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		<title>Psychopaths, crime and choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1978, Rodney Alcala of California approached Liane Leedom, who was 17 years old at the time. He struck up a conversation, showed her some of his photographs, and then asked to photograph her. Although he was later convicted of murdering four women and a girl, Rodney Alcala did not kill Liane Leedom.
In 1983, Brian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/03/22/psychopaths-crime-and-choice/</link>
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		<title>Rodney Alcala: The “sociopath next door”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday night, I woke up at about 2 AM unable to sleep. I turned on CNN and there was Rodney Alcala, a man who lived down the street from the house I grew up in, in Monterey Park, California. I was not surprised to see a story about him since I knew of his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/03/21/rodney-alcala-the-%e2%80%9csociopath-next-door%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>The Sociopath Holding Court</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(The following is a satirical piece; it is not meant to trivialize sociopaths and the damage they inflict on others. Rather, through satire, the piece is meant to dramatize, in exaggerated fashion, some of the sociopath’s notable  linguistic, defensive and manipulative machinations.)
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, and particularly you, young lady. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/03/18/the-sociopath-holding-court/</link>
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		<title>Psychopaths show overactive dopamine systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do psychopaths go after what they want regardless of the negative consequences they may experience? According to the journal Nature Neuroscience, the answer may be chemical—an overactive dopamine reward system.
Read Driven toward reward without regard for consequence on Time.com.
Read the scientific study, Mesolimbic dopamine reward system hypersensitivity in individuals with psychopathic traits, in Nature [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/03/16/psychopaths-show-overactive-dopamine-systems/</link>
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		<title>Our Family Wizard can help you co-parent with a sociopath</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most heartbreaking dramas that sociopaths create are those that involve children. Many sociopathic parents stand up in court proclaiming that they “only want what is best for the children.” They’re lying. What they really want is to use the children as clubs to beat their ex-partners into submission.
There is no such thing as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/03/15/our-family-wizard-can-help-you-co-parent-with-a-sociopath/</link>
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		<title>Bachelor Number One was a serial killer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in the 70s, Rodney Alcala was a contestant on The Dating Game. He won, but the woman who chose him refused to go out with him. It was probably a good thing, because in February Alcala was found guilty of murdering four women and a child.
Read Convicted serial killer won on &#8220;Dating Game&#8221; on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/03/14/bachelor-number-one-was-a-serial-killer/</link>
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		<title>National Crime Victims&#8217; Rights Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[April 18-24, 2010, is National Crime Victims&#8217; Rights Week. The U.S. Department of Justice is sponsoring a National Observance and Candlelight Ceremony on April 15, 2010, and a National Crime Victims&#8217; Service Awards Ceremony on April 16. Both events are in Washington, D.C.
For more information, visit NCVRW.org.
Link submitted by a Lovefraud reader.
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		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/03/13/national-crime-victims-rights-week/</link>
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		<title>Confessed serial killer says he&#8217;d do it again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A confessed serial killer in Missouri, John Hughes, talks to a television reporter. He says he&#8217;s killed many people, and if he was let out of prison, he&#8217;d do it again.
See the interview on KMBC.com.
Link submitted by a Lovefraud reader.
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		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/03/12/confessed-serial-killer-says-hed-do-it-again/</link>
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		<title>LETTERS TO LOVEFRAUD: Our relationship had three distinct phases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s Note: This story was submitted by a Lovefraud reader who we’ll call “Marcia.”
I met him on Chemistry.com in February of 2009. He wrote to me through the site and we corresponded several times before speaking on the phone. I liked his profile very well and enjoyed his style of writing and what he wrote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/03/12/letters-to-lovefraud-our-relationship-had-three-distinct-phases/</link>
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		<title>Why we fall for the con</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All of us who have been conned by sociopaths ask ourselves, why did I fall for it? How could I have been so stupid to trust him (or her)?
Well, it turns out that there&#8217;s a chemical reason—oxytocin. According to an article on Psychologytoday.com:
Social interactions engage a powerful brain circuit that releases the neurochemical oxytocin when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/03/11/why-we-fall-for-the-con/</link>
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