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Shell Lake Massacre

Canadian True Crime

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Skitz Phrenia

Victor was released from a mental hospital three weeks before the massacre. Lawyer decided not to have him examined by same psychiatrist who discharged him. Instead, found other doctors with experience of skitz phrenia. Doctor abram hoffer co-invented diagnostic test for scis phronia. Victor scored 99 on it when tested in preparation for trial. He told doctor hoffer he didn't feel guilty because he was only doing what the devil told him to do. Also said he was certain that god wasn't angry with him. Said he felt more remorse for gun burglaries he had committed in his teens than obliteration of peterson family at his own hand.

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