Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "Here's what we know about suspect arrested for Idaho college killings" video.

  1.  @classicalaid1  Dostoevsky's book is called Crime and Punishment. It's very long, and depressing; the protagonist is a student who is dirt poor, and his family is dirt poor, and he murders an old woman. He's not trying to see if he's smart enough to get away with it; he thinks that he might be superior and above the ordinary moral laws, and he's trying to test himself to see whether he can break the moral law against murder, without being punished by God or by his own conscience. (SPOILER: He can't. He almost kills himself but eventually confesses. The detective who takes his confession was the inspiration for the creators of the detective Columbo on the TV series of that name.) There's another book which explores a similar theme - an independent adolescent who commits murder just as an experiment to learn more about the nature of morality, but this one is kind of the opposite of Crime and Punishment ; it's a short, fast-moving comedy about an independent streetwise adolescent who inherits a large fortune. Part of the plot involves a gang of con-artists who pose as priests and raise money from gullible aristocrats by telling them that the Pope has been abducted by Freemasons and been replaced with a puppet/fake-Pope, and they (the confidence-men, posing as priests) need money to try to rescue the real Pope. This beautiful book is called Les Caves du Vatican and it's sold in English translation under the titles The Vatican Cellars and Lafcadio's Adventures (Lafcadio is the name of the protagonist-boy.) The author is Andre Gide, who later won a Nobel Prize in literature for another book. But these novels are both very different stories from what this guy allegedly did, besides being works of fiction.
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  2.  @JaneOnTheJourney  He probably wanted to get caught. He was caught by DNA, and video-surveillance, and using an Uber to get away from the neighborhood where he committed the murders. He must have known that he'd get caught.
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  3.  @imhere653  I don't like a lot of blood. I'd be more likely to use poison or a blunt instrument. Or, just talk and bore the victim to death. Or force him to listen to me singing until he committed suicide rather than hear any more.
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  4. The presumption of innocence in USA is a joke, in so many ways.....
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  5.  @imhere653  No brain, no pain.
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  6.  @imhere653  I was thinking of something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMshbiE-Uxo
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