Autumn And neither was the fact that some people say he was getting rid of the garbage, a defense, he wasn't doing the world or anyone a favour by murdering those women, he did it for his self gratefication he didn't care or love anyone but himself, he was concerned about no one else, that all came from and was about himself and his pathically little egho, he has no conscience, he is a dead man walking and his Pacemaker will probably stop working because that pathic loser probably won't survive Prison for long, pray for that, nope.
@@MariaMaria-wv1sy Wasn't he a drug addict himself or nah??? If so, the excuses behind the heinous acts he committed towards those women make no sense to me and it's unjustifiable. He was no better than them.
Autumn not to excuse his actions but the trauma he experienced as a child is the main reason why he commuted these crimes as well as him being on drugs. This man is sick and needs help not to be executed.
@@tierrasumlin3575 he kept beheaded bodies in his house and would torture woman for hours and hours. I think execution fits just fine. I'm usually the one to suggest that people should get help rather than be sentenced to death. But this isn't one of those things. His home was a true House of Horrors.
@@Brix101 some people are just sick and no matter if they had all the help in the world they would kill. People join the military to kill. Killing is normal human behaviour.
simmick1 that’s the thing, the fact he’s acting normal shows he’s a psychopath and if he wasn’t, he’d feel very emotional and would show remorse for what he did, he didn’t.
I was thinking the same. When i saw unseen the survivors even said that there was never anything that felt off or not right and when you work the street this is something that u adapt to feeling. And i know this personally but i thought to myself damn when i was out there in addiction workin the street if he had approached me i would have most likely went with him that's a scary thought. And I'm so happy to not have to do that anymore
Its called sociopath. His sister said he was very mean as a child. Then went into army or marines one of them. Released n was suppose to be on a watch list. So its not just white people fthey dont watch after release from army or marines n suppose to be watched.
Maria Maria Psychopaths and Sociopaths who commit these crimes almost always have a sexual component that stems to childhood, usually (again almost always) from the mother of the male. This is so so important to understand as most Psychopaths are not murderers. But the traits such as prone to violence, lack of empathy and remorse, narcissism, etc combined with early childhood abuse is a lethal cocktail. This info is important at least in my eyes, to understand the why and how, so we can do a better job protecting each other.
@@staysick01 I agree it's no excuse for all he did but u cannot accuse the facts that individuals that have this ability to conflict these types of crimes stem from something horrific. Even his sister spoke about him being a very mean child. And I'm confused because she spoke about there mother in a positive light.
sparkle gazer I agree with you. The person definitely has something inside of them to allow them to commit these crimes. The vast majority of childhood abuse and sexual abuse victims don’t go out murdering people.
Okay... so, what's the point? I was subjected to many, many horrors as a child that lead into my teens. I'm not a serial killer. This guy is a monster. Plane and simple.
It's a mix of things. People like this are usually predisposed, whether genetically or neurologically, to act out violently towards others. Abuse as a child can push them over the edge, this is the case with many serial murderers.
Not everyone has the same predispositions to become a serial killer. if you have the right predispositions and youre pushed early in life with a horrible childhood, then you end up with a serial killer. What you are failing to understand is that the horrible childhood experiences aewnt what directly cause someone to become a serial killer. There are people that are predisposed to becoming a serial killer if given the right push, and Anthony Sowell is one of these people. If he had a betrer childhood maybe this wouldn't have happened. So I don't think you should body about how you didn't become a serial killer due to your traumatic childhood, because you do not have the predispositions to become a serial killer. Anthony Sowell could very well had live a normal life if his childhood trauma didn't happen. Not everyone is the same man, some people have more fragile mental states.. and they become auicidal, homicidal, etc from certain experience. Would you be here bragging how your childhood trauma didn't result in you committing suicide if someone else did commit suicide from their childhood trauma? it's the same exact thing. Some people are more predisposed to commuting suicide than others as a result of the very same traumatic experiences. There are people out there with much more fragile mental states than you that can't cope with the things you have, and they end up suicidal or worse, homicidal. Please take what I said seriously and reconsider your stances. I'm glad you are strong enough to overcome your trauma, but not everyone is that strong. Anthony Sowell may very well have led a normal life if these traumatic experience didn't push his already fragile mental state over the top into serial killer territory. Hope what I'M saying makes sense
I watched a doc about him where a girl saw a headless woman up stairs and tried to tell the police but she had a warrant and they wanted her to come in and she did not and they ignored her complaint,she said the body was sitting up right in a chair so that might have been the body???
PFC Anthony Sowell was in my platoon, July 78 to July 79 when I was stationed at MCAS, Cherry Point, N. C. He was actually a pretty good Marine from what I remember of him after 35 years. Some things went horribly wrong in his life after he left the service.
