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Prosectors: she was there because she was hiding from OP.
Defense: …

Seriously, what could the defense say, other than, “no, she was there to pee”? They have to say something.

I’m sure they’d have loved to reply: “actually, she’d freakily decided to dress as a ninja and crawl along in the roof-space, it’s not suprising OP thought she was a robber”, but that totally doesn’t fit.

The fact she was peeing doesn’t excuse OP mistaking her for a robber. So it doesn’t help his case in that sense. However, it’s a hell of a lot better for his case than the idea that she was actively hiding from him.

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Certainly. With APD comes a profound and consistent inability to empathize with the pain being inflicted, and often correlates with sadism.
I don’t believe Oscar displays traits that I know of that would put him in the APD category, but NPD possibly, BPD possibly [if he felt after the possible argument Reeva was going to leave him, or if he felt betrayed by something on her phone he may have found, and also because he may have been both psychologically and physiologically incapable of regulating his emotional reaction to the incident due to an undersized prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus as some studies suggest is the case with BPD.
That's if he's guilty, which I believe he is based on his version of events making no sense [unless he has profound PTSD,in that case I could see how he'd behave so illogically].

I also agree that personality disorders are mental illnesses. I think a lot of people like to say otherwise in order to hold people more accountable. I have BPD and it’s definitely a mental illness in my book.

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So why on earth, in that moment would it not have simply occurred to him that someone (maybe, I dunno, his guest?) had gone in there to pee? Especially since he couldn’t see anything in the room anyway?

Anywho, I suppose it doesn’t matter in the end. Just another hole in a completely unbelievable story. This dude’s guilty as sin.

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Thanks. I’m pretty dizzy, had to go to the hospital yesterday as my bp was so low I was in shock, so I’m glad I made any kind of sense.

Lady X, you are spot on.
The idea that Oscar didn’t think to find it odd Reeva wasn’t making a sound as he shouted to the “intruder”, especially if he presumed she was in the bed in the room with him as he shouted, is preposterous.

Of course, being that his holster was found on her side of the bed, his claim that he thought she was in the bed is categorically ridiculous anyway and an obvious lie. That’s the Colombo [sp?] moment in this investigation, and his single greatest oversight.

I also think it’s absurd that he wouldn’t have checked on her first and foremost if he believed an intruder entered the house. What is a man’s greatest fear about an intruder coming into the home where he and his woman are sleeping? Not the theft of a television set, that’s for sure. Most men are going to fear their wife/girlfriend will be raped and/or killed, I’d imagine checking on the safety of your spouse is the first thing to go through anyone’s mind in that situation.

Above all else, I look at it this way:

I wake up in the middle of the night. I hear noises. First thing I do is check to see if my boyfriend is in the room with me asleep.If I notice a light on in another room, as Oscar said he did with the bathroom, I’m DEFINITELY going to look at the bed and see if my boyfriend is in it. This would be so automatic, a complete reflex, not something that takes any intentional thought or awareness. I wouldn’t even be afraid hearing a noise/seeing a light on in the house if my boyfriend was in the house with me, I would first assume it was my boyfriend going to the bathroom or the kitchen or something.

He wants us to believe he woke up to bring the fan inside, saw a light on in the bathroom and heard noises and immediately jumped to the conclusion it was a burglar before even checking to see if it was Reeva. It’s a profoundly stupid defense.

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I see where you’re coming from. I agree it’s bad practice to try and diagnose someone based on media reports alone, lol.
I also think when it comes to domestic violence murders, a lot is different. These are crimes of passion. I do believe the men most prone to them are men with Axis 1 or 2 issues. I would say NPD, BPD, APD, and Bipolar or clinical depression account for a great deal of domestic violence incidents.

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As for profiling, I believe it is a useful and effective tool and I firmly believe that some people have a gift for it (I wanted to do forensic psychiatry, but I really have difficulty with crime scenes and crime scene photos.) But again, you’re using more than court reports and media reports to create the profile. You’re using crime scene analysis and patterns of behavior to get the profile. One of the things I learned in my forensics rotation is that it’s nearly impossible to build a profile based on one murder.

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I don’t see the point in tearing into someone for speculating that a celebrity and apparent callous murderer is narcissistic and/or sociopathic.
She wasn’t putting it in his file for god’s sake, she was speculating, and she wasn’t speculating wildly.
Forensic psychologists, we don’t always get to “diagnose in a clinical setting”. We look at patterns from afar, often times without even knowing the identity of a suspect, and make our best guess as to their mental state based on their crimes and patterns. Profiling. And in my experience it’s quite effective. There is controversy surrounding the “art” of profiling, for sure, but it’s a useful investigative tool.

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