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Maybe ego will be what solves this case.

I am thinking of a case I saw on A&E a while back. It involved a monster named Spangler who was tried for pushing his wife off a cliff--claimed it was an accident--and when they dug into that case, they found that years earlier, his prior wife had "shot their two teenaged children, then shot herself."

They ended up charging him with three more murders for that earlier one.

They felt they had the evidence in the cliff murder case, but they needed to find out more about the so-called "murder-suicide" case. So they interviewed him, with his consent. The man made a comment about how the police should interview and study serial killers. The police replied, "Yeah, sure--but that wouldn't be you. You're not a serial killer. If you had done that one, it would have been just a mass murder." Well, believe it or not, it seems this Spangler must have felt that they dissed him--and he began to talk more candidly about what really had happened to his prior wife and two children. Ba da bing! (As another poster astutely said earlier.)

Then there was the Unabomber. He enjoyed getting away with something for about 18 years. Then suddenly this rude guy (or guys) comes along and upstages him by spectacularly annihilating a whole building full of people in Oklahoma City. I think the Unabomber was feeling upstaged. Next thing we know, he's writing stuff to major newspapers.

Ego!