Control Freaks Gone Over the Edge

It appears as if Anie Le's accused killer, Raymond Clark, is being described by those who knew him a little differently than how accused killers are normally described.  The ABC News headline, "Raymond Clark's Co-Workers Describe Him as a 'Control Freak,' " marks the first time I can remember that a neighbor or co-worker hasn't described a man accused of a horrible murder or host of murders as a "quiet" or "nice" guy who "mostly kept to himself."

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/raymond-clark-silent-motive-annie-le-murder/story?id=8607846

While perusing through Barnes & Nobles Booksellers on Thursday, I noticed a book that claimed that 1 in 25 of us are psychologically capable of killing someone in a cold and calculating manner.  If that is indeed true, it's something for me to think about considering how many people I come across every day just walking around campus. 

I would think to kill someone so coldly, you would have to be an extremely self-centered person with very little respect or internal emphasis on the value of life.  To take something away from someone so dear and vital, is vile and offensive to any individual with any semblance of a heart.

Whether a person keeps it to his or herself or wears it on their sleeve- it would seem that a person who commits cold-calculating murder is a person with major control issues.  I can only  imagine that such a person sees the free will of others as far less significant than his or her own.  

In such a state of consciousness,  such a person's illusory sense of  domain increases exponentially to the point where they become quite capable of pulling the trigger, stabbing with the knife or strangling with the hands, in order to somehow appease their false sense of place in the world.