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Old 04-10-2014, 06:53 AM #1
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Default Teen obsessed with TV serial killer Dexter jailed for murdering and dismembering girl

A teenager obsessed with TV serial killer Dexter was jailed today for the murder of his 17-year-old girlfriend, who he ferociously stabbed before dismembering her body in a "blood-curdling" killing.

Steven Miles, who was 16 at the time of the murder, killed Elizabeth Thomas in the bedroom of his home in Oxted, Surrey on January 24 this year.

Having stabbed her in the head and back, he went on to dismember her legs and an arm, wrapped the limbs in clingfilm and placed them in bin bags, before covering her body in a green plastic garden sheet.

Miles, now 17, has been jailed for 25 years.



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How can anyone be so evil? Total horror. You'd never think this would happen on your doorstep. Be safe, girls!!
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Looks more like 12. That's crazy tho
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let's follow the anti-gun nuts logic and ban all TVs in Britain now. People don't kill people, TVs do! we need much more heavy restriction on TV, right? lol
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let's follow the anti-gun nuts logic and ban all TVs in Britain now. People don't kill people, TVs do! we need much more heavy restriction on TV, right? lol
Real dumb logic there, you don't get people walking into schools committing massacres with TVs. Comparing guns to the 'effects' of TV (just an excuse for killers really) is senseless.
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Real dumb logic there, you don't get people walking into schools committing massacres with TVs. Comparing guns to the 'effects' of TV (just an excuse for killers really) is senseless.
I agree with your post. This is exactly what I was saying on other threads; Crisis in Iraq & Alan Henning Beheaded. No amount of watching TV, reading, or even 'conditioning' can cause a sane, moral person to commit these types of horrific atrocities unless the evil desire to do so is already in them.

If I watched all 9 Superman/Supergirl movies 1000 times back to back, I'm not going to jump off a 20 story building with a tablecloth draped over my shoulders. It's complete B.S. that exposure to TV etc. can make someone into a psychopathic killer.

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let's follow the anti-gun nuts logic and ban all TVs in Britain now. People don't kill people, TVs do! we need much more heavy restriction on TV, right? lol
That was a failed 'point' if ever there was one.
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I agree with your post. This is exactly what I was saying on other threads; Crisis in Iraq & Alan Henning Beheaded. No amount of watching TV, reading, or even 'conditioning' can cause a sane, moral person to commit these types of horrific atrocities unless the evil desire to do so is already in them.

If I watched all 9 Superman/Supergirl movies 1000 times back to back, I'm not going to jump off a 20 story building with a tablecloth draped over my shoulders. It's complete B.S. that exposure to TV etc. can make someone into a psychopathic killer.
Whilst I agree that something mild like TV can't turn an otherwise normal person into a criminal... I'm afraid you're simply wrong about no amount of conditioning being able to do so. People can be (and are, every day) psychologically broken and re-programmed. But the methods of doing so are sustained and extreme - it doesn't happen because someone watched a killer on TV or (the usual old scapegoat) "played a violent video game".

People can develop unhealthy obsessions but, as you say, it's in people who are already unhinged and basically a ticking timebomb; for this boy, if it hadn't been "Dexter" that he copied it would have been something else. It didn't motivate him to kill... he was obsessed with it because he ALREADY had the desire to kill. He didn't kill because he was copying the methods he saw there... he would have done it anyway, he just got the idea about cutting up the body from there.
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He probably is a genuine psychopath - there are many around, most do not kill.
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Whilst I agree that something mild like TV can't turn an otherwise normal person into a criminal... I'm afraid you're simply wrong about no amount of conditioning being able to do so. People can be (and are, every day) psychologically broken and re-programmed. But the methods of doing so are sustained and extreme - it doesn't happen because someone watched a killer on TV or (the usual old scapegoat) "played a violent video game".

People can develop unhealthy obsessions but, as you say, it's in people who are already unhinged and basically a ticking timebomb; for this boy, if it hadn't been "Dexter" that he copied it would have been something else. It didn't motivate him to kill... he was obsessed with it because he ALREADY had the desire to kill. He didn't kill because he was copying the methods he saw there... he would have done it anyway, he just got the idea about cutting up the body from there.
Yeah, I agree with that. Also, for anyone who's actually watched Dexter, if it was that it was all down to his obsession with Dexter and Dexter was some kind of idol to him he would have killed a "bad guy" not his innocent teenage girlfriend
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He probably is a genuine psychopath - there are many around, most do not kill.
Psychopathy is mainly to do with ruthlessness and impulse control... so if there is no reason (as with the former) or desire (as with the latter) then they're unlikely to kill. But if they do for whatever reason decide that it's appealing - then they will go with that impulse. In a teenager who "feels invincible" that's even more dangerous as they don't consider the personal consequences. A psychopath won't "not kill" because it's wrong or because they feel for the victim or the victim's loved ones, they're simply not capable of empathy in that way. They might, however, know that it's a bad idea because they know they're likely to be caught and go to prison.

But yes you're right, there are plenty of people around who are capable of killing without remorse. Most just don't, either because they have no reason or desire to, or because they know there would be consequences.
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Teen obsessed with TV serial killer Dexter

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He was probably more obsessed with the idea of the content of Dexter rather than Dexter itself. I wouldn't be surprised if he's also a massive horror movie obsessive.
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