March 2011
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The Murder of Katie McCarron
Karen and Paul McCarron’s first child was Katherine, diagnosed with autism in 2004. In September of that year, Paul and Katie moved to North Carolina to live with her paternal grandmother. This move was made so Katie could attend The Mariposa School in Cary, North Carolina, a special school for children with autism and related disorders. Paul and Katie returned home to Illinois on...
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Folie à deux - A Madness Shared by Two
Folie à deux is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another.
Margaret and her husband Michael, both aged 34 years, were discovered to be suffering from folie à deux when they were both found to be sharing similar persecutory delusions (Enoch and Ball, 2001). They believed that certain persons were entering their house, spreading...
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“Everybody’s looking for something to blame because they don’t want to look...”
– Charles Manson (via lady-madonna)
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