We have one in Comanche County next door, right on the square.
Posted on 02/21/2015 11:05:27 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
Capital murder defendant Eddie Ray Routh appeared to be faking insanity after his arrest and may have formed wild stories about “pig assassins” by watching reruns in his jail cell of Seinfeld and the Boss Hog reality show, a mental health expert testified Friday.
Dr. Randall Price, a forensic psychologist who frequently testifies as an expert witness, said Routh was overheard talking about the two shows in phone calls he made from the Erath County Jail.
“For a lot of time he’s talked about pigs with a lot of people,” he said. “It’s suspicious.”
An old episode of Seinfeld featured a character who claimed to have seen a creature that was half-man and half-pig. Boss Hog features a character known as “Pigman,” Price said
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This is going to be known is the Seinfeld Defense!
Surprised to learn he didn't try blaming this on "Slender Man" scare stories as the two young girls who murdered a peer are doing.
appeared to be faking insanity —
‘appeared’ ? to be ‘faking’ ?
Left out ‘alleged’
unbelievable .... someone should be scouting for the appropriate tall oak tree
” Boss Hog features a character known as “Pigman,” Price said”
Pigman is a series on the outdoor channel?
Pigman the series...
It is extremely hard to establish cause and effect for mental illness. Lots of people adopt crazy ideas from TV shows, but doing so is no indication of sanity or insanity.
For example, many people imagine that characters on TV are real people, not just actors portraying that character.
One that comes to mind was the TV show “The Equalizer” (1985–1989), which got a large number of letters addressed both to the main character, “Robert McCall”, and to the actor who portrayed him, Edward Woodward, begging for his(?) help because of real (and imagined) problems with criminals.
They even approached the TV production crew while filming, to beg for help. The standard response was to connect them to the police department, who actually *could* help them, if just for *real*, not imaginary, problems.
A far more common problem are people who integrate TV shows and movies into their own lives. A great example is that whenever a “UFO abduction” movie is shown in an area, within the next two weeks, people come forward claiming to have been abducted by space aliens. When questioned, the “aliens” they claim abducted them look just like those in the movie.
So the bottom line is yes, he likely got the idea from watching Seinfeld. However, he is not trying to deceive with that idea, but has integrated it into his otherwise, diagnosed with mental illness, mind.
Of course he made everything up. He may be a sick monster but everything I’ve read points to him craving attention rather than being insane or having PTSD. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
A few days ago it was space aliens and now it’s pig people. So, which is it, huh? That’s what happens when you tell so many lies you can’t keep up with them.
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