Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and I have ben loving the Shane Dawson Sociopath series
so I have decided to make the Top 10 Scary Sociopaths throughout history.
What a sociopath is something that shane is trying to get to the bottom of…
It is basically a personality disorder that is characterised by certain traits, like rarely
feeling guilt, remorse or shame, constant lying and unreliability, recklessness, impulsive
behaviour and having a hard time with the concept of love Still, it's an noty a exact
science.
People with so-called sociopathic traits can also appear charming because they may be confident,
bold, and the life of the party.
But, according to the Shane documentary, there is no reasoning with a sociopath, they will
not care about you and use other people as tools or objects.
A lot of these people turn to crime…so…are there any identifiable sociopaths through
history?
Jake Paul Well this is very much the topic of conversation
surrounding sociopaths right now, isn’t it.
Shane Dawson’s series, the mind of Jake Paul, spends hours trying to determine whether
or not he is a sociopath.
The 21 year old Youtuber has over 17 million Youtube subscribers and is known for his obnoxious
Team 10 Antics.
In Shane’s docuseries he discusses how Jake seems to be power hungry, unpredictable, bold,
unconcerned with danger and seemingly not compassionate towards others – all the markings
of a sociopath.
Is Youtube as a platform encouraging his behaviour I guess the scary thing is that someone so
popular and adored and looked up to by kids could well be a sociopath.
Will they grow up to think it is cool to play cruel pranks on their friends in order to
chase power and fame?
The jury is still out on whether or not Jake might be a sociopath, but I can’t wait to
see the rest of Shane’s series.
I sense that Jake himself is nervous about it.
Earlier this week he tweeted: I love Shane & am trusting him 2 carry out the rest of
the series..
I hope he can actually make it clear WHO I AM & WHY I’ve done certain things & SHOW
the side of me that no one has ever seen..
That’s why I agreed to do the series.. the “sociopath” STUFF doesn’t interest me..
I guess the only thing im concerned about is that you still haven’t made it clear
that you’re DETERMINING wether or not I am a sociopath...
Some sociopaths have an innate need for power and they do not see a problem abusing people…some
sociopaths have flown under the radar, others have had their worlds come crashing down when
they have been outed….
Luckily this sociopath was stopped in his tracks when a vast number of women called
him out – we have Harvey Weinstein at number 9
So we know that the powerful Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein was a sex predator,
but was he a sociopath?
If the words of his accusers and the people who worked with him are anything to go by,
then perhaps.
To the outside world, Harvey was charming, charismatic, charitable and powerful but behind
doors he was a narcissist, manipulative, angry, a pathological liar and a predator.
Now, over 50 women have accused him of either directly abusing them or behaving inappropriately
towards them.
There us an excellent article on Just Not Said blogspot that deconstructs Weinstein’s
personality and why it is fitting for a sociopath.
It is a longer read, but worth it if you have time.
The article holds him as a sociopath specifically because of his natural flair for manipulation
and his ability to see people as tools and objects.
They also argue his reaction since the scandal has revealed his emotional falseness.
Was he a sociopath as well as a sexual predator?
Quite possibly.
It is estimated that 4% of the population are sociopaths, which means there are hundreds
of millions out there.
Obviously not all sociopaths are cruel, callous people…but it seems that this 4% are responsible
for 50% of crimes and are more predisposed to murder.
With that in mind, the rest of the sociopaths on this list have either been found guilty
of murder or been linked to killings….
8 - OJ Simpson Is OJ Simpson a sociopath?
That is something that Shane Dawson alludes to in his Mind of Jake Paul Video.
OJ Simpson Was a former well known NFL player when his wife, Nicole Brown was famously murdered,
along with her friend Ron Goldman in 1994.
While a jury found him not guilty, it has been frequently suggested that he absolutely
did.
As well as being a sportsman, Simpson was an actor and participated in brand endorsements.
He held himself in high esteem, was charismatic and had a lot of power.
A lot of known sociopaths have been outed as such when they commit crimes that they
are seemingly unaffected by.
After the death of Nicole, Simpson threaten to commit suicide and cried tears at his trials.
The thing is with Sociopaths, though, is that they will do anything to save their own skin,
even faking normal human emotion.
The police officer, Detective Tome Lange, who convinced Simpson not to kill himself
on that notorious police chase, has since given interviews in which he has said he thinks
Simpson is a Sociopath.
Again, we don’t know for sure, but he does fit the profile.
Sociopaths need someone to control…which is worth baring in mind as we discuss Jodi
Arias at number 7 Jodi has popped up on a few of our lists -she
is the woman who mercilessly killed her boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008.
Jodi has been called the living embodiment of a sociopath by a number of people, perhaps
most notably a university crime expert.
She was seemingly charming and polite, but was harbouring a dark side – notably a deep
need to control.
When she found her boyfriend was losing interest she stabbed him 27 times as well as shooting
him.
When at trial she showed no remorse or emotion in general.
When she was incarcerated she displayed her need to control by becoming possessive over
her cellmate, even tattooing her name on her.
