KSIS : At the heart of psychopathy

When a young woman gets the highest score ever recorded on the psychopathy test, can her beauty save her?

French “Larousse Medical” describes psychopathy as:

 ”State of psychological imbalance characterized by asocial tendencies without intellectual deficit or psychotic impairment. According to psychoanalysts, the psychopath would be subject to an “archaic” all-powerful morality, inciting him to seek a marginal, but coercive, environment in conflict with the established order.“

According to Canadian psychologist ROBERT HARE, a person can be judged as a psychopath using a test called PCL-R with a twenty-factor scale, each obtaining between 0 and 2 points. An individual can then receive more or less points depending on whether he has minimal traits or some psychopathy. In his 2003 book “The Hare Psychopathie Cheklist-Revised“, HARE highlights the following factors:

1. Glibness/superficial charm
2. Egocentricity/grandiose sense of self-worth
3. Proneness to boredom/low frustration tolerance
4. Pathological lying and cepetion
5. Conning/lack of sincerity
6. Lack of remorse or guilt
7. Lack of affect and emotional depth
8. Callous/lack of empathy
9. Parasitic lifestyle
10. Short-tempered/poor behavioral controls
11. History of promiscuous secual relations
12. History of early behavior problems
13. Lack of realistic, long-term plans
14. Impulsivity
15. Irresponsible behavior
16. Frequent marital relationships
17. History of juvenile delinquency
18. Revocation of conditional release
19. Failure to accept responsility for own actions
20. May types of offense

Each of these factors highlights four main categories: interpersonal bond, emotional bond, lifestyle, and associability. The criminal case discussed today is that of a young woman, nicknamed EOM. Her identity and face have never been revealed to the public, so little information is available about her, except that she would be endowed with great beauty, comparable to those of the most famous actresses. Similarly, all the victims and people concerned by this case have not been disclosed. But what makes EOM so special is its uplifting PCL-R test result, achieving no less than 40/40 to the twenty factors mentioned above. The only woman to get a perfect score, her lust for money lead her killing many people.

EOM was born in 1976, in the heart of a rather rich family. After finishing high school, she ran away from her mother’s house, and started working as an insurance salesman, and quickly led a life beyond her means, spending money as if there was no tomorrow, and partying to excess. Finding herself quickly penniless, she decides to look for a husband who could support her. Her choice is based on a young man in his early twenties, like her, who is intellectually deficient. Finding herself the perfect candidate, and his handicap being light, she marries him and quickly a little girl comes to enlarge the family.

Expenses intensified, and EOM’s disdain for her husband increased. When she was only three years old, her daughter tragically died falling from an office, her death marking the beginning of a series of mysterious deaths that will surround EOM thereafter. The young woman who wanted to divorce then had a brilliant idea: she who had learned the mechanics of insurance could quickly earn a lot of money following domestic accidents, the most paying being death, blindness, deafness, and destruction of property or fire-related injuries. The plans begin to flow into her evil mind, and very quickly, her husband will pay the price.

One day, the man falls violently down the stairs and after a visit to the hospital, receives nearly 230 € in compensation for insurance. Then, in unexplained ways, fell twice and had concussions[1] that left him without memories of the accidents. The sums paid by the insurance were not sufficient in the eyes of EOM, so she prepared a cocktail of sleeping pills and antidepressants for her husband who, plunged into a sleep of lead, woke up with atrocious pains in his eyes: EOM had planted nurse pins in his orbits.

Taken to the hospital, it was with difficulty that he was told that he would never regain his sight. Blind, he was convinced by EOM that all this was an unfortunate accident, and to prove the loving wife that she was, remained faithfully at his bedside during his recovery. Her in-laws found her to be a most exemplary wife, who suffered the sudden death of her daughter and the handicap of her husband. When the man recovered from his wounds, EOM escorted him home, and a few days later, scalded him by throwing a pot of boiling water in his face. Surviving, she stabbed him with a kitchen knife three times, EOM defending herself by pointing out that her husband had a mental disability and that as a result of his disability, he was trying to take his own life.

While in hospital for his stabbing injury, he eventually died of infectious cellulitis[2] in May 2000. EOM is only 24 years old when she becomes a widow, but is quickly comforted by collecting her husband’s death insurance to the amount of 230,000,000 won, or nearly €153,000. For the family of the deceased, never EOM who was so sweet, caring, kind and beautiful could not be related to the tragic death of her husband. After all, being newly blind, domestic accidents could easily occur. A month later, while enjoying her wealth between expensive shopping and going out, she met a man who would quickly become her new husband in a nightclub. Not being aware of EOM’s past, he married her and was satisfied when she became pregnant within a few months. A year had not passed since the death of the first husband that EOM bored again, and prepared her next blow.

