To Be The World's Greatest Jack The Ripper

[How Brown]

The Saucy One wouldn't have to worry about this rocket scientist's aim to a claim to fame....

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July 21, 1983
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[Mags]

Wow.

Don't it make yer heart go pitty-pat to know that being a genius ani't all it's cracked up to be? :rockon:

[SirRobertAnderson]

Hurrah for the judge. Now he's the genius here.....

Lawyer Sentenced Again For Murder
October 11, 1987

A Criminal Court judge Friday resentenced a Loop lawyer who was convicted of murder-giving him the same 40-year prison term that he had handed down originally. The Illinois Appellate Court told Judge Thomas Maloney to resentence Jeffrey Gurga, saying that Gurga should have been found guilty but mentally ill-not just guilty. Maloney added the mentally ill finding to the verdict, but said ``the court finds no reason whatsoever to change the sentence.`` Defense lawyer Julius Lucius Echeles said, ``Your honor, respectfully, has disregarded the mandate from the appellate court.`` ``What mandate?`` the judge asked. ``To reconsider the sentence,`` Echeles said. ``I have reconsidered it``-and found it should stay the same, Maloney said. Gurga was sentenced for the August, 1982, murder of Kathleen Pearson and the wounding of her 19-year-old daughter, Janine. Police later found Gurga`s notes, which said he thought he had only a 20 percent chance of going to prison for the crime. Gurga had argued innocence by reason of insanity.

[How Brown]

Mags:

Small world. I had intended to set up a thread to discuss three individuals ( one of whom was this Jeffrey Gurga character...the other two, Stephen Griffiths and the third, Gary Ridgway) and whether one has to have an above average intelligence quotient to be able to get away with a skein of murders or is dumb luck more important.

Judging by this Gurga, intelligence seems less important. Griffiths, the aspiring serial killer in Britain who Mark Davis ( Silverstealth ) wrote about in a letter to the Examiner this month was likewise no dummy, yet was found out before the skein of crimes he committed escalated any further.

That leaves Ridgway, the Green River Killer.

As a youth,Ridgway was tested in school ( probably Stanford-Binet testing ) and had a whopping IQ of 82 . He may have had a bad brain day on that day he was tested, as he did qualify for the US Navy.

Yet....it took nearly two decades and advanced DNA testing to nail that bird.

I guess it would be best to be like Tel or R.Linford when it comes to planning a career as a serial killer. Dumb luck over intelligence anyday.

[Robert Linford]

How, the intelligent thing is not to commit murder.:yo:

I should think that what any above-average intelligence murderer gains in planning, he loses in sloppy overconfidence and laziness.

This country is full of "brilliant" minds and "Rolls Royce" brains. They end up making rules forbidding police to chase motorbike thieves who aren't wearing crash helmets.

[How Brown]

How, the intelligent thing is not to commit murder--R.Linford

Sez you Robert :mad:...killing people ain't so bad..as long as the right people get killed.

[Robert Linford]

Don't try it yourself, How - if you leave a caption behind the police will instantly know it was you.:nod:

[Mags]

Afraid I must agree with Howie on that. I'm a bloodthirsty little savage underneath this veneer, I guess.

I'm always a little miffed by all the talk about how brilliant Bundy was. He may have started all this homicidal genius talk.

None of them on par with Dr. Lechter, of course.