you done much of dive before into the phenomenon of the repeat ('for kicks') killer Dr. D (mostly male as it is)?

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Dave's avatar

I was thinking of the serial killer angle as well, when Ed mentioned how the nurse would keep copies of the condolences letters she'd sent to the grieving parents - these would be like the trophies that regular serial killers are supposed to keep.

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Timo's avatar

I know nothing of this case but it aint out of ordinary for women to kill other women babies out of jealousy (ie female status symbol=baby) when they dont have man and possibility to get a child... this is seen in other primates too(ie they are very ruthless for orphans but take care of their own child). Also of urban environment, Id think depressed young mom could kill baby, sort of to protect herself and baby, when there is little resources and no help available to take care of it... just not far analog to extend this to caregiving work. So urban social life is extremely complicated as it is already.

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All Mouth And Trousers's avatar

If you want a general book then "Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit" written by retired FBI agent John E. Douglas and his co-author Mark Olshaker is a good place to start. Talks you through the process they went through to draw up the system of FBI profiling used for serial killers and the bigger cases of the people they interviewed.

As for causes the book says some children have a propensity towards it, sometimes caused by brain damage or an accident. It then depends on the parenting of that child how they turn out. Anyway read the book, it is very interesting and shocking in equal parts.

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Hamster S's avatar

It seems she was enjoying the killing, the attacks were straight up lethal, intended to promptly kill. I wonder why she hated babies.

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