The Death of a Killer

Doctor frederick wortham defines these stages of criminal action as a catathymic crisis. These include an emotional build up that precipitates into the crime, a calmness after the crime that allows the person to behave normally, and finally, a resolution. According to criminologist donald j sears, sereal killers never reach this final stage of resolution. Instead, they'll be caught in a perpetual cycle of build up and release. And for ted, there was no doubt that he'd been consumed by this bloody feedback loop. On january twelfth, 19 75, 28 year old ted made his way to the ski town of snow mass village, colorado, where