Killeen, Texas strip club killer Richard Tabler has been moved to a psychiatric unit after attemptng suicide earlier this month.
Tabler was sentenced to death for murdering two people connected to the Teazers Strip Club in November 2004. His accomplice in the crime, 2004 East Newton High School graduate Timothy Doan Payne, a soldier at Fort Bragg at the time, was sentenced to life in prison.
Tabler was also at the center of a recent controversy concerning cellphones being smuggled to prisoners.
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I knew him when he was a kid. Different than other kids. Nature not nurture on this one. Sociopath... antisocial... definitely part of dark triad. Inapproprate feelings and lack of reaction according to each situation where others would react as we would expect. He was always studying people, finding out the weaknesses or desires of others in order to be liked, then ultimately manipulate.
ReplyDeleteThen darn it, he was just a little guy. Our hearts just couldn't turn him away until he'd pushed it too far, just to allow him around another day, hoping that having him around some normalcy, and attempting to use each moment as a teachable one could help him.
That backfired on us, and my young brother was convicted of a juvenile crime, the judge saying, "I just can't tell who here is telling the truth." She was honestly perplexed. That's when I lost all sympathy for Tabler.
Then darn it again, I'm sympathetic to someone born incapable of being able to do the things most humans are able to. He took lives; that I will not bow to - ever.
What if we had caught this in Ted Bundy before he ever killed? I don't know of any medication that can grow arms on someone born without them. Do we have medication that can "grow" that mechanism in the brain that grows what is missing?
I know most folks probably can only imagine a bad dude just looking to wrong people at every turn (someone born with all mental faculties, but CHOOSING to wake up each day and set out to be as evil to others as possible.
I'm telling you. This kid was lacking so VERY much understanding of how to function on a social level. What could we have done for little Richard Tabler?
My sister Tiffany dotson was one of the murder victims let me tell u this man is beyond evil he actually turned and laughed at the families of the victims if i could of just got one finger on him
DeleteWhat is the real story of Timothy D Payne, sounds like he was along for the ride, and didn't know what the strip club killer was gonna do. Anyone know?
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