HeyJaredThe Mind Detective
A forensic psychologist, private investigator and crime writer explores the psychology of the criminal mind.
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Is the Compulsion to Kill Real? (opens the original)
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At about 5:15 p.m. on Saturday, September 19, a 28-year-old man named Marcelino Castro walked into the San Jose Police Department parking lot and flagged down a patrol officer. He told the officer that he murdered someone and wanted to turn himself in. It was his second try. The first time, deputies at the county jail hadn’t believed him.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vgAw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-
The Government Charged Mica Miller’s Husband With Everything Except Her Death (opens the original)
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At 2:54 on the afternoon of April 27, 2024, a dispatcher in Robeson County, North Carolina, took a call from a woman who did not live there.The woman wanted to know whether the dispatcher could locate her phone. She was calling from Lumber River State Park, near the South Carolina line, a stretch of dark water and cypress that had come up when she searched her phone for national parks near her. She had walked into a pawn shop on Mr. Joe White Avenue in Myrtle Beach at 12:12 that afternoon and le
“I’m Hoping She’ll Solve Her Own Murder” (opens the original)
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This article discusses suicide and violent death. If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.Sometime before she died, Tasia Fortune told the grandmother of one of her sons that if anybody ever found her dead, she hadn’t done it to herself.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qLJE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages
Twelve Jurors Couldn’t Agree About Lindsay Clancy. And They Knew How the Story Ended. (opens the original)
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On December 6, 2022, Lindsay and Patrick Clancy sat down together in an office at South Shore Health’s perinatal behavioral health program.<img alt="It was an emotional start to Lindsay Clancy's trial as her former husband, Patrick Clancy, took the stand and t
The Stalker’s Diary (opens the original)
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Larson is charged with one count of felony stalking and has pleaded not guilty. His attorney, Sara Christensen, has told the court the allegations are unproven and that it isn’t clear whether his writings describe things he actually did. This account comes from the sworn criminal complaint filed in Dane County on August 18, 2026, four days after detectives searched his house, and quotes his own letters and journals as they appear.One night Benjamin Larson got into his car in Fond du Lac and drov
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