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Case 252: Margaret Maher, Mersina Halvagis & Nicole Patterson

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The Unanswerable Question: How Did You Come to Be as You Are?

Experts still don't know what exactly motivated Peter DuPasse's crimes. Since his first attack as a 15-year-old, he has been unable or unwilling to provide any rational or honest explanation for his violent outbursts. The level of planning and rehearsal he undertook prior to committing his crimes is not normally associated with someone insane. In calls to sex phone worker Irene Langley, DuPasse described an attack that reflected Margaret Mars' murder but referred to his victim as his mother. There are also theories that DuPasse mutilated his victims because of insecurities he might have towards his own feminine-like breasts. He was deemed too dangerous to be let out in public

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