Casey Sepp

He had arrived at this defense partly because even though it was before an official diagnosis of PTSD even existed, Robert Burns had served in Vietnam and had, like a lot of men who served in Vietnam in combat, had had a very harrowing experience and had lost another nephew during Vietnam and had seen many of his victims.

He had arrived at this defense partly because even though it was before an official diagnosis of PTSD even existed, Robert Burns had served in Vietnam and had, like a lot of men who served in Vietnam in combat, had had a very harrowing experience and had lost another nephew during Vietnam and had seen many of his victims.

many of the men in his unit die, and actually the episode in the church, in the chapel, when Robert Burns murdered the Reverend was just a PTSD episode, and that, you know, he had just been temporarily insane in that moment and not able to distinguish between right and wrong, and that was what led him to murder the Reverend, and he could not be held responsible because it was just an episode of PTSD.

many of the men in his unit die, and actually the episode in the church, in the chapel, when Robert Burns murdered the Reverend was just a PTSD episode, and that, you know, he had just been temporarily insane in that moment and not able to distinguish between right and wrong, and that was what led him to murder the Reverend, and he could not be held responsible because it was just an episode of PTSD.

He was just trying to remind the jury that a very bad man had been killed and a very bad man who was menacing the community in a way the police couldn't stop was finally stopped by his client.

He was just trying to remind the jury that a very bad man had been killed and a very bad man who was menacing the community in a way the police couldn't stop was finally stopped by his client.

It's pretty incredible. You know, she did exactly what she had done with Truman Capote out in Kansas when he was working on In Cold Blood.

It's pretty incredible. You know, she did exactly what she had done with Truman Capote out in Kansas when he was working on In Cold Blood.

And when they were investigating the Clutter murders together, she got to know the lawyers who were involved in these cases and looked for evidence in primary source documents and, you know, went to the Department of Vital Statistics and obtained death certificates and birth certificates and, you know, paid the court reporter for a full transcript of the Burns trial and went and interviewed, you know,

And when they were investigating the Clutter murders together, she got to know the lawyers who were involved in these cases and looked for evidence in primary source documents and, you know, went to the Department of Vital Statistics and obtained death certificates and birth certificates and, you know, paid the court reporter for a full transcript of the Burns trial and went and interviewed, you know,

relatives of the Reverend and relatives of the Reverend's victims and, you know, just scooted around town busy as a bee for almost a year.

relatives of the Reverend and relatives of the Reverend's victims and, you know, just scooted around town busy as a bee for almost a year.

when she had finished the reporting of the Reverend and tried to do the writing, it seems to have become difficult in the way that all writing projects had been difficult for her. And even worse than that, she was one of these writers who had, you know, strong feelings about how, you know, serious writing had to be difficult and you had to struggle for it.

when she had finished the reporting of the Reverend and tried to do the writing, it seems to have become difficult in the way that all writing projects had been difficult for her. And even worse than that, she was one of these writers who had, you know, strong feelings about how, you know, serious writing had to be difficult and you had to struggle for it.

And, you know, she would go around quoting Jean Fowler saying, you know, that writing, you know, writing was what happened when you sat down to the typewriter and waited for your forehead to bleed and I just think that can be such a self-reinforcing notion about writing. So however optimistic and excited she was when she was in Alexander City, when she left, she really struggled with the book.

And, you know, she would go around quoting Jean Fowler saying, you know, that writing, you know, writing was what happened when you sat down to the typewriter and waited for your forehead to bleed and I just think that can be such a self-reinforcing notion about writing. So however optimistic and excited she was when she was in Alexander City, when she left, she really struggled with the book.