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MASS KILLING - Adam Peter Lanza is believed to have shot his mother in the head four times on the morning of December 14, 2012 with her own assault rifle. He is then believed to have travelled to nerby Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut wearing a bullet proof vest where he shot his way into the school. Lanza is then believed to have shot and killed 20 elementary school children and 5 adults. He is then believed to have taken his own life. According to accounts in the media Lanza's older brother, Ryan Lanza, told police Adam Lanza was diagnosed with a personality disorder and was "somewhat autistic." Other sources reported in the media stated they believed Lanza suffered from Asperger syndrome.
Adam Lanza Wikipedia page
MURDER SUICIDE - Christopher Krumm is purported to have traveled from his home in Connecticut to Casper, Wyoming in early December, 2012 where his father lived and worked as a professor. At his father's home Krumm stabbed and killed his father's girlfriend. He then traveled to the college where his father was teaching a class and shot his father in the head with a bow and arrow. Krumm then fatally stabbed his father before fatally stabbing himself. In a suicide note described as bizarre and rambling Krumm wrote that his father should have been castrated by the US government so that his genes wouldn't have been passed to Krumm causing him to develop Asperger syndrome. Krumm apparently believed he had Asperger syndrome, but according to Casper police he was self-diagnosed and there was no evidence of a formal diagnosis of any problem. See the AP story on abcnews.go.com here:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/aspergers-referenced-wyo-college-killing-note-18020584#.UNiuE-TZZ2A
MASS KILLING - James Eagan Holmes is the suspect who is expected to be charged with the shooting deaths of at least 12 and shooting injuries of 58 others in the mass shooting that occurred in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado in July 2012. While stopping short of specifically suggesting Holmes was likely autistic, news commentator Joe Scarborough alluded to the idea that shooters in such cases all too often are autistic. Scarborough cited nothing to support his ideas other than making reference to his own adult son with Asperger syndrome. Read about Scarborough's suggestion of a connection between mass shootings and autism at mediaite.com here:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/joe-scarborough-on-autism-remarks-perhaps-i-could-have-made-my-point-more-eloquently/
MASS KILLING - Anders Behring Breivik has acknowledged having killed 77 people in Oslo and on Utoeya island in Norway in July 2011 in furtherance of his extreme social and political views. Breivik's criminal trial focused on his mental condition. The initial psychiatric evaluation conducted for his trial in early 2012 concluded he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, but a subsequent evaluation concluded he is not psychotic. The second evaluation indicated Breivik instead suffers from Asperger syndrome, Tourette syndrome, narcissistic personality disorder and other issues.
Anders Behring Breivik Wikipedia page
MASS KILLING - Jared Lee Laughner is the suspect who is being charged with the shooting deaths of 6 and shooting injuries of 14 others in the mass shooting that occurred in Tucson, Arizona in January 2011 that left a Chief U.S. District Court Judge dead and severly injured a U.S. Representative. In May 2011 Laughner was ruled incompetent to stand trial due to a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Court proceedings have continued since over justifications for forceably treating Laughner with anti-psychotic drugs. The courts have ruled that Laughner cannot be forceably medicated to make him competent to stand trial, but forced treatment based on his and others' safety may be legally justified. In at least two instances it was suggested in high profile news outlets that autism or Asperger syndrome might explain Loughner's behaviour. An article on cnn.com referenced a statement by a forensic psychologist suggesting Loughner be evaluated for autism among other mental conditions and Joe Scarborough of MSNBC purportedly made a comment about Loughner and Virginia Tech mass killer Seung-Hui Cho associating both of them with Asperger syndrome. Read the cnn.com article here:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/12/arizona.shooting.suspect/index.html
Read about Joe Scarborough's comments at psychologytoday.com:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/addiction-in-society/201101/can-we-profile-killers-jared-loughner-nidal-malik-hasan-and-the-va-
Jared Lee Loughner Wikipedia page
COMPUTER HACKING - Ryan Cleary was arrested in 2011 and charged with computer misuse and fraud at age 19 in the UK. Cleary is suspected of being associated with the LulzSec hacking group that is believed to have committed computer attacks against the Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) in Brittain. Cleary is also suspected of being involved in attacks on the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and the British Phonographic Industry. He was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome in June 2011.
