He lived in a small NM town for 55 years without a criminal record. That in itself may be a record.
Agreed. He lived quietly and peacefully, apparently as a bit of a recluse, I gather. He didn't feloniously break into people's homes in the dead of night when he was a 20 year-old.
Perhaps he's not one of these overly-tolerant multi-cultural types who embraces the claimed rights of others to abuse him, damage and steal his property, and frighten the hell out of him in the middle of the night from a dead sleep. I think people somehow think he was supposed to clairvoyantly know who was breaking in and for some reason assume he should think they were doing it for his benefit. I don't buy the bathroom story at all and, even if it was true, what did these women think somebody in the house was going to think when they broke in his window at 3 am?
These people buying the media stories are only hearing from the prosecution, and they're already hooked into "homicidal retard", yet they have no idea if he's retarded or not. Retarded people tend to not sense danger when they should, so he may just be anti-social. Considering how the people of that town behave, he may be the most intelligent person living there if he's been deliberately avoiding contact with them. Further, people defending themselves and their property are not "retarded" for doing so. "Homicidal retards" don't wait until they're 55 years old to start acting out, that's for sure.