The key to this case can be found in Paddock’s’s unconscious mind where his motives are buried. Unable to face the deeper pain that drove his rage, Paddock himself could not tell us his real motives. Only his unconscious can do that. Few know how specifically the vast unconscious speaks, but it does.

Dr. Reid Meloy, a California-based forensic psychologist noted that mass murders normally have a grievance but he can’t figure it out or articulate it. Yet the key is knowing how to decode the unconscious. That’s what I do for a living.

From the broken window on the 32^nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, Stephen Paddock was secretly telling the world just how great was his grievance.

Humans all possess a newly discovered deeper unconscious mind: a super intelligence that can speak. My job is to listen, to decipher its symbolic meaning, and use it to understand. In his best-selling book, Blink, Malcolm Gladwell described “a dazzling new unconscious” that quick-reads reality in the blink of an eye but speaks only through instincts.

But long before Blink’s publication in 2005, a genius psychiatrist discovered in therapy how clearly this “see all” super intelligence speaks verbally. It secretly patterns symbolic messages in code between the lines of conscious communication. It speaks in images, stories and projections—far brighter and faster than our conscious mind. I validated this discovery in clinical research and in my book, The Deeper Intelligence.

I also decode unconscious messages from criminals who invariably confess their guilt between the lines. This led to my new forensic profiling method, “thoughtprint decoding.”

As a therapist I decode messages from severe emotional trauma victims, people like Stephen Paddock. Such people consciously bury the real meaning of their trauma. Nevertheless, the trauma remains constantly frozen in the back of their minds. It’s as if the threat of the trauma’s reoccurrence remains there, deep in their unconscious. It’s an unconscious post-traumatic stress disorder.

Stephen Paddock tells his story in secret projections which explains his rage.

Paddocks’ imagery in his last communications to his live-in girlfriend, Marilou Danley, contained significant subliminal communication about his motives. These are crucial overlooked communications to the closest person on earth to him at the time.

After her FBI interview Danley said that Paddock told her: “I want you to take a trip home to see your family. I found a cheap ticket to the Philippines.”

Symbolically, “take a trip home to see your family” strongly implies a projection that he is unconsciously thinking about his own traumatic past home life. Just prior to mass murder, he is taking a trip down bad memory lane. Immediately this points to his horrific trauma from the sudden, totally out of the blue, family-destroying trip his bank robbing, criminal father took him on at a very early age. A trip that never ended, that he deeply buried.

Secretly he implies the shocking realization, “I was just a cheap ticket to my father, of no value, degraded by him. He was more concerned about money and robbing banks than me, and robbing me of a father.”

He also sent his girlfriend money on her trip “to buy your family a house.” Read his projection: “I deeply wished my father had bought us a permanent house, provided a stable family.”  Instead, he was deeply cheated, robbed of a home. Paddock had often nurtured kids and neighbors as he wished he had been nurtured.

Paddocks’ father-son relationship—the mental trip home where it started

A brief picture of his father-son relationship shows just how severe his wounds were— the deepest grievance imaginable he had kept secret since age 7.

Just out after six years in prison, his jailbird father married in 1952, had son Stephen in 1953 and was immediately sent back to prison on a three-year stretch. It was a total abandonment of his son. Out of jail in 1956, father and mother then moved away, changed names and began a new life. Masquerading for four years as an ideal father and husband having three more sons, his father had a generous larger-than-life side. It would have been a huge salve for Stephen’s earlier father abandonment—now he had the perfect father.

Secretly his father then committed a series of armed bank robberies. Suddenly arrested in Las Vegas during which he attempted to murder an FBI agent, his father never returned home and would never be seen again by Stephen. Overnight his idealized father was gone and serving a 20-year sentence.

Stephen age 7 experiences shocking massive father deception, total abandonment again, a violent dangerous father who carried a gun and nearly murdered. And, of course, inordinate personal shame.

Unconsciously he experiences his father as totally destroying his life—a murderous attack.

Neighbors were shocked and tried to keep the truth from Stephen, but he knew. His mother immediately moved to California and told the boys their father had died. No grieving, no father, tons of fear and shame, and instructed to keep it all secret, but Stephen knows inside. Old enough to remember the police coming to his house that fateful day. He buries his trauma deeper and deeper.