LulxZec Wikipedia page containing info about Cleary
MANSLAUGHTER - Aaron Wilkinson admitted to shooting his landlady, who was also his employer, with a shotgun in January 2011 for which he pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to a minimum of five years in prison in July 2012. Wilkinson was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome and post traumatic stress reaction following a six month tour of duty in Afghanistan in the UK territorial army in which he was injured. His mental condition was the basis of his defense of diminished capacity against a murder charge. Read more about the outcome of court proceedings at dailymail.co.uk here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2169801/Soldier-shot-landlady-dead-like-killed-jailed-just-years-jury-hears-Afghanistan-left-mentally-scarred.html#ixzz1zvns4mxg
Find more detail at liveleak.com here:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b89_1332264340
SEXUAL ASSAULT & FRAUD - Gemma Barker pleaded guilty in 2012 to sexual assaults committed starting when she was 19 years old against two teen girls in the UK. Barker disguised herself as 16 year old boys, the same age as the victims. Barker knew both victims from school and approached them under three different fictitious identities via social networking services including Facebook and instant messaging. A court ordered psychological evaluation of Barker prior to sentencing resulted in diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorder and ADHD. Barker pleaded guilty to criminal fraud for claiming that a self-inflicted broken jaw was the result of an assault by a boy who turned out to be one of her own fictitious identities. Barker was sentenced to 30 months in prison. Read more about it at huffingtonpost.co.uk at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/03/05/gemma-barker-girl-who-dressed-as-boy-jailed_n_1320500.html
Watch the television news documentary on channel4.com here:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-girl-who-became-three-boys/4od
Read the National Autistic Society comment on the court case of Gemma Barker on autism.org.uk here:
http://www.autism.org.uk/news-and-events/news-archive/3-march/a-response-to-the-case-of-gemma-baker.aspx
Gemma Barker Wikipedia page
ARSON & CONSPIRACY - William Cottrell was convicted in 2005 of conspiracy and arson for the 2003 vandalizing and firebombing of SUV's in California that was described as eco-terrorism on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front. During his trial in 2004 Cottrell was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. Cottrell's defense was not allowed to present expert testimony about his Asperger syndrome diagnosis at trial which ultimately served as a basis for a federal appeals court panel to overturn the arson conviction, but the conspiracy conviction was upheld. Cottrell was apparently released from prison in August 2011. Read more about the outcome of the court proceedings at latimes.com here:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/suv-bombers-arson-convictions-overturned-sentence-vacated.html
William Cottrell Wikipedia page
Information about the documentary film "Standard Deviation" about Cottrell:
http://www.standarddeviation-themovie.com/longsynopsis.htm
COMPUTER HACKING - Albert Gonzalez was arrested and convicted of hacking crimes involving data from millions of credit cards. Gonzalez was initially arrested in 2003 then went to work as a paid informant for the US Secret Service. While working for the Secret Service Gonzales continued criminal endeavours for which he was ultimately sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2010. Gonzales' defense requesting a lighter sentence because he purportedly suffered from Asperger syndrome and computer addiction. However a psychiatrist for the prosecution countered that neither diagnosis was supported by evidence. Read more about it at wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/tjx-sentencing/
MURDER - Lisa Brown was convicted of the 2008 murder of her mother. Brown was 22 years old at the time of the murder which occurred in Scotland. The victim, her mother, was 51. After her conviction, but prior to sentencing Brown was diagnosed by a psychologist and psychitrist as having Asperger syndrome. According to her attorney the evaluation was prompted when prison authorities became concerned about Brown because of her lack of emotion following the conviction. The diagnosis did not seem to sway the judge who sentenced Brown to 20 years to life in prison. Read more about it on dailymail.co.uk here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210508/Woman-battered-mother-death-torch-jailed-life.html
FIRST DEGREE MURDER - John Odgren was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 2010 for killing a 15 year old fellow high school student in January 2007 by stabbing him repeatedly with a carving knife at school. Odgren had been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome along with a myriad of other conditions and was in a program that integrated special needs children into regular school populations. Odgren was 16 years old at the time of the stabbing. The defence presented at Odgren's trial argued that he was temporarily insane. Read more about it at the Boston Globe website boston.com here:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/04/alensons_family.html
MASS MURDER - Seung-Hui Cho is believed to have killed 32 people and injured 25 others in the mass shooting that occurred at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in April 2007 and then took his own life. Cho was purportedly diagnosed with selective mutism and major depressive disorder in middle school. Family members of Cho in Korea suggested his mother reported that he had been diagnosed with autism in the U.S., but nothing in the insuing investigations of Cho appears to have solidly supported that suggestion. Read more about Cho at time.com here:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1613417,00.html
Seung-Hui Cho Wikipedia page
Read more about the first day of the psychiatrist's testimony on wire.com here:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/02/hans-reisers-fa/
Read more about the second day of the psychiatrist's testimony on wire.com here:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/02/expert-in-reise/
Hans Reiser Wikipedia page
COMPUTER HACKING - Adrian Lamo was convicted of computer crimes involving breaching security at The New York Times, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and MCI WorldCom in the US in 2004. Lamo was peripherally involved in the Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks scandal. Diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome in 2010 following a 72 hour psychiatric hold.
Adrian Lamo Wikipedia page
COMPUTER HACKING - Viachelav Berkovich was arrested and charged in Los Angeles, California in 2008 for fraud involving hacking a Department of Transportation website. After being convicted Berkovich received a reduced sentence in 2009 purportedly due to his diagnosis. Berkovich
was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome in an evaluation prompted by his defense attorney. Read more about it at wired.com here:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/truckers
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/10/fed-blotter-ind/
COMPUTER HACKING - Gary McKinnon is currently fighting extradition from his native UK to the US where authorities would like to prosecute him for allegedly hacking into US military and NASA computers between 2001 and 2002. McKinnon was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome and depression in 2008. Read more about McKinnon on spectrum.ieee.org here:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/the-autistic-hacker/0
Gary McKinnon Wikipedia page
COMPUTER HACKING - Kevin Mitnick recently stated in an interview with Ken Hess of ZDNet on September 13, 2011 (interview) that he was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome in preparation of his criminal defense for a litany of computer and telephone service crimes occurring in the early 1990's. However, Mitnick stated that he does not believe he has Asperger syndrome and the diagnosis was not ultimately used in court. Mitnick was arrested in 1995 after spending over two years living as a fugitive under false identities and eventually pleaded guilty in 1999 for which he served over five years in prison.
Kevin Mitnick Wikipedia page
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