Are the people in Lewiston still locked down?

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22. Yes it is complicated.

Insanity is a legal term not a clinical one. Clinicians use a different criteria than the law does.
So when you're doing these kind of evaluations you have to meet legal criteria not clinical ones.

That said even from a clinical perspective it is really interesting how someone so acutely psychotic can actively plan a very successful crime spree and elude law-enforcement.

You can see Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who for decades sent bombs through the US mail to kill people. The FBI had a very difficult time catching him. He was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic but was able to stymie the FBI.

When I was in graduate school working on my PhD, one of my fellow students was somewhat obsessed with serial killers. They were his research interest and he had interviewed or written to every living serial killer at the time. So in every class he would relate everything to his serial killers. So I learned a lot about the psychopathology of typical serial criminals. It is fascinating. I also like reading stories about the FBI and how they catch serial killers using psychology profiles.