But he would always associate the moment of utter deception and final abandonment by his father with Las Vegas, Nevada.

Eventually his father escapes from prison becoming one of the ten most wanted dangerous men in America for nearly a decade. But Stephen already knew just how dangerous he could be.

Back To His Girlfriend
In the end he treated his girlfriend as his criminal father treated him. Subtly ordering his girlfriend to go away implies again how his father abandoned him, sent him away.

Then, violently abandoning her by suicide he again repeats his father’s behavior as he experienced it–a violent symbolic suicide.

His girlfriend provided another hint. Since he gave her money to buy a house for her family back home, she thought Paddock was planning to break up with her—but denied “he was planning violence against anyone.”

She consciously overlooked the violence he was preparing to inflict on her personally—stark utter abandonment through suicide. But subliminally she recognized Paddock’s unconscious violent message: he was getting ready to symbolically break up with— break—destroy—the one person who had severely abandoned and wounded him so long ago. He was looking to retaliate symbolically against his bank robbing father who had abandoned his family overnight. Her super-intel had picked up the secret.

Dragging her into the horror of his murderous behavior reveals he experienced his father’s behavior as repeat murderous attacks.

Sudden abandonment, loss of home, poverty, shame, and in the back of his mind continually a Top Ten Most Wanted dangerous father are experienced as symbolic murders deep down. Read “my father killed me in so many different ways—and my brothers and mother. Robbed us repeatedly daily.”
Just as Paddock reenacted his father’s symbolic suicide on his girlfriend, he reenacted his father’s secret murderous rage toward him on his mass murder victims that night.

When Paddock kept killing and wounding hundreds of innocent concertgoers—unconsciously he was looking at his abusive father. He shot him over and over, shouting out his unbearable unconscious secret: his father had destroyed him as if he had shot him a thousand times with his repeated abandonments and abuse. He was inflicting his deep haunting sense of being a cheap ticket on all his cheap ticket victims at the concert.

Carrying out his mass murder in Las Vegas suggests an unconscious flashback to his father’s shocking arrest in that city, the massive deception, and final abandonment. Stephen never saw him again.  His father destroyed him in Vegas and he would repay him in Vegas in a mass murder rage. Revisiting the precise moment of his father’s maximum betrayal.

Signs of Slippage

There were signs of Paddock’s regression. When he fell on something slippery in a casino in 2012 and sued, he suggests his slippery family framework that did violence to him—couldn’t hold him up any longer. He complained about a damaged hamstring suggesting how his father trauma had hamstrung him his entire life. Feeling deeply wounded and entitled he suggests he was beginning to slip mentally already. During his deposition he alluded to losing his wits. He said rarely drank alcohol when he gambled, because “at the stakes I play, you want to have all your wits about you, or as much wit as I have.”

Around 2015  he began to publicly berate his girlfriend as his father had degraded him.

In 2016 immediate family events triggered his further regression dealing with his father’s abuse: his aging mother turned 90 creating another impending “abandonment” and reminding him of his father’s great abandonment/ abuse. He also carried a deep grievance toward her for having to bury his pain and anger. And for enabling such a father.

Stephen Paddock, a man known for never getting angry, had cracked and retaliated in kind in a moment of calculated unmitigated rage. Just as his father was constantly calculating another crime, another robbery—toying with his family over and over.

Final explosion: ‘Feel my pain’
Paddock’s final explosion is a symbolic behavioral confession and story of motives—of his deep grievances. It’s a story of severe father-son abuse at a level we cannot comprehend. Paddock made others feel his severe pain to avoid his own unconscious pain. He massacred strangers as he felt massacred by his father—it was that severe deep down.

He also identified with his father described as “a larger-than-life outlaw.” Paddock both surpassed his father in his rage—“a larger than life mass murderer outlaw”—to shame his father in return and to punish himself for doing so simultaneously.

This is Stephen Paddock’s story: Father destroyed/murdered him deep down. He wanted to murder father as payback. He then re-enacted it on others and finally suicided because of guilt. The great abuse three-step. It’s so powerful, only the unconscious super intelligence can tell us the truth about it in its metaphoric messages.

