<p>“In 1974 the hospital administrator wrote a letter to the district attorney stating that James was no longer suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.” </p>
<p>“A jury declared him sane after 10 minutes of deliberation.”</p>
<p>“he was awarded the balance of his family’s estate.”</p>
<p>I don’t understand how he was no longer suffering from schizophrenia at 21, but he was at 15, especially since onset is typically in late teens, early twenties</p>
<p>I have a similar impression as garland, he sounds more like a sociopath. Nothing in the articles point to a young man who sounded psychotic based on his reasoning for killing and his reporting all that happened.</p>