No.14 Disciple: Death Puzzle

Chapter 24 Empathy
"Is this a criminal psychology course?" Zhuo Qingshan approached the girl's ear, "Why does your school offer this course?"

"This is an elective course offered in the last two months. Hey? Aren't you a policeman? You must know about that perverted murderer? Just put your underwear on..."

What the girl was talking about was the serial murder case committed by Guo Keji. "The school thought it was necessary to raise students' safety awareness, so the dean asked Mr. An to discuss it, and Mr. An proposed to open this elective course. He said that safety education is not as good as knowing the mechanism of crime in psychology... "

Although Zhuo Qingshan listened attentively to the girl's muttering, her attention was entirely on An Youlin.

An Youlin pointed to the photo of the man on the projection screen and said: "Just like this 'Green River Killer' Gary Ridgway, who holds the title of 'America's Most Murderous Serial Killer', he killed at least 49 women in Washington State , Most of them are prostitutes. As a child, he had poor academic performance, set fire to and killed stray cats. When he was a teenager, he almost stabbed a six-year-old boy to death for no reason.

"Ridgway confessed after his arrest that after killing one of his victims, he placed sausages, salmon and wine on the victim's body in a scene from The Last Supper. According to his three wives Narrative, Ridgway likes to have sex in the open air. Afterwards investigation found that the open air place where the sex was held was very close to the place where the corpse was hidden.

"Of course, Ridgeway's various characteristic performances in life did not arouse the vigilance of those around him. In other words, his performance is hard to think that he is a perverted serial killer.

"When Ridgway was asked why he picked prostitutes, he said it was because prostitutes were the easiest to forget and the easiest to catch, and they were rarely listed as missing. Of course, in the case of the 'Green River Killer' , The victims have special identities, and their gray occupations created opportunities for Ridgway to commit crimes. However, no one knows the reason for Ridgway's murder."

Next, An Youlin introduced the content of the course to a domestic case that was hotly discussed at the time. A girl alone sent a pregnant woman home who asked for help, but was brutally murdered by the pregnant woman and her husband.After being arrested, the couple's statements were chilling. The pregnant wife believed that she was not a virgin when she got married, and wanted to find a virgin for her husband and rape her to compensate her husband.

When An Youlin asked what precautions the victim should take beforehand, a girl raised her hand to signal An Youlin.

"Mr. An, I have a question. Do you mean that the victim is responsible? It's a popular saying in society now, the victim is guilty?"

An Youlin smiled and waved his hands, stood on the podium and said to everyone: "The victims are not guilty subjectively and objectively, but they have a connection with the perpetrator anyway. Now if I think something has been done If a case happened to remind someone to be cautious when doing something to avoid danger, someone would remind me that I was blaming the victim.

"Some people will say that police enforcement should be strengthened, and penalties for such cases should be increased, including the execution of the death penalty, additional surveillance on the roads, installation of more streetlights on dark streets, etc." An Youlin He waved his hands as he spoke, "But it turns out that this has a very limited effect on reducing the crime rate.

"The victim is indeed innocent, but the case happened to an innocent and innocent person. So where is the problem? This goes back to the perpetrator. I just mentioned that many perpetrators of crimes There are many psychopaths in China, so can the psychology and behavior of psychopaths be fully understood?"

There was a silence in the classroom at first, and An Youlin also indulged the students to think in this silence.After a long time, a boy said in a strong voice: "If conditions permit, it can be understood."

An Youlin nodded and motioned the boy to continue talking. The boy frowned and continued, "Now that you know the abnormal characteristics of the perpetrators, you should be able to know the law of their crimes!"

After the boy finished speaking, he waited nervously for An Youlin's reply.An Youlin nodded, scratched his disheveled hair, and said: "It is theoretically possible, but this kind of situation often happens after the case, which means that at least one victim must be paid. And the so-called understanding , is just our wishful thinking.”

There was no sound in the classroom. Because Zhuo Qingshan had just arrived in the classroom, she did not blend in like other students. She quietly watched the students in front of her. The classmates around me were arguing in low voices, shaking their heads from time to time.