He’s still responsible but understanding tells us why he exploded.

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In this eye-opening study of one of the 21st century’s most controversial murder cases, Dr. Hodges also cites passages from Amanda’s memoir, Waiting to Be Heard, to corroborate the confession found in the Nov. 4 email.

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The police are investigating the murder of a young woman. They bring three people in for questioning, two males and one female. All claim to be innocent. After hours of questioning the suspects are released. The female goes home and types into the wee hours of the morning. She creates a spontaneous five page email alibi. She writes that she has to “get this off my chest.” She sends it off to approximately 25 people. Her email is addressed to “everyone” and describes her “account” of the last time she saw the murder victim. She writes that as she was “fumbling around the kitchen” when the victim appeared with “blood dripping down her chin.” Afterwards she and her boyfriend did a lot of mopping and cleaning up because they “spilled a lot of water on the floor. “

Later an autopsy would reveal that the murder victim sustained multiple cuts and bruises to her face and neck area by a kitchen knife. As the victim lay dying, a pool of blood spread out on the floor. The blood had been cleaned up afterwards, mopped up, by the homicidal maniacs who had killed her.

A practicing psychotherapist and nationally recognized forensic profiler named Andrew Hodges M.D, has written a new book, As Done Unto You, which decodes the hidden messages in the verbal and written statements of the murder suspects in the Meredith Kercher murder case. Dr. Hodges uses a “cutting-edge forensic profiling technique of thoughtprint decoding by accessing the deeper intelligence (unconscious mind) of suspects in criminal investigations.”

He writes on his website, ”I have learned that the human mind works simultaneously on two levels—consciously and unconsciously. The discovery of an unconscious super intelligence [super-intel] reveals that it reads situations in the blink of an eye and invariably tells the complete truth.”

In As Done Unto You he starts with a brief introduction to his methodologies followed by a hypothetical version of events based on the evidence and his findings. He reveals what unfolded the night Meredith Kercher was gang raped and slaughtered in her bedroom. His narration is graphic and has the ring of truth. Hodge’s comprehensive knowledge of this case including some lesser known facts renders his retelling as one of the most profound to date.

We know the who, what, where, when, how of Meredith’s murder so all that is left is the why, and this is what Dr. Hodges brilliantly addresses in his book. Investigators scrambled to find a motive or an immediate trigger(s) provoking Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Guede to rape and stab Meredith Kercher to death. Prosecutors debated over whether it was it a fight over Amanda Knox’s slovenly habits, indiscriminate sex life, or was it a robbery gone wrong? Hodges answers this riddle unequivocally in his book based on the murder suspects own statements.

Hodges explains, “Unquestionably there would have been two types of motives. Immediate trigger motives and far deeper time-bomb motives which caused such distorted thinking consciously.” (Hodges MD, Andrew G. (2015-06-23). As Done Unto You: The Secret Confession of Amanda Knox (Kindle Locations 740-741). Village House Publishers. Kindle Edition.) There is most likely a list of provocations resulting from the quickly deteriorating relationship between Amanda and Meredith which was witnessed by many. Ultimately it appears that it was Meredith’s rejection of Knox on October 31st that set things off.

On Halloween night in 2007, Knox in her cat costume walked aimlessly around Perugia for hours – alone. She kept texting Meredith over and over to try and meet up with her. Meredith was having fun, partying with her friends and ignored Knox’s persistent texts. This rejection and abandonment on top of a series of earlier clashes with her roommate, unleashed the beast in Amanda – the repressed rage stemming from her early life traumas.

As Hodges explains, “Criminals are typically controlled by deeply buried unconscious emotional trauma which they re-enact on their victims. It’s well-documented that abuse victims often themselves become abusers.”

After the crime is relived in the first two chapters, the author then delves deeply into the inner world of the murderers unconscious. Analyzing their words, Hodges takes the reader through all of the reasons Amanda, Raffaele and Rudy found each other, their shared emotional baggage. All three had upheavals in their early life which brought them together and the toxic combination exploded into a group assault that went too far.

