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...Paranoid Schizophrenic." Despite his "statements," Dean was not arrested. New York law requires complete perception of a crime in children between seven and twelve. He was examined by the Staten Island Mental Health Center, which recommended "prolonged psychiatric care." The district attorney called the boy a "paranoid schizophrenic...
...brutally senseless crime two weeks ago, Dr. and Mrs. Melvin Nimer, both 31, were victims, it seemed plain, of a thug who invaded their Staten Island -home (TIME, Sept. 15). Son Melvin Dean, 8, told police that he was awakened and choked in the night by a white-masked prowler. The child cried for his parents, who came running. Before both died of knife wounds, Loujean Nimer is reported to have told police that the prowler was "tall as my husband, same build" (5 ft. 7 in., 160 Ibs.). In the public shock that followed, nobody got more sympathy than...
...psychiatrists disagree on the symptoms). There are usually signs long before illness is apparent: a predisposition to unsociability, passivity, withdrawal. Yet schizophrenia can also be hidden, then triggered by a demoralizing event, such as loss of a loved person or place ("reality"). The Nimers' decision to settle on Staten Island, far from Dean's beloved Orem, could have been such an event. But why parricide of both parents (and so loss of all security)? The "normal" parricidal pattern is murder of one parent, who threatens a close relationship between the child and the other parent...
...cops scoured Staten Island, picked up suspects, kicked up lawns looking for a knife. They groped for explanations, e.g., maybe the killer was a psychotic from the hospital, checked records, bars, neighbors. But neither dragnet nor theories helped the Nimers. Soon after they were carried out and neighbors took the children away, Loujean and Melvin both died, and with them died the nice family and the dreams that had almost come true...