"Well, come, come, can any student explain what I mean by 'understanding'?" After a while of silence, a buzzing discussion followed.An Youlin stroked his beard with his thumb, and said loudly: "Can you stop discussing in a small group, and share it with everyone!"

After finishing speaking, An Youlin pointed to a girl in the middle row. The girl was startled, pointed at herself suspiciously and said to An Youlin, "Is it me?"

An Youlin nodded quickly: "Tell me your opinion!" "I... I think the 'understanding' that the teacher refers to is knowing the criminal's psychological experience when he committed the crime?"

An Youlin nodded, not answering right or wrong.He asked the girl to sit down, and then pointed to the back row of the classroom: "The beauty in the last row, tell me."

As soon as they heard An Youlin calling her a beauty, the girls in the classroom couldn't help but look towards the back row, only to see that the direction An Youlin was pointing at was Zhuo Qingshan's position.However, Zhuo Qingshan was sitting in the same seat as the girl next to her, so she wasn't sure who she was talking about. "The girl in the aisle."

An Youlin added, referring specifically to Zhuo Qingshan.The girl next to Zhuo Qingshan pouted, a little unhappy, but she still whispered to Zhuo Qingshan: "Fortunately, it's you, if it's another girl, I'm definitely not happy..."

Zhuo Qingshan stood up, and under the gaze of the students in the front row, she replied: "The 'understanding' you mentioned refers to empathy, being able to fully understand the psychological feelings of the perpetrator."

An Youlin scratched his hair and nodded to indicate that Zhuo Qingshan could sit down. "In fact, there is no real empathy in this world. Due to individual differences, each person's life experience, growth process, and differences in benign and negative events encountered in life, it is impossible to produce exactly the same experience under the same external stimulus. experience."

While An Youlin was swaying and talking, the students below began to record one after another. Some students even brought laptops. For a while, the classroom was full of the sound of pens rubbing against paper and keyboards.

"Just like the cases we have mentioned before, the motives of many perverted killers are not understood by people, and the psychological analysis of the perverted killers by psychologists after the crime is still within our understanding " An Youlin was spreading his hands to the crowd in a helpless manner, "But who can guarantee that the motives of the perpetrators we will encounter next are within our understanding? Some psychopaths are not afraid of any punishment , and even punishment has some kind of symbolic meaning worth enjoying for them..."

Zhuo Qingshan stared at the students in the front row, and many people couldn't help whispering when they heard this.

"Tut tsk tsk," An Youlin shook his head to himself, with a helpless look, "There is nothing wrong with it. In order to ensure safety, a lot of precautions are necessary. For example, someone comes home from get off work late at night. , chose a remote, dark, and seldom-passed path, and was attacked by gangsters. Afterwards, some people said that the victim should not walk the lonely path alone at night, and some people would criticize, "should not walk the lonely path alone." .' is a fall on the victim."

An Youlin slowed down his speech, and he asked the students to go through what he just said in their minds.

"The victim is innocent, and the perpetrator should be punished. However, the perverted psychology of many perpetrators is beyond our comprehension, and unfortunately, as I said before, the current widely circulated measures have no effect on preventing perverted killers from committing crimes." The effect is too small to eradicate, so what can we do?"

The students were chatting loudly again, and the climax of the discussion was over. A girl wearing glasses slowly raised her hand holding a ballpoint pen: "We can't prevent this kind of crime from happening at all, but we can reduce it." The probability of occurrence, the conditions for blocking occurrence."

An Youlin touched the mustache on his chin. "That's right," he staggered down the podium, came to the first row, and raised his face to look at the crowd, "Don't think that the perverted killer is far away from us, even if the murderer is arrested after the first murder, the price It’s a person’s life, so please protect yourselves.”

After speaking, An Youlin glanced at the time on his watch and announced that get out of class was over.The students got up slowly with still not enough to say, as if there was something more interesting that they hadn't heard.Zhuo Qingshan was not in a hurry to go against the direction of the crowd towards the podium, she saw that An Youlin's female fans had already surrounded the podium.

(End of this chapter)