Neil Entwistle on trial in killings of wife, infant

[PepperFritz]

So my question would be - what would be a reason for them to lie like this?

I don't think it is conscious "lying". People see what they expect to see, and they certainly don't expect to see a father smiling at his own child's bloody body. In their minds only a "monster" would do that, and Entwhistle is a good-looking guy who doesn't look like a "monster". Most people's evaulations don't extend much beyond that level of thinking.

I'm suspect whoever wrote the piece has doubts about Entwhistle's guilt (i.e., like others who are supporting him, have been taken in by his psychopathic "charm") and therefore has an emotional need to look for (and find!) signs that point to his "innocence". If he is "seen" to be deeply upset at the video, sobbing, with tears rolling down his face, well, he obviously couldn't have so coldly murdered his wife and child as he is accused of doing.

Entwhistle's crime is deeply disturbing because it is so incomprehensible. Serial killers who murder at random are far more "understandable". They look like and behave like the "monsters" they are. But an educated, good-looing man like Entwhistle? Killing his own wife and child, and calmly walking away? It makes no sense. He could be your next door neighbour, and the implications of that... do not bear thinking about....

 

[anart]

But an educated, good-looing man like Entwhistle? Killing his own wife and child, and calmly walking away? It makes no sense. He could be your next door neighbour, and the implications of that... do not bear thinking about....

I think what SAO meant by 'none of the answers are good' - is that this is exactly why the writer would be consciously lying. Psychopaths KNOW that the most important thing in the world to their survival and control is that normal human beings do not understand them, or know that they exist as they do, in the form they do, in the numbers they do.

Thus - when such a blatant display is made by a psychopath who does not fall within the publicly (psychopathically defined) definition of what a psychopath is - some 'social engineering' is required. Define what the man was doing so that people who then see the video see it through the lens of that definition.

It's just a possibility, but worth considering, osit.

 

[Mayb]

The scarriest thing is that I would also accept their comments and avoid to check myself if somebody did not pointed out... :( , how many things I have probably ignored and take for granted...

 

[piranah]

'Psychopaths KNOW that the most important thing in the world to their survival and control is that normal human beings do not understand them, or know that they exist as they do, in the form they do, in the numbers they do.'

Anart you have it right. The very fact we as humans hate to see the bad in people leads to all kind of evil and the psychopath takes full advantage of the fact that if he acts in a certain way we will treat him and include him. We are constantly told not to make split second judgements or rely on gut feelings but actually they are often the best instinctive guide points. Neil Entwistle has obviously learned at a young age how to pull the wool over his parents eyes and they refuse to see, because it would be too horiffic, that he has done this evil act of killing two innocents. As the ones who brought him up they would have to shoulder some of the guilt too. I have more sympathy for these killers if they own up and take the treatment but this guy he smears the name of the mother of his daughter whose only sin was to fall in love with him and his fake exterior. Thus adding more pain and heartache to the parents of his dead wife. If he was so worried as he says about covering up the fact his wife had killed herself and the baby then why not just take the blame on himself completely from the start and say he did it and carry it as a secret to his grave? Who did he think everyone would think had done it when he hid the gun back at his father in laws house? This story stinks and we all smell it.