If you explore the motivation for a crime
You’ll find it’s mostly originated from common desires
Such as jealousness, possessiveness
Sexual desire, impulse, anger
Desire for money and so on
My pseudonym is Wapi
And I have an PhD in cultural anthropology
I’ve written about lots of crime cases home and abroad
Most of them are murders
Such as the Black Dahlia, the Nanjing University Murder Case
Murder of Zhang Yingyin, Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
This is a family murder case happened in Colorado, the U.S.A in 2018
Chris Watts was a 33-year-old man known as a good husband and father
He strangled his wife to death in the early hours one morning
Then he smothered his two daughters, one at 3 and the other at 4, to death with a blanket
According to Chris Watts
After he strangled his wife to death
He found his two daughters seemly came to life
So he had to took them to the Petroleum and killed them again
Chris Watts was gentle
Or even weak
So people were confused by the contrast
Between his self-sacrificing and coward character
And the brutal crime he committed
As the investigation went deeper
The police found he was having an affair with a female colleague
Why didn’t he get a divorce
For a coward person
Murder is sometimes a shortcut
He was not brave enough to wage a war of divorce with his wife
So he chose to kill his wife and daughters to escape from the fight
Baiyin Serial Killing involves a series of murders
In Baiyin, Gansu Province and Baotou, Inner Mongolia from 1988 to 2002
At least 11 women were raped and killed
Usually when such a case happens, people tend to think
That the murderer is a single man with no access to sex
However, it generally turns out that the murder has a girlfriend or a wife
So he has an access to sex
He commits the crime usually because of their special fetish
Which tends to be creating pain or death
For example, the serial killer Gao Chengyong in this case
When he committed the first crime, he was not in a rush
But he didn’t take any of the woman’s belongings and he didn’t rape her
He just opened her legs and peered at her genitals
The youngest murders in Modern U.K. are two 10-year-old boys
They kidnapped a two-year-old boy and abused him to death
Under social pressure
The judge had to publicly name the two kids and added years to the sentence
One of the differences between juvenile criminals and adult criminals is that
They usually don’t do it for self-interest
They do it just for fun
So this case is typically committing brutal crime for fun
Abusing animals and serial killing also belong to the same type
The only solution is to cultivate children’s empathy
I grew up in a quite irrational family
When I was a child, we lived in an old family house
The neighbors said it was haunted
And we did hear strange sounds at night
Later my father found out the noises was made by several mice walking on the knife handle
So what I learned from my parents in childhood is that
There’re reasonable explanations behind things
It’s usually people’s imagination that creates horror
When I was in middle school, I read lots of detective novels
I especially like British female writer Agatha Christie
Now I mainly work through searching for relevant reports
Looking up to public documents such as written judgements and files
I also communicate with the family members of the victim
I comb through the case
And make logical analysis to discuss the truth
I intend to let people know that
Crime and darkness coexist with the good in the world
Behind the bizarre cases, there’re common desires
There’s an extended overlap between ordinary people and murders
What’s different is that the latter cross the line
I wish that the readers can understand themselves better after reading and keep alert