On July 28, 1980, a convicted killer escaped from death row just days before he was to be executed. The next day he was found dead in a river. What happened to Troy Leon Gregg?
This is intriguing! Though, I think the simplest explanation is usually the most likely - I think his fellow prisoners would have ample reason for the murder given his phone call to a reporter. I am also intrigued as to why he made the phone call to begin with?? That seems weird. One of those cases that leaves many questions still unanswered!
Aggregate analysis says the fight over the call caused him to make irrational decisions towards the bikers and their moll - and he was already drunk - and the bikers and the prisoners beat him up and threw him into the lake so he could sober up, but he died of his injuries. The statement that they killed the hitchhiker because they felt like it fits with the criminals being mostly rapists, as rape is about power, and also fits with social cleansing: i.e. serial killers and rapists commit honour killings of prostitutes, solicitors, children who go too far from their parents, pickpockets, minorities, the poor, people who do not dress conservatively, adulterers, fornicators, petty thieves, drug users, drug dealers, associates of rival criminals, hitchhikers, social liberals, and yobs, which fits with power since they are eliminating threats to their reactionary patriarchal authority. This also fits with the criminals coming from the Greater South, since such social cleansing is part of the culture of honour, and indeed police there (and the West in general) support social cleansing, only bothering to intervene if the serial killer or rapist is caught on unrelated charges (the police hate pickpockets, petty thieves, and yobs, and thus when they unknowingly catch a killer or rapist on charges of pickpocketing, petty theft, or hooliganism they try to get them on any charge).
Social cleansing explains killing the hitchhiker, and also explains the desire to steal his stuff: the criminals viewed it as a reward and as asset forfeiture, and to gain power over the victim. The fact that the criminals were from the Greater South and half were minorities (one a Celticized Norman and the other an African-American) also fits in with social deprivation being proved to cause crime.
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This is intriguing! Though, I think the simplest explanation is usually the most likely - I think his fellow prisoners would have ample reason for the murder given his phone call to a reporter. I am also intrigued as to why he made the phone call to begin with?? That seems weird. One of those cases that leaves many questions still unanswered!
Aggregate analysis says the fight over the call caused him to make irrational decisions towards the bikers and their moll - and he was already drunk - and the bikers and the prisoners beat him up and threw him into the lake so he could sober up, but he died of his injuries. The statement that they killed the hitchhiker because they felt like it fits with the criminals being mostly rapists, as rape is about power, and also fits with social cleansing: i.e. serial killers and rapists commit honour killings of prostitutes, solicitors, children who go too far from their parents, pickpockets, minorities, the poor, people who do not dress conservatively, adulterers, fornicators, petty thieves, drug users, drug dealers, associates of rival criminals, hitchhikers, social liberals, and yobs, which fits with power since they are eliminating threats to their reactionary patriarchal authority. This also fits with the criminals coming from the Greater South, since such social cleansing is part of the culture of honour, and indeed police there (and the West in general) support social cleansing, only bothering to intervene if the serial killer or rapist is caught on unrelated charges (the police hate pickpockets, petty thieves, and yobs, and thus when they unknowingly catch a killer or rapist on charges of pickpocketing, petty theft, or hooliganism they try to get them on any charge).
Social cleansing explains killing the hitchhiker, and also explains the desire to steal his stuff: the criminals viewed it as a reward and as asset forfeiture, and to gain power over the victim. The fact that the criminals were from the Greater South and half were minorities (one a Celticized Norman and the other an African-American) also fits in with social deprivation being proved to cause crime.