Hey everybody welcome back to Colcase Murder Mysteries.

I'm your host Ryan Kraus returning to steer this ship into the darkest depths of the human mind

as we go across the pond and endeavor to shed light upon the harrowing murder of

two-year-old James Bulger in the Walton area of Liverpool on February 12th 1993.

While this case was solved fairly quickly, it became notorious in the public eye for a very specific reason, which is that the perpetrators

of this gruesome beating death were two ten-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and John Venables.

And while we have received some answers

as to why these kids would have indulged such heinous violence,

the greater part of the mystery remains. So what we want to do here is deconstruct the narrative

leading to the fatal incident and the killer's behavior thereafter in order to garner a better

idea of what motivated this event.

Now as we know the end is always the beginning and vice versa we merely have to go to the end of this story first to see what precipitated the incident.

So emotional wounds are what cause physical compensation through evolutionary shortcuts,

which is defined as

sociopathy or antisocial personality disorder as it's more commonly

and broadly addressed today. If we identify the wound, then we'll be able to see the shortcut involved here.

More importantly, the value in understanding the symbolic narrative at play is that it allows us a view

inside the perpetrator's head through structure rather than the arbitrary

and subjective bullshit afforded by traditional psychological evaluation.

With over 30 years of psychoanalysis, we are definitely no closer to understanding this crime.

So going to the end of the book to find the beginning, I look to a fact about the killing combined with a comment made by one of the perpetrator's therapists and truth begins to rise.

Both boys at the culmination of this story will deny that this event

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