After receiving a drink so lovingly prepared by his beautiful wife, the man sank into the deepest sleep, only to wake up blind after having sewing needles planted in the eyes. EOM stayed by his side every moment during his stay in the hospital, but he did not have time to get out since he suddenly died of infectious cellulite. Pained, her parents encouraged EOM to abort, but she refused and even celebrated a marriage posthumously in honor of her late husband. Then she gave birth to a little boy. As soon as she received death insurance, she cut ties with her in-laws and decided to change strategy for her next loot.

Being widowed twice in a year would eventually attract attention, so she decided to attack her own family this time. This was already the case, as her in-laws began to distrust her by discovering that she had lied about her past – her education, her family, her work -, and that she had asked for a marriage certificate while her husband was in hospital, certificate essential for insurance. EOM resumed his luxurious view mode, and after preparing a tea filled with medicine for her mother, stuck a syringe in her eyes. Her older brother had hydrochloric acid poured into his eyes, and both became blind.

The police began to notice the strange connection between all of his people in the close entourage of EOM who mysteriously lost their sight. When the big brother was heard by the police, she decided to wait until he was alone at her little brother’s house to set the apartment on fire. The two young men survived, but ended up badly burned. She also managed to convince her mother to sell her apartment, and squandered that money on shopping. EOM then went to her daughter’s former babysitter, telling her about the fire and crying to her to offer her hospitality for a month while she found a new place to live. With pity, the babysitter agreed, and for a month, EOM did not commit any misconduct.

On the thirtieth day, when EOM had to leave the baby-sitter’s apartment, she set it on fire: the husband died in the fire, and the baby-sitter’s daughter suffered heavy burns. It was also discovered that EOM’s second husband also suffered contusion and went to the hospital several times before dying for domestic injuries. In all, between the death of her two husbands, and the wounds of her mother and two brothers, she received from the insurance 596,000,000 won, nearly €397,800, over almost five years.

Her son was then diagnosed with Kawasaki disease, characterized by inflammation of the blood vessels throughout the body and mostly affecting children who then have fever, rashes, and sometimes cardiac complications. However, it is easily cured with aspirin and immunoglobulin. EOM spent all that was left of her money on treatments for her son, even stealing the credit card of a lady she met in the hospital. Despite everything, his son died mysteriously, and EOM played with his charm to the lady so that she accepts her excuses; claiming to have acted as a desperate mother in front of the distress of her child. Once again, the beautiful young woman was taken in pity and a roof was offered to her.

While she had promised that she would reimburse all expenses incurred on the stolen credit card – knowing that she had shopped with it in addition to paying the hospital -, EOM preferred to kill the lady, and made her drink the cursed cocktail. Needles planted in the eyes, the lady was able to react quickly enough to rush to the emergency room and only partially lose her sight. Desperate, because knowing that she was soon denounced, EOM decided to set fire to the hospital in February 2005, and was arrested after video cameras showed her lighting the fire, which fortunately did not cause any casualties.

Cornered by the police, EOM began to explain that she needed money to buy and use drugs, but after extensive testing, no trace of drugs was found in her system. So she pleaded madness, the death of her daughter having made him decompensate. The PCL-R test highlighted her severe psychopathy and she was also diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder: a mental condition characterized by an omnipresent pattern of instability in relationships, self-image, moods, behavior and hypersensitivity to the possibility of rejection and abandonment. EOM was therefore sentenced to life imprisonment, after his younger brother was given a judicial statement against him.

During her trial, she never apologized to her family and those of the many victims concerned. At the time of his arrest, he was 29 years old and was identified as one of the following:

Today, although her identity remains secret, the beauty of EOM has entered the legend, allowing her to coax men, women, and her own-family. Some even think that the death of her children is not so accidental. And you, would you be ready to undergo the PCL-R and face its terrible result?

[1] Traumatic brain injury resulting in bruising of brain tissue due to absence of post-shock disorders.

[2] Severe diffuse inflammation of connective tissues of the dermal and subcutaneous layer.

Journalist : Pillet Anaïs
Photos : Sous photos
Sources : KSTATION TV