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Though none of the copycats has yet been caught, the phenomenon is chillingly common enough-in the rash of airplane hijackings, for instance-to give psychologists ideas about what kind of personalities are involved. Says Arthur Schueneman, senior clinical psychologist at the Northwestern University Rehabilitation Institute: "These people are often stirred to excitement by news reports. They may have longstanding impulses, barely contained, that are triggered by these events: anger, thrill seeking, retribution against injustice, real or imagined." Helen Morrison, an authority on mass murder, sums up their motives: "Better to be wanted by the police than...
...there any comfort for consumers who now hesitate to pick any sort of product off a grocery or drugstore shelf? Psychologist Schueneman, who predicted the wave of copycat tamperings, provides a kind of backhand reassurance. He says, "I think it will be short-lived." His reasoning: before long, copycat tamperings will become so common that they will no longer provide thrill seekers with the excitement that they crave...
With the killer or killers still on the loose and copycat poisonings continuing-a bottle of mouthwash laced with sulfuric acid was bought in an Oak Park, Ill., store-officials were increasingly concerned. One special worry: adulteration of Halloween trick-or-treat favors. In Chicago, Mayor Jane Byrne ordered distribution of a million leaflets urging parents to keep a close eye on whom their children visit and what they bring home...
...probably sitting back to admire his awful handiwork, savoring our frustration. The obvious fear is that if we don't catch him quickly, he will do this again, maybe with another product." Maybe some place other than the Chicago area too. In addition, authorities feared there might be "copycat" poisonings by deranged people looking for a perverted sort of glory. Said Arthur Schueneman, senior clinical psychologist at Northwestern University's Rehabilitation Institute: "We can expect to see a number of recurrences of this type of thing, just as we saw airliner hijackings come in clusters...
...nowhere else in the country. Investigators were wondering about the wild coincidences involved in Blagg's story. If it is true, he and his wife had bought the only bottles of strychnine-poisoned Tylenol purchased by anyone. Investigators doubted there had been either an attempt at a copycat murder or any link to the Chicago poisonings...