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Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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The Manipulation of Male Serial Killers

Most male serial killers that is part of the motivation they're hunting. They exercise a few things starting, it usually starts with manipulation. And then when they have that, they like to humiliate the victim. Sex is generally a part of it. The average IQ is what? A hundred. So many of them are above that. There is one in particular, I'm aware of Edmund Kemper, the coed killer. He actually realized he was killing young women because he hated his mother. It's such an interesting combination of the animal and super intellectual thing is weird.

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