He started raping his niece on a regular basis when he was 10 years old. A woman came forward and stated that he raped her during the 1970s when he was in the marine corp but it went unreported until now. Even though he was a registered sex offender, he got away with 4 more reported rapes after he got out of prison before the 11 bodies were discovered. Most likely more murder victims will be connected to him in the future. He was always a monster.
I witnessed one of my siblings being abused and beaten. I also suffered the same treatment time after time but I did not carry out that same behaviour on innocent victims.
when you say "abused AND beaten" what did u mean by abused if u said beaten afterwards? i understand there are other types of abuse and i suffered beatings myself so in no way am i asking to judge you i just am curious.
I totally agree with you as me I experienced trauma I was kidnapped when y was seven years old by family members of my father side I was bitten put to clean the house and cooking always got hit Didn't had any happiness or free time all just work and I didn't do anything to anyone
You can look at their bad childhood as an excuse, or an explanation. He knows he isn’t gonna get declared innocent. He’s telling you how he became so messed up. 99 percent of criminals have bad childhoods. Raising your children well, is important for a reason.
I understand what you are saying. However, when does one take control of themselves? When does one exercise self control? He could've seeked help. It's nothis mama's fault, He chose to do what he did. Everything begins with a thought. Sometimes it is acting out one's fantasy that causes these types of problems in society.
I grew up in a war home also. I've been hit with chain's sticks, hit in the head with a show and tell, like a little tv. Hit every day for as far as i could remember till around 11, almost died once no hospital. I'm not a monster and have no violent criminal record not one. So I'm sure you understand when i say what this man says means nothing to me.
While he deserves his punishment --- this is a great example of what abusive parenting can do ...... just think if he had been mentored when he was young --- all those poor women would probably still be alive. God help the families!
at some stage we all have to accept responsibility for our future and destiny and stop blaming stuff on out parents . yes the road to adulthood may have been difficult however as an adult we have the power to change all of that and take a different path
I was born and raised in Cleveland Ohio. A lot of what went on in his child hood is somewhat normal fir black families. Being mine was not that bad. They wanted to build this guy as a normal guy that suffered a traumatic childhood and this is the reason he became a serial killer. This was prob drug related, I'm almost sure and he had some anger issues with women he never got help for!
+Lisa Dismuke, He's a _narcopath_. That is just a little word my favorite Professor calls pathological narcisissts + sociopaths. It's a little easier than saying _malignant narcisisst and psychopath_. Now what *is* very common in the black community is pathological narcisissm and this runs especially high with the sistas. Pathological or malignant narcisissts should never ever have children because they are the mose toxic people on earth and they're far too selfish to successfully handle the role of the most selfLESS job there is, *PARENTHOOD!* Well, its supposed to be selfLESS anyways. I'm not sure if genuine psychopathic genetics were passed on to Sowell, but I have absolutly zero doubt that he is a product of his own enviornment which would make him a sociopath for sure. Regardless of his upbringing and any tradegys he suffered as a child, or teen, in in no way excuses him of his actions. Of course you can never ever ever convince a pathological-malignant-psychopathic-narcisisst like Sowell of that because Cluster B personalitys like him _never_ think they're wrong, always think the rules dont apply to them, and that it's everybody else who is wrong and who has wronged them! I guarantee you that Sowell regards himself as the victim, not the perp. Thats typical for a Cluster B.
Lisa we as black parents need to raise our children better. childhood has a lot to do with us as adults. I studied this in college. It's not an excuse but a fact. Some people are more affected by their childhood than others.
He opened himself up to demons, through drug use and other doors he opened. He literally is housed with demons. Very dark spirits in a realm he connected with them and they entered him. They're still inside him, thus the speech he's giving, just more abuse flying out of his mouth "it wasn't my fault."
His sister's testimony left me scratching my head. He has/had a sister who he supposedly love and was very close to yet he killed women who looked like her. The women he killed were sisters to someone too. He was mostly just cruel, mean, arrogant and had an unearned undeserved sense of entitlement like most sociopath/psychopath.
Damn, his childhood so bad he was able to take music classe, have friends and live normal. Then joined the military to prove a point to his mother, the alleged abuser. But his childhood was bad?? He remembering the lies he told himself, because niece doesn't remember any of that bs regarding him being inflicted. The lies!
When abuse can be proven in a criminal’s history, be it physical or/and sexual, I say proven because anyone who broke the law could adopt this line of defence in court if they believed it would lesson what they did, do you believe sentencing should be lighter and be variable degrees of lighter sentencing dependant on extremes of abuse they endured?
