Robert Lewis Dear

Paranoid Schizophrenic

Planned Parenthood Attack

By Lynn A. Granata

When you see him, you say yes, he looks "as stressed out as stressed can be."

He is Robert Lewis Dear, a crazy man with a gun who targeted innocent men and women at an abortion clinic in Colorado.  He killed a former olympian ice skater and police officer, Garret Swasey.

Robert Lewis Dear mugshot.

"U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is calling the shootings in Colorado Springs a crime against women receiving health care services at Planned Parenthood.

In a statement Saturday night, Lynch calls the attack not only a crime against the local community but a crime against law enforcement seeking to protect and to serve, against other innocent people, and against the rule of law as well as all Americans’ right to safety and security."(Campbell, November 28, 2015).

The nation’s top law enforcement officer says federal officials stand ready to offer any and all assistance to the district attorney and state and local law enforcement in Colorado as they move forward with their investigation. (Campbell, November 28, 2015).

Lynch also says her thoughts and prayers are with the shooting victims, including slain police officer Garrett Swasey. She says Swasey gave his life in order to keep others safe. (Campbell, November 28, 2015).

Dear, was originally from Louisville, KY.  He lived in South Carolina in a makeshift shack in the woods that has no running water or heat-terrible, isn't it? But recently he was living in a mobile home in a large vacant snow-covered field. This guy was out of touch with reality as far as can be. All he wanted was to be left alone.  He has violent tendencies too.  

His former wife told the authorities what he did to her, he raped her, and locked her out of their home, and as she tried to regain entry through a window, he pushed her out of the window injuring her. What a beast this guy was. 

He lived like a dirt bag in a house with no running water, guess he used the woods as his bathroom-disgusting. He was paranoid all he thought was that the government was spying on him. Who knows if he'll try to use the insanity defense to get off on to a lesser charge? I doubt it though.  He caused too much damage. Shooting a policeman. Then several civilians, killed many of them.  He lacks remorse and was oufitted with a special vest for his own protection when he appeared in court yesterday for his arraignment before a judge. 

Now that he is in jail, presumably he will get his cocktail of anti-psychotic meds on a regular basis.

Reference

Article by Shanay J. Campbell

Published: November 28, 2015, 10:12 am  Updated: November 29, 2015, 5:18 am

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Eddy Ray Routh

An American Disgrace Malingerer

By Lynn A. Granata

Back in February 2013, a schizophrenic former US Marine Corporal shot and killed two great American Navy SEALS Heroes because "he thought that they were out to steal his soul."

Eddy Ray Routh mugshot at the time of his arrest

So, at least that's what his defense counsel corroborated in a Stephenville, Texas court room earlier this year.  January 2015 is when the double homicide trial for one Eddy Ray Routh took place in Texas.  Routh was about to argue that he was under going a psychotic break with reality at the time when he committed the two murders.
The prosecution had a far different story to tell, though, stick around and I'll tell you more.

Routh was a drug addict since he was a teenager. He regularly used marijuana and cannabis to get high, which made him have unusual and vivid auditory hallucinations.  In addition to the voices, he had delusions as well. He thought that the world was out to literally "get him" and "eat him."

 He was discharged from the Marines because of his severe mental illness.  He lost jobs after he reverted back to civilian life. His mother, Jodi had to take him places because he couldn't drive.  But Routh wasn't insane the prosecution asserted, because while he was out at a shooting range with both Navy SEALS Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield, respectively, he knew the difference between right and wrong.

The insanity defense is hard to prove in American Courts of Law, it carries a very high bar, you have to meet the totally insane threshold, and there's no guarantee that any defendant using it will get it.  Being a paranoid schizophrenic like Eddy Routh will not merely automatically give him pardon, thus putting him in a psychiatric hospital instead of a maximum security prison cell.

To sum up the story, the unfortunate victims Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield were asked to go to Routh's home by Routh's mother, Jodi.  Jodi felt that since Routh knew these two well sung war heroes from when he was in the Marine Corps, they would be able to take him out somewhere so that he could get a chance to talk out his problems with them.

Unfortunately, the two took Routh to a very dangerous place, a shooting range.  Routh shot the two men because "he thought that they wanted to take his soul." Chris Kyle was a war hero during the Iraqi War in 2003 and he filmed a movie about a day in the life of his time there.  He earned the upmost respect as a military man who helped to save America. The movie was filmed in the foothills of Afganistan.  Chad Littlefield was his colleague during their time served in battle overseas.

Chris Kyle a Navy SEALS Commander

Routh stole Chris Kyle's Ford Chevy Bronco, and fled to his sister's home a couple of miles away from the crime scene. Routh's sister and her husband summoned the police, and Routh was captured and arrested.
It's been speculated that Routh was malingering during his trial so that he'd get a lesser sentence, although he did suffer from paranoid schizophrenia.  He was taking risperidone for a while, and was under lockdown in a psychiatric ward previously, for his violent outbursts toward neighbors and members of his immediate family.  A jury sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole in February, 2015.

The Honey Moon Killers,

 First Couple to Meet the Electric Chair

By Lynn A. Granata

Who were the Honey moon killers?

At first, I wondered as well.

They were two lame miscreants a total mismatch.  She was morbidly obese.  He was a fledgling drifter of Mexican descent.

The Honey moon Killers scene from the 1970 movie.

But what they did could break the record for the fastest and most undetectable crime spree ever known.
Martha Beck was obese and lacked self- esteem. She was a nurse who juggled full-time in a hospital and was taking care of her aged mother. One day, however, a friend called her and mailed a personals ad in a newspaper to her. Martha looked through it attentively, and found a man she liked. His name was Raymond Fernandez.

Martha (left) watches enviously while Raymond passionately kisses their next unassuming victim.

So, they agreed to meet. Martha's mom however, was concerned that Martha started missing appointments to go see her in the nursing home. Martha's mother became angry and then disowned her. Remember disownment isn't normal for any family member at any age, space, and time. Martha's mother was in the end stages of Alzheimer's disease. A disease that back then was simply called old age dementia. So her mother was technically would've been labeled a paranoid schizophrenic by today's standards.

She and Raymond agreed to start a crime spree campaign which spanned several states across America. Raymond was like a gigolo, who didn't have the gravitas to treat a lady with love and respect. Instead he was a thug that conned every woman that he met through the personals like his personal piggy bank. Martha at first, was high on his list.

The two of them traveled together. Raymond navigated the trips with his personals ad in the newspaper. Where they traveled to was contingent on what fish Raymond could catch while he baited women through his ad's description of himself, he hoped to find not just any woman, but a wealthy one. There was a wealthy dowager he and Martha met. Problem was he only would introduce Martha to them as his sister.

Raymond got them in bed, then talked them out of their bank accounts.
Raymond would get the money, then kill the victim, by bludgeoning them.

There were a few who were poisoned. And then left for dead. Until one day the fun ended forever. The last dowager was hip to his antics. She nearly corralled the two of them, until Raymond killed her first. Then Martha called the police. They were arrested and charged with robbery, first degree murder, and conspiracy. The twain were sentenced to die an execution by electric chair. They were fried in March 1951 at Sing Sing Prison in New York.

Endnote: Personal ads existed back then. The stigma of meeting a person through a personal ad existed just as much then as it does today. Bottom line never meet in a deserted area go with a friend and meet at a public place, such as a coffee shop. Today's dating scene is like a jungle, just a word to the wise stay safe.