Forensic Psychiatrist Explains The Shift From Suicide To Mass Murder | True Crime: Dissected Podcast

[00:00:00]Are they related?

[00:00:01]>> Yeah, absolutely they're connected. Uh not for every single case.

[00:00:05]So, obviously there are some terrorists that that commit terrorist acts without any kind of suicidal ideation or intention. But absolutely when you when you have cases like Dylann Roof, there is this despair that's kind of turned outwards. So, you have this intense personal, it might be depression, hopelessness, psychological pain, but instead of turning the pain inward, which is, you know, traditionally how people uh complete suicide, the individual blames society or a specific institution or a group for their failures, as we mentioned before.

[00:00:35]>> Yeah.

[00:00:36]>> Uh Roof was blaming black people. So, what happens is you have this like internal shift of of intention from suicide to murder. So, they've already decided their life is over, but instead of instead of uh they refuse basically to die quietly or to die alone, and it turns into this almost like this this righteous desire for retribution. And because they're already expecting to die, he's planned to die, has no fear of the police or prison. So, he's was almost like a sense of freedom in a way.