Hodges includes an intriguing and insightful description of the deeper meanings within photographs taken in the months leading up to the crime. This is followed by a methodical and intense study of the murder suspects writing in the rest of the book. In particular he focuses on Amanda Knox’s writing.

Dr. Hodges’s book is dense and full of observations which reveal much more than any other book about this case. Some of the insights that he discovers through thoughtprints include:

• “ . . . [Knox] suggests they initially entered Meredith’s bedroom “together,” like storm troopers, to carry out maximum humiliation. This never started out as a one-on-one catfight.”(Hodges MD, Andrew G. (2015-06-23). As Done Unto You: The Secret Confession of Amanda Knox (Kindle Locations 243). Village House Publishers. Kindle Edition.)

• “Amanda also implies . . .that she and Raffael both penetrated Meredith— as did Rudy Guede, whose DNA was found inside her. It was a gang assault. “Came out” suggests lesbian activity on Amanda’s part. In a later writing, Amanda will recall how people thought she was a lesbian in high school.” (Hodges MD, Andrew G. (2015-06-23). As Done Unto You: The Secret Confession of Amanda Knox (Kindle Locations 3630-3633). Village House Publishers. Kindle Edition.)

• “[Knox’s] super-intel continues to highlight motives – first the immediate trigger motives. Evidence clearly indicates Amanda had significant conflicts with Meredith, and she outright lied about those disagreements. Meredith’s parents, friends and roommates, however, knew about them.” (Hodges MD, Andrew G. (2015-06-23). As Done Unto You: The Secret Confession of Amanda Knox (Kindle Location 3132). Village House Publishers. Kindle Edition.)

• Amanda certainly knew her parents were married on February 21, 1987, with her mother five months pregnant before Amanda’s birth on July 9. 1987. That meant she was conceived around October 9, 1986. Her utterly brilliant super-intel would have figured out in a heartbeat that it was sometime in November 1986 when they considered the abortion. That month would have had special significance to her and evoked an enormous unconscious anniversary reaction marking her near-death.” (Hodges MD, Andrew G. (2015-06-23). As Done Unto You: The Secret Confession of Amanda Knox (Kindle Location 4747). Village House Publishers. Kindle Edition.)

Over and over again, Dr. Hodges uncovers the distressing realities surrounding that night. Hodges work is truly groundbreaking. As if all of this weren’t enough, in the final chapters he includes the super-intel study of one of Knox’s most prominent supporters, Nina Burleigh, uncovering what she says in between the lines of her own writing.

As Done Unto You is a fascinating, intense and thought provoking look at the truth as only a psychiatrist and FBI profiler with a firm understanding of the Super Intelligence technique could reveal.

Thoughtprint decoding has proven to be an invaluable tool in criminal investigations. Similar to when DNA was first introduced, some people may be circumspect about it however in time it will prove to become critical in solving cases like the murder of Meredith Kercher.

Unfortunately, the Meredith Kercher murder case has been closed and due to the inability of the Italian legal system to confidently identify the multiple attackers, two of the three suspects have been acquitted. Hopefully Dr. Hodges thoughtprints become a part of future murder investigations like this one so that victims families get the closure and justice they deserve.

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A practicing psychotherapist and nationally recognized forensic profiler named Andrew Hodges M.D, has written a new book, As Done Unto You – The Secret Confession of Amanda Knox, which decodes the hidden messages in the verbal and written statements of the murder suspects in the Meredith Kercher murder case. Dr. Hodges uses a “cutting-edge forensic profiling technique of thoughtprint decoding by accessing the deeper intelligence (unconscious mind) of suspects in criminal investigations.”

Hodges notes, “I have learned that the human mind works simultaneously on two levels—consciously and unconsciously. The discovery of an unconscious super intelligence [super-intel] reveals that it reads situations in the blink of an eye and invariably tells the complete truth.”

Podcast Interview: New York Crime Examiner (True Crime writer Liz Houle)

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BTK Serial Killer Case: Dr. Hodges was on the verge of being brought into the BTK case (2005), at the encouragement of former Wichita Police Chief Richard LaMunyon, immediately prior to BTK’s capture. From limited communication from the killer, he was the only profiler to predict that BTK was on the verge of murdering again (after twenty years)—a fact to which the killer confessed after his arrest.

