Clifford Robert Olson The Psychopath

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Clifford Robert Olson-The Psychopath | This research essay contains a brief description of the personality, history, and brutal, violent crimes committed by the Canadian serial killer Clifford Robert Olsen. Direct quotes from reporters, psychologists, and other mental heath professionals who have come into contact with Olsen are included to help describe the behavior and mental process’ of Clifford. Finally, using parts of Robert Hare’s psychopathy checklist revised, I will attempt to explain some of the motives driving Olsen during his criminal career. | | Clifford Robert Olson, now 71 years old, and undoubtedly spending the remainder of his life behind bars, still shows no remorse for the brutal, sadistic murders he committed against innocent Canadian children and youths. Olson, aka the ‘child killer’, born in Vancouver British Columbia into a relatively stable home environment, began his criminal career at the young age of 13. Like most incarcerated serial killers, Olson began as a juvenile delinquent committing less serious crimes such as theft, torturing animals, and repeatedly skipping school. His crimes became more serious into early adulthood committing, and being incarcerated for things like fraud, impaired driving, and armed robbery, but still nothing comparable to the disturbing murders he would later accomplish in life. Before being arrested, and admitting to the brutal rape and killing of 9 girls and 3 boys in 1982, law officials labeled Olson as a “hardened con-man, but not a killer” (Peter Worthington, 1997, para 7). As Olson’s former parole officer Bob Lusk said ”He was seen as a thief, a false-pretense artist, a garrulous, extroverted, egotistical kind of person, but not as a sexual offender” (as cited in Peter Worthington, 1997, para 7). Police officers, judges, and the like were rudely awakened when Robert admitted to his

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