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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

The Perfect Neighbor Delusion: Psychotherapist on How Fear Becomes a Weapon

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels to unpack the warped psychology behind The Perfect Neighbor case — where “fear” became justification for a killing.

For two years, Susan Lorincz saw danger in ordinary life: neighborhood kids, laughter, noise. That chronic hyper-vigilance — mixed with grievance and entitlement — built a narrative that only she believed. Scott explores how paranoia and cognitive distortion feed on isolation, turning imagined threat into moral crusade.

From micro-aggressions to the myth of the “good citizen,” this interview asks what happens when anxiety weaponizes itself and empathy disappears. Scott also offers trauma-informed insights for the secondary victims — Ajike Owens’ children — and explains how communities can recognize early warning signs before another tragedy repeats.

#ThePerfectNeighbor #ShavaunScott #AjikeOwens #HiddenKillersPodcast #TonyBrueski #TrueCrimeAnalysis #FearVsReality #TraumaPsychology #BehavioralHealth #StandYourGround


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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels.

0:08.8

Chavon Scott is with us right now.

0:10.5

We are talking about the perfect neighbor, the doc that's on Netflix right now,

0:15.3

that talks about the Susan Lorenz case,

0:18.8

where she ended up shooting her neighbor because she didn't like the sound

0:23.3

of children playing outside and viewed her as a clear and present danger. It's, it is an absolutely

0:30.4

crazy story. Race is something that gets brought up very, very commonly in this case, in this story

0:37.3

specifically. But I want to,

0:39.2

I want to walk that back for a second and just, I guess, ask the question, does race play a huge

0:45.7

role in this? Or would this have been the same story? Had these kids been all white, had these

0:51.0

kids been, you know, anything, really? Is it, Is it just the fact that there was another entity, another human being or multiple

1:00.0

human beings around her that irritated her?

1:03.1

Was it about race in this?

1:04.8

Or was it just more about you are making me uncomfortable?

1:09.4

And I just want peace and quiet no matter what.

1:13.8

It's hard to say.

1:15.2

It's hard to say without talking to her about her beliefs.

1:18.9

If I had to make a guess, I would say that, yeah, she was probably pretty deeply racist because of the things that came out of her mouth.

1:27.2

And she would

1:28.0

use racial slurs at the kids. So people who have these tendencies to look for, you know, I was

1:36.9

talk about the us and them about, you know, us that we like are people like us, that them are the

1:43.0

people who are different from us that we

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