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Dr. Michael Stone’s Scale Of Evil
What Motivates A Person to Kill?
Dr. Michael Drane breaks down each category on the scale, bringing you forensic insight and narrative analysis. Each episode contains a fascinating examination into the psychology of murder. We promise to bring you every Level with the intuition, grit, humor and honesty you have come to expect from us.
Episode 14: Buried Alive
Episode 13: Torture Murders
Episode 12: Psychological Gratification Of Murder
Episode 11: The Abbotsford Killer
Episode 10: Death House Landlord
Episode 9: Mommy & Clyde
Episode 8: Inadequate & Rageful
Episode 7: Cornered Killers
Episode 6: Psychopathic In The Way Killers
Episode 5: In The Way Killers
Episode 4: Jealous Lovers
Episode 3: Hot Heads & Fits of Rage
Episode 2: Provoked Self-Defense & Desperate Measures
Episode 1: Self-Defense Murder
Bonus Episode: The Case of Jeffrey McDonald
Bonus Episode: Our Interview With The Authors Of ‘The New Evil’
Dr. Michael Stone
Dr. Michael Stone is a Psychiatrist and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University College in New York City. He authored and published “The Anatomy of Evil” in 2009. Click Here to order the book on Amazon. Dr. Stone created this scale after interviewing hundreds of convicted murderers, where he categorizes the murders based on the killer’s plan, level of psychopathy, motive and their prevalence towards violence. In 2019, Dr.’s Michael Stone and Gary Brucato published a follow up novel, “The New Evil”, where they revisit the Gradations of Evil Scale in even more detail. Click here to buy it from Amazon.
The Gradations of Evil Scale (Levels 1-22)
1. Justified Homicide
2. Jealous Lovers, Non-Psychopathic
3. Willing Companions Of Killers
4. Provocative "Self-Defense"
5. Desperate Measures
6. Hot Heads
7. Narcissists
8. Fit of Rage
9. Jealous Lovers, Psychopathic
10. "In The Way" Killers, Not Fully Psychopathic
11. "In The Way" Psychopaths
12. Power-Hungry And Cornered
13. Inadequate And Rageful
14. Schemers
15. Cold-Blooded Spree
16. Vicious Psychopaths
17. The Sexually Perverse
18. Torturing Murderers
19. Non-Homicidal Psychopaths
20. Murdering Torturers
21. Pure Torturers
22. Psychopathic Torture-Murderers
Dr. Michael Stone’s “Most Evil” Show
“Most Evil is an American forensics television program on Investigation Discovery presented by forensic psychiatrist Dr. Michael H. Stone of Columbia University during Seasons 1 & 2; and by forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie during Season 3.[1] On the show, the presenter rates murderers on a scale of evil that Stone himself has developed. The show features profiles on various murderers, serial killers, and mass murder of various degrees of psychopathy.”
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