Natalee Holloway Case: Joran van der Sloot confessed in an undercover interview to the exact scenario Dr. Hodges described earlier in his book on the case. He talked of placing her body in a friend’s boat where it was dumped into the ocean.

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To understand Joran van der Sloot—charged with the May 30, 2010 murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez in Peru—to fathom the motives of the man previously suspected in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway we must put things in context and follow his tracks.

Such a suspect can be best understood by applying my cutting-edge approach to forensic documents and statements to read his deeper unconscious messages. Once decoded, his own words will tell the truth and nothing but the truth.

Background:

We must appreciate the discovery of an unconscious super intelligence. Pioneering psychiatrist Dr. Robert Langs first put forth the idea of a deeper intelligence at work in the mind, an unconscuiouly driven voice of reason that cuts to the chase and delivers its healing messages in stories replete with images and metaphors. Langs discovered this deeper intelligence while working with patients who would tell stories about others, stories that were actually about themselves. For instance, a man would discuss his daughter who planned to drop out of college, when in reality he was pointing out that he himself contemplated ending his theapy sessions, a plan just as inadvisable as his daughter’s.

Participating in the clinical research that validated Langs’ discoveries, in the 1990s I wrote a book about this phenomenon titled The Deeper Intelligence (which I now call the super intelligence). More recently, I’ve applied the knowledge we’ve gained about the super intelligence to the analysis of forensic documents such as ransom notes, suicide notes and statements by suspects in criminal cases. My resulting thoughtprint decoding method has been recognized by law enforcement officials, criminologists, attorneys and forensic psychiatrists/psychologists. This new way of profiling forensic documents adds a crucial dimension to the field of psycholinguistics.

The unconscious mind communicates constantly and typically hides its messages in verbal or written communication generated by the conscious mind. We don’t always say what we mean. These unconscious communications are what I call thoughtprints.

The capabilities of the super intelligence has been highlighted most clearly for the public by author Malcom Gladwell in his 2005 best-seller, Blink. Gladwell clearly established that the unconscious mind possesses rapid cognition, the ability to read situations in the blink of an eye, and reveal what it was instinctually picking up. For instance, Gladwell related the story of four art experts who for two months independently examined a supposedly ancient Greek statue to determine its authenticity. Their conclusion: the object was authentic. Three other art experts using a rapid-cognition “blink” take, studied it for no more than 30 seconds each stated it was a phony—which in fact it was. The brilliant unconscious mind—which Gladwell called the “dazzling adaptive unconscious”—had proven its vast superiority.

Gladwell is a reporter, however, and not a hands-on clinician, and he mistakenly concluded that instincts were the final pathway from the unconscious, otherwise a closed door. Unbeknowst to him, Dr. Langs’ earlier clinical research in psychiatry revealed that the brilliant adaptive unconscious mind communicated in a symbolic language all its own. In other words, the brilliant unconscious intelligence described what it was observing.

We had learned to access or—more accurately—listen to people when they were accessing the unconscious intelligence which I now call the super intelligence.

As noted previously I developed thoughtprint decoding, a forensic approach which reads the super intelligent language of criminal suspects who, as research shows, are prone to guilt and confession. In law-enforcement terms, these criminals have sentenced themselves to “the prison of the mind.” Using this method I was the only profiler to decode written messages from the Wichita serial killer Dennis Rader, a.k.a. BTK, to predict that he was on the verge of killing again shortly before he was apprehended. At the time I was ridiculed by other profilers, but I wasn’t floating a wild guess. I was reading and translating the distinct language of his super intelligence found in BTK’s own written communications.
Joran van der Sloot

Ever since the disappearance of Natalie Holloway on the island of Aruba on May 30, 2005, I have focused my forensic attention upon prime suspect Joran van der Sloot. I wrote an extensive profile of the case entitled Into The Deep—The Hidden Confession of Natalee’s Killers—based on my decoding of unconscious communications from the three suspects, Van der Sloot and two brothers, Deepak and Satish Kalpoe.

