Criminally Insane Novels & Stories

Seeing her the other night only confirmed the extent of my feelings. Dragon, another Confradia agent, calls me a couple of hours later. When Sage told me about Smiley Alvarado’s sentencing today, I asked Dragon to look into it. I answer the phone quickly, putting it on speaker. “What do you have for me, Dragon?” He responds right away. “It’s not good, Priest. Smiley Alvarado is not going to jail at all. The jury declared him criminally insane and sentenced him to life in a mental institution.”

He deserves better than my attitude. "I'm sure very soon, you too will get married and leave us," he continues, laughing softly. "This life, eh? Everything changes so fast." My smile falters. Here we go again. Everyone thinks I need to get married. Everyone thinks I'm incomplete without a man. If they only knew the truth – that I don't want to get married. That the very idea makes my skin crawl. Try explaining that to a Nigerian family, though. They'd rather I tell them I'm planning to rob a bank.

He couldn’t believe he’d had anything to do with such a slimy bitch and… “Erm… according to the file here….” Mr Paul started glancing at the papers in his hands, “She has Brain Cancer, bipolar disorders and some other mental disorder that wasn’t disclosed here. It is to note that she’d associated with hard drugs and overdosed on a certain medication that is not stated here too. All these were before the attacks on you and Miss Madison, and right now, her lawyer and father are claiming that she was not in the right senses when she committed all those crimes.” “What!” Damien and Madison both said in unison, their eyes straying until they met each other, and at the same time, their jaw dropped

- he added, looking at Laurens with obvious contempt. - I would like to recall the testimony of my client, confirmed by the evidence I have collected.- Alair spoke up.- Laurens Vermeulen experienced a trauma in his childhood, which was aggravated by his unsuccessful relationship later... Which certainly had an impact on his psyche, so it would not be strange if he had any problems of a psychological nature.- he remarked, looking first at the judge, and then at the prosecutor.- In my opinion Laurens Vermeulen have, at the least, diminished capacity to know that what he did was wrong, it is also very possible that he was insane when committing the crimes. That is why I am requesting, on behalf

There had been machine oil on his cuffs. Catherine’s post-mortem had mentioned machine oil. “It’s all about the oil,” he had told me. Did he know about the stab wounds? All twenty-one of them? Had he led me deliberately to the place where she had disappeared? Or was I the one being played? Was he constructing something larger—an insanity defence, perhaps? If he could convince them he was unstable… if he could appear unpredictable, irrational… They might send him to a hospital instead of a prison. Broadmoor.

Besides binge eating and his womanizing ways, he did not like anything else. If anyone said more than a few words or if he was even slightly displeased, he would explode into murderous rage. He was legally classified as mentally impaired since birth and was diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. The beauty of it? He could kill and still walk away scot-free. The Ackermanns figured out early on that Horatio was a loophole in human form. Got an enemy to get rid of? Just send Horatio in. When the cops showed up, they only gave the family a slap on the wrist.

The surveillance footage ended abruptly there. I felt a bone-chilling cold shoot straight to my head, and my palms were slick with sweat. A few days later, all the major news outlets published the final investigation results of this horrifying murder case. The final assessment report stated that at the time of the crime, Vivian was suffering from acute mental distress and was in a state of severe psychiatric disorder. Therefore, the forensic psychiatric institute determined she had no criminal capacity. The court ultimately accepted the evaluation.

If someone would see him at that moment, that person would think that he was insane. Maybe I really am insane. I probably have grown crazier overnight. Sane hated himself. He couldn't understand what had happened for him to almost end everything. He dared not to think about everything bad that could have resulted if ever his cold body would have been found lying on the pavement in front of the academic building. Those possible consequences would surely haunt him even in his sleep as that was the first time that that happened to him. It was the first time that he attempted to do that.

"He suffers from paranoia, OCD, mild mania, and various mood disorders. He's also a sociopath." Yara shivered. "In short, he's a lunatic with a whole slew of issues. I consulted Timothy today. It's not illegal for a mentally ill person to kill someone when they're not in control of themselves." There was this news story about a delusional patient with manic episodes who hacked his neighbors to death. He was shipped off to an asylum and is still alive and kicking today. They had only been diagnosed with two disorders. And yet, they were already a danger to society. With Kyros having a combination of even worse conditions, he was a walking, ticking time bomb.

“All right. Let’s go through it carefully.” I forced myself to breathe evenly as she continued. “If Morgana’s lawyers are successful in convincing the court that she was legally insane at the time of her actions, then she would not be held criminally responsible. Instead of prison, she’d be committed to a psychiatric hospital.” The words made my skin crawl. “So she could walk away from this?” “Not walk away,” Patricia corrected gently, though I could hear the weight in her tone. “She would be confined, monitored. In theory, indefinitely—until medical professionals determined she was no longer a threat.”