Some Court Sanctioned Psycho Babble

I am back. I really should change the title of this thing to "Ravings of THE Well Adjusted Madman". I hate to think that I am just one of many. I am unique. I am the only one who is and can be special. Shit, I am engaged in Sylar (Gabriel Gray) think. He was the resident villian in Season One (Chapter One) of "Heroes". He was "killed" by Hiro at the end, but watching his blood trickle on the manhole cover at the end, I do not believe he will remain dead for a minute. Besides, he was a good and tormented villian and the actor who plays him has been resigned, so he has to be back. Too bad, nuclear Ted Sprague and paint the future Isaac Mendez will not be back (Sylar cut off their skulls, absorbing their powers and killing them. That Sylar is just like that).

Heroes is not what I wanted to go off on. I wanted to talk about the trial of Daniel Sylvester. He is the dude who killed and dismembered his York Region neighbor, Alicia Ross. It was a sensational disappearance and murder around these parts two summers ago. Alicia Ross had just got home with her boyfriend and apparently he left and she went outside for a smoke. Then she vanished without a trace. Of course, the boyfriend was the first suspect and her family found him wanting in the search so he was immediately suspect in their eyes. I understand that and then again, it presupposes that they would all act and feel the same emotions.

The feelings of her mother and family would have to be different than his feelings for her. Besides, he knows that he is a suspect and that any and every thing that he does is under a microscope. That is okay. It also forgets that with a microscope you do not see context, so all his actions, etc. are taken out of context. I always thought he was in a no win situation with that one. Kind of like Robert Baltovich, who was wrongly, when you actually look at the evidence and shoddy police and prosecutorial work, of killing his (ex)girlfriend Vanessa Bain in the early 1990s. That dude is waiting for his retrial after his conviction (railroading) was overturned on appeal.

Anyway, Alicia Ross's body parts started to turn up and about 5 weeks after her disappearance, her next door neighbor, Daniel Sylvester, confessed to her killing. That is not what I would call a good neighbor. I am reading his testimony in the newspaper. According to a psychiatrist, he had "angry rape fantasies". Is this opposed to happy rape fantasies? It would seem to me that rape, by its very definition, is angry, so the good doctor is shooting for redundancy in his "diagnosis".

He admits to kneeing her in the chest and bashing her head on the ground after she called him a "fucking loser". He snapped. He snapped and caused her 33 bone fractures including all of her ribs. It is funny, if it is to be believed, that one must take the word of a killer as to what he claims provoked him.

The psychiatrist found him to be a very "dysfunctional man". He had psych issues since he was nine but stopped seeing a therapist. He lived, like a recluse, in his elderly mother's house (sort of a Norman Bates for the suburban set). The doctor said he assault was never intended to be fatal or injurious. How the fuck does this guy KNOW what Sylvester's intentions were? What is he fucking Carnac?

He also masturbated "excessively" (Sylvester I presume, though it could have been the psychiatrist). What is excessive? I now have to know because I do not want to just snap because I whacked off once too often.

He also wanted to "sober" Alicia Ross "up" as she had stared down his mother. Perhaps, she was not all sweetness and light as her family claimed. Then again, sobering her up, was not really Sylvester's job. Then again, as an excessive masturbator, I would have thought strangulation would have been more his thing.

Oh yeah, he whacked off after dumping the body....to relieve tension. I am thinking that after I dump a body of somebody I have just beaten to death, a Xanax would be more tension relieving rather than trying to "bust a nut" in a field with the body of my dead neighbor.

I am thinking that I have to build me some 20 foot fences and wall the old Madman family in. I may leave the father in law out on guard duty. He really would not know the difference and besides the nonsense that he can spew would keep most people away.

I just wanted to share those tidbits of psychological underpinnings and diagnoses with you. It is all after the fact and seems to "justify" what was done. It does not explain it and perhaps it was not something that was preventable. Like much of life, it was inevitable. I guess it was just her sad fate.

Ciao!