There was a similar case in Northern VA in the late 90’s where a teenaged boy of a Taiwanese immigrant family killed his parents (and IIRC, one or two siblings). He was involved in a local gang, and lived off of his inheritance quite comfortably for a few years until he had a falling out w/his girlfriend who then turned him in. He told all of the family’s local friends that they had returned to Taiwan to keep up the charade.

Same as Jennifer Pan, slowly lies become an imaginary construct which had to unravel, at once.
Just like bankruptcy, it starts gradually and then all at once ….

If you’re normal in the head you have no chance against such people ….

http://www.amazon.com/In-Sheeps-Clothing-Understanding-Manipulative/dp/1935166301

The important thing to know is that they are not wounded and masking unbearable psychological pain caused by their upbringing, etc. They do what they do on purpose to get their way.

What I think is interesting is how society now uses words like psychopath instead of simply calling them evil. Whether or not she was a psychopath she was clearly evil. Neo obviously knows the difference, but so many people do not. To me this is one of the most scary things about society today.

On a different note, this is the first true crime story I’ve read in which someone hires a hitman in which the hitman does not turn out to be an undercover cop. That’s excluding stories where the person is a member of the Mafia. I’m guessing “Homeboy” was Daniel’s drug dealer or something. Normal people do not have the connections to find someone to kill for money.

Damaged ‘wiring’…”

An alternative explanation is that psychopathy is a highly successful evolutionary strategy which leads to reproductive success for many individual psychopaths. In the animal world psychopaths may be analogous to killer bees which resemble normal honey bees but are much more aggressive and end up taking over hives.

Some cultures are more amenable to psychopaths to give them a competitive reproductive advantage. Perhaps the culture the culture which has been most hospitable to psychopaths over the last millennium is Islam which has always depended primarily on plunder and exploitation of non-Muslims to survive.

The solution is to admit that her childhood days were over.

And that it was now impossible/ too late to stay on the Tiger Mommy track.

For their daughter to NOT graduate from high school — for an Asian/ Oriental is absolutely extraordinary.

The only explanation is that she was skipping classes something phenomenal.

Once her perfidy was revealed professional counselling was in order… because the gal was w a a a y off the rails.

Instead, they did the absolute worst: clamping down on the pressure release.

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Such ‘blow ups’ are strikingly common in the Orient.

Japan, Korea, China all routinely reveal family tragedies of this type. However, the single most common resolution is suicide by the child.

And like the gal in question the other resolution is to massively cheat ‘the system.’ This is normally done by employing ringers to take ones critical tests, and submitting plagiarized work.

The above cheats are now pandemic across China, Korea and Japan. It’s the primary reason you can’t trust the nominal IQs that flow from the Orient. The fake scores lift them up to Ashkenazi standards — whereas their adult performances are right back down with the Finns.

The perp has to be judged very high on the psychopathic scale.

Her crime was one of pure volition and pre-meditation — of an extreme sort.

Life in prison — w/o parole — or death by lethal injection. Both would be just.