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A documentary on how people say they aren't guilty of committing crimes

because of their mental illness. Tells the story of a troubled young man who stabbed
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The wide range of psychological studies of crimes and criminals that have
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He is 29 years old and commits his horrendous crime alone. He is an

underachiever, unskilled, doesn't have a regular job and he is now a mass murderer.

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attractive. The truth is not as simple as that.

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