Originally Posted by
PoppaJo
An Airbus check Captain doesn’t fit the murderer profile. I nearly fell over when I heard the news reporting a checkie was arrested.
What's the profile of a murderer? History is littered with convicted killers who didn't fit the stereotype.
Ted Bundy was known as completely charming, a volunteer at a suicide helpline, tertiary educated, and murdered 33 women.
Richar Angelo was a nurse and volunteer firefighter who poisoned a number of his patients.
Harold Shipman was a respected UK doctor who murdered 15 of his patients then falsified medical records to indicate they were in poor health.
Same goes for "sudden killers" - people who have no previous record or pattern of poor behaviour. I haven't even got started on that one but it's a long, long list. Stereotypes are a powerful bias in our minds but ultimately the evidence either shows that they did, or they didn't.