After publicly offering multiple versions of what happened to Natalee, Joran and the Kalpoes all escaped prosecution. My conclusion, based on their thoughtprints, was that Natalee had suffered an accidental death while being entrapped and abused by the suspects, had died from aspiration, and her body had been discarded into the ocean. The super intelligent messages were convincing. Police authorities had secretly endorsed the same conclusion. With law enforcement actively investigating that scenario, in 2007 Dave Holloway and Tim Miller of Texas Equusearch obtained sponsorship for an extensive three-month exploration of the ocean for the body. Natalee’s corpse was believed to be in a large fishing cage which had gone missing—key evidence which I helped uncover. Texas Equusearch eventually identified approximately 170 potential underwater targets, but the search ran out of funds and the targets remain in place—waiting to be explored.
Joran’s various stories—same picture

Joran van der Sloot offered various stories regarding Natalee’s disappearance, the most stiking of which was the version obtained by Dutch journalist Peter de Vries who secretly videotaped Joran talking at length. That story told to his supposed friend, Patrick van der Eem, essentially confirmed the identical story which I had culled from Joran’s super intelligence. He had changed two facts: Joran claimed Natalee had voluntarily participated in sexual activity which led to her aspiration death, while she was actually raped; and Joran misidentified an accessory, the driver of the boat which took Natalee to her watery grave, while denying that the Kalpoes’ were involved. Following his various versions including his most prominent story to Greta Van Susteren in 2008, however, he returned to the familiar theme of Natalee’s body being last seen on a boat. In the Van Susteren interview, Joran clearly stated that the Kalpoes knew what happened and implied that her body had been dumped at sea. Most of his stories portray the identical super intelligent big picture: Natalee suffered an accidental death involving drug use, sexual activity and a head injury before the body was dumped into the sea.

In June 2007 I presented my work on the Holloway case at the newly formed Cold Case Research Institute in Atlanta where I predicted Joran would continue to demonstrate extreme self-sabotaging behavior either leading to his death or his being jailed (similar to O.J. Simpson) due to his deep hidden guilt.

Key interview—Dusseldorf 2009: Joran was interviewed yet again in summer 2009, but it was only released publicly in February 2009. There was a noticeable change in his tone. At the time, as the interview revealed, Joran was obviously feeling guilty over having discedited the legal career of his father, Paulus, due to the Holloway case. Joran was also extremely apologetic to the Holloway family, acknowledging for the first time the enormous grief he had caused them. Once again he told another version of the same story. He depicts Natalee alone with more than one guy, using drugs, dancing—entertaining the guys—and suffered a head injury from a fall causing her death leading Joran and his friend to bury her body in water—in this case, the deepest part of a pond. This is essentially a disguised version of the same earlier story. Remember that his super intelligence is wholly incapable of lying.
Paulus dies

A year after the Dusseldorf interview surfaced, Joran’s father died from a heart attack in Aruba in February 2010, a month after canceling his partnership at the law firm where he had been employed. Paulus was 57. When I profiled the Dusseldorf interview in March 2010 and discussed it with Dave Holloway, my impression was that Joran’s hidden unconscious guilt was now so overwhelming that we could expect extremely self-destructive behavior to follow shortly. Secretly guilt-ridden over Natalee’ death, Joran now felt responsible for his father’s death due to the stress he had inflicted on him in addition to costing his father his job. In the oppressive prison of his mind Joran was carrying two tons of guilt.
Extortion attempt reflects major self-sabotage

In April 2010, Joran attempted to extort money from Beth Holloway in exchange for the “real story” regarding the fate of Natalee’s body. The FBI in Natalee’s home town of Birmingham, Alabama and Aruba worked to set up a sting. Not unexpectedly Joran fell for it. More accurately Joran unconsciously sought it out. He was secretly videotaped in Aruba extorting the money and once again provided authorities with a phony story about the body’s location, claiming thath his now-dead fathr had buried it under the foundation of a house. The FBI decided to let Joran escape hoping they could obtain more facts about the Holloway case before closing in on him.

