Getting into the mind of a psychopath

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Everything I've read definitely tells me Psychopaths are the more extreme of the two.

I'm sure they are. But don't mistake extreme for not being able to plan. According to most sources they're usually highly intelligent and master manipulators. You usually won't notice if anyone's a psychopath, since they are masters at passing for human. If you're lucky, they're just unable to walk in your shoes and only see you as an end for their means, if you're unlucky they're predators, lurking in the shadows.

The aforementioned Ted Bundy is a prime example of someone like that. Everyone knowing him couldn't believe he'd done what he did. But there are other ones, more closely to my home. Such as Jack Unterweger, who made headlines by being one of the select few international serial killers. He's been convicted of killing about a dozen prostitutes, but there are assumptions that he also had killed on the American East coast as well as the Czech Republic.

His first conviction was in 1974. He went down for manslaughter and seemingly was the prime example of a reformed criminal. He wrote a book about his crime and how he found to a better and reformed life while being in prison. The rich and famous fell over themselves to be seen with him when he got released in 1990. He worked as a journalist and talk show host, which opened all kinds of opportunities to be on the hunt again. He finally got arrested in Miami in '92, after being suspected of having killed a number of prostitutes there. But since our authorities seemed to have the better case against him, he got extradited to Austria and put to trial at Graz. In '94 he got life and topped himself the night after receiving his sentence. Police officials said, after a trial only based on circumstantial evidence, he left the best evidence for his guilt in the method he used to strangle himself. It was the exact same knot they found on his alleged victims.