Her former cellmate also claimed she was a sociopath.
Was she a jealous ex girlfriend, or was she a cold hearted sociopath?!
6 - John Wayne Gacy John Wayne Gacy is a classic model of a sociopath.
Outwardly to his community he acted jovial – he was charming and his community liked
him.
He was known to dress up as a clown at local barbeques and generally blended in.
Behind closed doors, though, he killed 33 men and his them in the crawl space of his
house.
Gacy began to give the game away when he divorced his wife – he began to lose that power that
sociopaths need, as well as a wife character to present him as a normal man.
His carefully constructed veneer began to crack.
After he was found out ad arrested for the killing of the young men, Gacy denied the
murders – then when he was held accountable by the evidence, he tried to pass off the
blame to accomplices.
Clearly Gacy had a complete lack of empathy for others and did not believe that rules
applied to him.
5 - Ian Brady Ian Brady has often been called the Killer
with no remorse and that certainly seems to be the case.
The male Moors Murderer certainly fits the role of sociopath – he lacked empathy and
remorse, he was volatile but intelligent, he was impulsive and charming.
He did not feel rules applied to him.
As an adult, he kept a low profile – working as a punctual and quiet employee at a chemical
distribution company.
His accomplice, Myra Hindley, was not a sociopath – she fell in loved with Brady to the point
of obsession.
For his part, he knew he could control her…and sociopaths love control.
Hindley showed remorse and emotional grief over her part in the killing of 5 youths.
Brady never did.
In jail he was diagnosed as a psychopath and, as the jig was up, he wanted only to live
in solitary confinement.
4 - Delphine LeLaurie A lack of emotion means that Sociopaths need
to work hard to try and showcase a sense of humanity… but what happens when they are
exposed?
. Delphine LeLaurie was a socialite and murderess.
She married three times and was widowed twice – her first two husbands were members of
high society that secured her in her quest for power, he third husband was a younger,
but still wealthy, man that she could manipulate.
Delphine liked power and status and was at one point a very well-respected socialite
in New Orleans.
It seems LeLaurie had a temper and in private tortured her slaves – in public, she would
appear nice to them.
Her depravity and abuse of power was only discovered when a fire broke out in her home
and exposed her torture chamber and imprisoned slaves.
It was also discovered she tortured slaves to death, then burying them in her garden.
She fled to France to maintain her reputation and status.
3 - Hitler Adolph Hitler was charming and well spoken…and
hell bent on power.
He was a master manipulator and managed to work his way from nothing to becoming the
unelected supreme leader of an entire country.
Hitler was behind the deaths of millions of people and showed no remorse.
He had a girlfriend, later wife, although many she attempted suicide twice as she felt
he didn’t love her.
Of course sociopaths can’t love anyone…so perhaps this was an early clue.
Like sociopaths throughout history, Hitler was volatile and angry in private.
It is likely his whole ideology was a sick, glorified power trip.Hitler, however, did
have a penchant for painting, which has lead some people to question his ability to fulfill
the sociopath role – art is of course a emotional expression – but if you look at
his work – his creations are by and large realist style depictions of buildings and
don’t display any real feeling.
This is perhaps why he failed to get into art school.
2 - Elizabeth Bathory Elizabeth was a cold and unfeeling member
of high society in Hungary in the late 16th and early 17th Century.
Outwardly, she seemed polite and civilised.
She likely did not love her husband – she was betrothed age 10 and married at 15, although
she did manage to control him, and he knew of her depravity.
She was sexually promiscuous but emotionless and unsympathetic.
She began beating servants to reiterate her power.
She was rumoured to have angry outbursts, but at first nobody suspected she was preying
on peasant girls, torturing the and bathing in their blood.
It is thought she was the most prolific female serial killer of all time – and eventually
she was found out.
She showed no remorse when she was caught at all and clearly believed she was above
the law…annnd that is because she was Under Hungarian law it was illegal to try or condemn
a citizen of noble birth.
It was decided she would remain under house arrest for the rest of her life.
We only have paintings to go on, but her eyes ARE cold and dead.
I have picked a text book sociopath for number one……
1 - Ted Bundy Ted Bundy was a well documented sociopath
and is a true example of one, too.
The murderer even confessed that when he was young he didn't know what made people want
to be friends," he said.
"I didn't know what underlay social interactions.
He learned to be charismatic and charming to get what he wanted, but never let anybody
close to him.
In his early years he was impulsive and showed a total disregard for the law, but he was
intelligent and scarily, he went on to study a psychology major.
From here, he learned how a human is supposed to act and he played pretend very well.
For a while he worked at a suicide hotline crisis centre, was baptized and also got a
steady Government job.
Worrying sociopath behaviour came before his murder spree… he was in a long-term relationship
with a woman he introduced as fiancé, but then he coldly broke it off with her by ghosting
her.
He seemed to only want to prove he could marry her.
He began his killing spree in 1974 and used his learned charm to murder over 30 women.
Ted Bundy did not show a scarp of remorse and considered guilt a weakness.
So guys that was the Top 10 Sociopaths throughout history