In just a few days, Joran had escaped the country with cash in hand and found his way to a casino in Peru. Shortly thereafter, he murdered Stepany Flores in his hotel room. Not coincidentally Flores’ slaying occurred on the fifth anniversary of Natalee’s disappearance and death.

For a clear and concise look at Joran van der Sloot through the lens of his own super intelligence, consider the following questions and answers:
Was the murder of Flores connected to the anniversary of Natalee’s death?

Without question. Joran was unconsciously announcing to the world, In case you missed it I was responsible for the death of Natalee Holloway. In essence, Flores was a proxy for Natalee. She also apparently triggered his rage prompted by his deep guilt when she invaded his computer and discovered information about him and the Holloway case. In the back of his mind Joran was continually visualizing Natalee’s death—the brilliant super intelligence always knowing the precise date of her death. This day was an especially sensitive day for Joran when he would have been on the verge of exploding and punishing himself. And he was now also burdened by the deep guilt of having basically killed his father.
Was Joran truly guilt-ridden or a true sociopath?

Many news commentators and forensic professionals—because they’re unfamiliar with the super intelligence—have stated that Joran was a sociopath, a criminal narcissist who feels not an ounce of guilt. Nothing could be further from the truth. Law enforcement officials around the world recognize the universality of the prison of the mind, and Joran’s brilliant and honest unconscious makes it clear that he suffers extreme guilt and is desperate to confess—despite his arrogant demeanor. The slaying of Stephany Flores was a murder-suicide. Joran was so obvious, committed the killing so haphazardly and left himself no way of escaping the consequences that he basically sentenced himself to a prison term, one he knew he had deserved for five long years.
Should the FBI have arrested Joran?

Yes. After they invited him to dance, they really should have taken him home. After they balked at arresting him for fraud and hoping to get more information, he upped the ante and committed an even more serious crime, one which in many ways mirrored the murder of Natalee Holloway.

The FBI investigators did not appreciate what Joran was doing—that he was defrauding Beth Holloway to self-sabortage his own freedom. By committing such an obvious financial crime for which he knew he could be apprehended, Joran was covertly requesting to be arrested. Did the FBI agents think Joran didn’t know unconsciously he was secretly being taped? The super intelligence reads situations brilliantly.

His overt commission of a crime was a request to be incarcerated. Had he been arrested, he would have been extradicted to Alabama and, if he had been tried and convicted of extortion, would likely have served 6 to 8 years in prison, far less time than he’ll now face for Flores’ murder. What do you think about the FBI stating that they were letting case develop and hoping Joran would led them to more information about Natalee’s body?

Joran had repeatedly insisted to the world that he would tell one phony story after another and had no conscious intention of revealing Natalee’s whereabouts. His unconscious intelligence, however, had revealed over and over that her body was in the water and that friends had helped him dump it. The evidence was compelling enough that a sophisticated $1.5 million sea search for Natalee’s body took place off the shores of Aruba from December 2007 to March 2008.

A member of the Aruban investigator’s office had previously asked the FBI in Birmingham to interview me about my book, Into the Deep, which they did in September 2007. I later spoke with Hans Moss, the chief prosecutor in Aruba, who had been unfamiliar with my work and had been unaware that a staff member had been interested enough to involve the FBI. Moss later made plain to the leaders of the ocean exploration that he had no use for profilers like me.

The bottom line—law enforcement has a lot to learn about the mind and human motivation particularly how a suspect’s super intelligence will guide them to the solution of the case. Like other professionals in media and medicine who often resist change, law enforcement pros must become willing to seek answers outside the box, much like Gladwell’s instinctual art experts did when they rapidly intuited that the Greek statue was a fake.

The sad thing about the FBI’s reluctance to act before Joran traveled to Peru is that the agency very likely could have prevented the Flores murder if its agents had followed through with an arrest.

In medicine, after doctors and surgeons lose patients, we have death conference to examine how the death might have been prevented. Law enforcement should engage in similar post-event self-examination to brainstorm new and more effective ways to analyze the criminal mind.
Is Joran a serial killer?

He is an impulsive rage killer largely motivated by overwhelming unconscious guilt. The death of Natalee Holloway was an accidental killing as a result of drugging and gang-raping her along with the Kalpoe brothers.

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