Why Many Cold Blooded Killers Roam Free Among Us
Should all murders be persecuted?
If you think about the small mistakes in the countless decisions you make in one day, you will have a serious problem. Then multiply your mistakes by that of billions of people with human error, and you will have a disaster. That is the degree of noise our thoughts produce.
What makes these mistakes insidious is that they are rarely caused by conscious decision-making. Our imprecise human judgment produces unwanted variables that, according to the psychologist, are called perceptions or noises.
Mr. Parks, a 23-year-old Canadian, had large gambling debts. One night, while sleeping with his wife and child next to him, he got out of bed, got into his car, and drove 15 miles to the home of his wife’s parents. There he attacked them with a knife, killing his mother-in-law and seriously wounding his father-in-law.
Mr. Parks, realizing what he had done, went straight to the police and confessed to the murder. The police did not believe his story at first but they arrested him.
Parks was examined by a team of sleep specialists, who found that the pattern of brain waves that occurred while he was sleeping was abnormal.