Swedish Study Confirms What We Already Know: Murderers Are Nuts.

Apologies for the last post, all three of my readers. I was tired and got carried away. :-P

Anyway...

So a study for the Swedish scientific magazine Forskning och Framsteg recently uncovered what most people were already pretty darn sure of.

Murderers are nuts.

(This is the part where we say with dripping sarcasm: "No! Really? You mean people that take the lives of other people have some sort of mental problem? Wow, I could not tell.")

But in a study of 2,000 people-who-kill-people revealed that 90% had at least one mental illness from the following list: schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety, post-traumatic stress or depression. Many had two or more. And half were substance abusers.

Gee, y'think?

File that under "Duh."

What disturbs me most, however, is that there are still a big chunk that are NOT nuts, but still manage to end people's lives. That, my friends, is the scary part.