Charles Lee “Cookie” Thornton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkwood_City_Council_shooting
A bankruptcy that doesn’t clear debt and leaves a man burdened to the point of been shackled for many years is also a motive for such outrage turned into ‘random lash-out’ murder. Thorton was shackled into a payment load, post-bankruptcy, of over $4,000 a month. That’s not a clearing bankruptcy.
I do not know what the post-bankruptcy load of the Connecticut was. But clearly he was harassed by of debt collectors, meaning that this era’s easy up-front credit and loan policies trapped him in them.
There’s no excuse for such killings, but it is obvious that the desperation a man in mid-life can feel from being shackled to a lifetime burden of debt or settlement payments is a ancient motive for such ‘lash-out’ violence and crime.