Hello and welcome to another episode of Macabre for Mortals. Thank you for all the lovely comments that I have received in regards to my last few series. It is really encouraging to read such great responses.
I was a bit unsure about what true crime I was going to cover this week. I would like to cover a serial killer but I am trying to find a way to cover the crimes with having the victims still central. I will cover one of the serial killers in which I have done quite a lot of research on in my time. But I think that is going to come after my next in depth series on Schizophrenia.
This week I am going to cover the case of Shaun Ouilette, which I have just watched a documentary on and the interview was mainly with his mother. I felt that this kind of documentary was well done as it focused mainly on Shaun and what he was like as a person and only touched on his killer slightly towards the end of the episode.
For myself, I feel I have been able to empathise with the victims of crimes, but since becoming a mother something has become far more poignant whenever anything happens to a child. I imagine how I would feel in this mothers situation and honestly I think it would kill me or bring me to the brink of it. People who are grieving or experience this sort of trauma have such amazing strength. I know eventually they resent hearing that because they shouldn’t have to be strong, they should never have had to experience this sort of trauma. To these victims, I am sorry you have had to bear this.
This murder was also covered in a Law and Order Episode, and honestly they did it justice. The one thing I have always respected about this show is the fact that they don’t gloss over the hard parts of a crime. It maybe glamourised but they always show the disappointments and the wrongs in every part of the case. The episode is called Trust and was released in 1992, if you are interested in giving it a watch after listening to this episode.
My sources where - https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/09/27/rod-matthews-denied-parole-for-third-time-shaun-ouillette-murder/7zHCtAsjhudUOOmqVVF0nO/story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/04/us/murder-for-thrill-described-at-a-trial.html
https://www.thecantoncitizen.com/2012/10/10/matthews-parole-hearing/
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