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paji2 wrote on Jul 28Some people have no repentance within them; they enjoyed the killing .. may even boast of it. Perhaps the statue was a boastful sign - I did this, but you will not get me to say I am sorry, I'll just laugh at you and laugh at the statue too.

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ullangoo wrote on Jul 28I think it's more likely that he put the statue there in order to convince other people that he was a good Christian. Show-case religion. Or maybe it's a work of art and a good investment. Or both.I kind of like the above laugh-theory too, though.

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imelnychenko wrote on Jul 28, edited on Jul 28Actually, it is an example of anisocial behavior disorder: killing somebody for money (somebody, be it my own son, must die anyway, but why not to get rich because of his death?). The question is now: does the person with the antisocial behavior disorder can feel guilty? The answer is: no. This is the way they are antisocial (these disorders are classified as egosyntonic, the ego is not troubled, no regret, no repentance). But why did he put the St Mary in his garden? There can be many explanations for a statue standing in a garden. I guess his disorder subsided slowly and he felt a kind of guilt and a need to protect his ego (feeling more comfortably). So you've seen the statue of St Mary in his garden.And the protection of our ego is an essencial property of our egos. As long as the ego exists there is a protection. Modern psychiatry classifies the ego-protective reactions to mature and immature. The first ones are: humorisation, altruism, suppression (consciously not thinking about what you've done) and sublimation. They all are "good" towards the other egos, to the rest of the world. Compare these to some of immature reactions: intellectualization, splitting (absolutely good/evil), projection (actually, it is my wife who betrayed me), displacement (beating my kid when angry with my wife)... To add: all these reactions are unconscious. So, whom you gonna blame;)