Hey everybody welcome back to coal case murder mysteries. I'm your host

Ryan Kraus here with you once again to pull back the curtain on yet another intriguing case that asks a very

important question about the criminal mind, which is this. Can a killer be redeemed? Perhaps more appropriately, we should ask,

Can a murderer learn the error of his ways through rehabilitation

and then subsequently be released into society and live as a peaceful loving human being.

The easy answer is that some people can, while others cannot or do not.

If you came home one day and discovered your spouse in bed with your best friend

and shot them both in the heat of the moment due to being overwhelmed by betrayal, shock, anger, and so forth, that generally

indicates a loss of control or even temporary insanity, but doesn't suggest the work of a sociopath or psychopath.

Occurances like this are especially prevalent in domestic disputes.

The participants can often be mentally stable people with no criminal history.

So I think there are numerous circumstances in which a killer could be rehabilitated.

On the other hand, if you're dealing with somebody who's a

psychopath and has already killed, it's a fact that person will never adopt the

empathy necessary to be harmless to others. Could the person possibly the without empathy nothing stops them from killing again.

So what the psychopath often does once he's killed,

as he'd been doing before he was exposed as well,

is feign empathy. If he wants to get out of trouble, it's especially true.

Think of Eric Harris, getting caught breaking into a van with Dylan Kleibold,

to steal somebody's electronics before the Columbine shootings.

He wrote an apology letter to the man and offered great sincerity about recognizing his wrongdoing and how he was sorry that it happened.

Meanwhile, in his own writings, intended for himself, he's in total disbelief that he can't just go take this guy's stuff from his van because the

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