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JF wrote:
>
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10617&start=47
> A user on Dragonsfoot emailed the DA and got this reply:
>
> Thank you for your thoughtful e-mail. The three adult victims and the
> defendant were all devotees of fantasy role playing games. In fact, the
> defendant was obsessed with them. When we searched his room, we found
> cards, figurines, posters, clothing and other things related to killing
> by stabbing in the context of role playing littered everywhere.
Cards, figurines, posters, and other things: check. I no longer
have clothes with DnD type prints on them.
> We also recovered several dozen swords, knives and daggers which would
> have been at home in Lord of the Rings.
If I could afford to throw away money on a sword, I probably would.
I certainly didn't have anything but admiration for the ones I've seen
in fellow players possesion. Cooler than a $++ car sterio at least.
The guy that disturbed me was the one who didn't seem to realise
the pellet gun could injure someone.
> The day of the most recent killings, he told his mother that he was
> going out to play dungeons and dragons.
Perhaps that's the reason he always gives to his parents when
leaving the basement? 8]
> Thus, what concerns me is not the game itself, but his preoccupation
> with it. Clearly the game didn't cause the murders. What I want to
> explore is whether his fascination with it blurred his sense of reality
> because of his own emotional and personal problems.
>
> Bruce L. Castor, Jr.
>
> District Attorney
While I'm aware that insane people play DnD too (even if they do
have trouble staying in a group), it's not nessisarily true that this
guy had a "blurred sense of reality" (presuming, you know, innocence).
I hope they've got some real evidence, not much of that should see
the light of day in a courtroom; unless, say, his knife matches the wounds.
--
tussock
Aspie at work, sorry in advance.