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Ep: 173 - Scale of Evil, (Part 10) “Death House Landlady” - The Psychology Of Serial Killers - psychology podcast - Michael Drane - we are a forensic psychology podcast that focuses on true crime, pop culture and psychological phenomenon. True crime podcast- Scale of Evil
In this Episode: The story you are about to hear should convince you that murders don’t have to look like the devil to be one. In this episode, we present the Case of Dorothea Puentes, one of the most cited cases for level 15 on Dr. Michael Stone’s Gradations of Evil Scale.
Who is Dorothea Puente?
Ep: 173 - Scale of Evil, (Part 10) “Death House Landlady” - The Psychology Of Serial Killers - psychology podcast - Michael Drane - we are a forensic psychology podcast that focuses on true crime, pop culture and psychological phenomenon. True crime podcast- Scale of Evil
When you think of a psychopathic mass murderer, you tend to think of a sinister figure, cast in shadow, blood thirsty and vicious.
In order to qualify as a Level 15 murderer, you must be a mass murderer because it is convenient for you do so. Sometimes you target people out of jealousy or rage because they have wronged you, or sometimes because they are simply in the way, a means to an end. Their murderous carnage branching out to total strangers.
The level 15 killer is a calculating schemer, and thinks nothing to kill you if they can profit from your murder. They kill frequently, with total indifference.
On some level, it might be the sheer pleasure of murder itself that drives the level 15 killer. Generally, their profile includes a history of unspeakable childhood trauma and neglect, and they grow up to insight anarchy against a society that abandoned them in their youth.
They have grown up in a world that treated them so unfairly, that they feel no need to return the favor.. to anybody. They have completely redefined their sense of right and wrong. Just as they were given no mercy, no mercy shall be given to you.
Evil doers who look evil are easy to spot, it is those who douse themselves in good deeds who are the ones nobody suspects. Imagine a psychopathic mass murderer, not a powerful terrifying figure, not an ominous sinister looking villain, but a kindly old lady, gentle and unassuming.
When Police interviewed Dorothea Puentes, they didn’t suspect her.. at first. After all.. she’s Just a little old lady. Frail, white hair and sunken eyes. There’s no way she could have killed the people buried under her house.. But the old adage to never judge a book by its cover has never been more true than it is in this case. That frail old lady is a ruthless psychopath, and the home she buried her victims under, a national historic landmark, to be visited by curious onlookers for generations to come.
The story you are about to hear should convince you that murders don’t have to look like the devil to be one. In this episode, we present the Case of Dorothea Puentes, one of the most cited cases for level 15 on Dr. Michael Stone’s Gradations of Evil Scale.
About Dr. Michael Stone
“Dr. Michael Stone is a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia. His specialty is personality disorders - most especially “borderline personality disorder.” But in recent years he has concentrated as well on the extremes of personality, as shown by persons who show antisocial, psychopathic, and sadistic traits. This led to an interest in the kinds of people committing murder - spanning the spectrum from jealousy murders to serial killers and torturers. Recently he served as the host of the Discovery Channel show, “Most Evil,” for which he was sent around the country interviewing serial killers and murderers of other types. This experience, plus his research over the past twenty years, led to his writing The Anatomy of Evil (appearing in July of 2009). The book explores the “why” factor: what are the inborn and environmental factors that cause certain people to commit murder and, at the extreme end, to behave with uncommon cruelty toward their fellow man. Modeled after Dante’s Inferno, the book progresses from the least to the most “evil” crimes, and contains a chapter devoted to recent contributions from neuroscience toward understanding the mind of the psychopath.”
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