Various motivations for both homicide and posthumous dismemberment among defendants who attempted to plead Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI) were analyzed. Cases were drawn from print and online sources, as well as the Radford/Florida Gulf Coast Universities Serial Killer Database (SKD). These were compared to 30 cases in which no posthumous dismemberment was observed. Drawing from a larger study of cases of single or repeat homicide followed by dismemberment on at least one occasion, we examined 38 in which offenders pleaded the insanity defense. Such seemingly bizarre conduct may suggest, at first glance, aberrant mental states. Little is known about the success of the insanity defense in homicide cases involving posthumous dismemberment.
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