Yes, but, i think it is deeper than that. Every human is different, every situation is different. But, MOST people that go through similar situations that Anthony did, did not grow up to rape and strangle women.
I don't see what some of you guys saw because He looks and sounds like a psychopath. I don't see anything normal about him! He tried to cry but he doesn't know how to do that. God bless the souls that he harmed!🙏
I think he got away for a long time because he comes across as intelligent and unassuming. A lot of black males look very aggressive but he didn't, he is not a big build and seems quiet and laid back. People thought he wasn't all that bad. Fact is he was hiding an evil side.
I'm not a fan of the death penalty because someone could be wrongly convicted but there could be a special case for serial killers because, if I'm not mistaken, no one has been wrongly convicted of serial killing.
he lived in the house & cooked his food where dead bodies of his victims laid decomposing out in open space on the floor. it stunk of dead humans blocks away from his house and he was stepping over rotting corpses to make his coffee. wtf?? it probably took months for the smell which had probably saturated his entire system, to completely cycle out of his body through his pours after he was arrested and imprisoned. this guy would've been dead in another few months from the exposure to chemical gasses emitting from his dead body roommates. I think Anthony Sowell is responsible for more killings from years before this and maybe he stopped for years and tried to keep it to himself and get his sht together but relapsed and this is the result. this dude was S I C K & twisted. he suffered a criminal insanity because his wires were crossed not because of his childhood. no childhood is a picnic so you can't blame it on that.
How does a person heal and develop themselves when you are raised in a world of rejection and yelling and pure hell? How do you get beyond a horrific childhood? I thank my God every day for parents who gave me a secure place from the world outside.
+C_ Farther Pure hell???? Really? What kind of a perfect world do you live in? This guy's childhood is not that bad at all. A LOT of people I know would trade places with him.
He has no remorse.. I put him in the Bundy and Dahmer cat.. none of them showed any remorse.. it is very disturbing. That's how you know they were born evil
I was gonna say my mother always always always told me look at a person's eyes. because they reveal crazy people. His eyes look crazy. He has no feelings. I dont know what it is about eyes but the eyes somehow have s connection to the brain and it usually indicates that there is something wrong. I sae this documentary on Amazon prime and decided to look for more info on RU-vid.
i truly don't understand the purpose of this...it's not like the knowledge of his history will undo the murders he committed. obviously, something is wrong with his mind & i would say that about anyone that can kill people, dismember their bodies & then sleep in the same house w/ their corpse. it doesn't take a md to establish that he's a nut..or a trial to lock his ass away. unless, he intends to give the families closure by given details of each murder, this is utter b.s.
It's just more abuse and terrorizing he wants to throw at the victims. He's enjoying making them uncomfortable and is his way of mocking them in a sick veiled sort of way.
I can see how growing up in a household like he did unrestrained lust and not knowing how to receive or give real affection a person could become unable to respond in the right way to sex. That’s horrible. I hear some folks say that the absence of a father in the home makes little girls look for affection in the wrong way just any kind of attention is considered love to them.
Oh boo hoo hoo. Man up and take your punishment like a man! Him playing cello has nothing to do with anything. Im 53, grew up in a home with constant fighting and an alcoholic father and I've never even gotten so much as a parking ticket in my life.
Lol rukm...serial killers get away with their heinous crimes/murders, because #1 they're rarely under the radar or under suspicion...because they appear to be "normal".
They always try to blame "their childhood." The end will come when he is executed (he is on death row for now). The families need closure and it will come when this serial killer is executed.
If you watch the documentary called unseen , pause it at exactly 1:07:00 and you can see the evil in his eyes looking at the woman who testified against him as she was walking away. Gave me chills.
I watched it. During that part when he was looking at her, I know the thoughts that kept running through his mind where "I should've killed her too". Shitty childhood or not , dude raped multiple woman and murdered 11. He was despicable.
@@jazminepowell2420 I accidentally did it and gave me chills.. it's so wild .. you get to see just a bit at how he really is. If nobody else had been there , he would've killed her
He didn't have a evil look about his eyes he was looking over his glasses. He was probably amazed at how different she looked compared to the last time he seen her.
To play at forensic psychologist- most, if not all, serial killers use some sort of drugs or alcohol to muster up the courage to commit the crimes. Most of the time social inhibitions limit the sexual killer to merely fantasizing, planning, and stalking. When they go over the top they are typically loaded.
I find it interesting that he became violent after he smoked crack. It was as if he became a serial killer when high though not when he was straight. I wonder if the human brain on crack shows diminished activity in the pre-frontal or exacerbates an already diminished level of activity..
Is he guilty? Yes. But, people commenting need to stop saying certain particular things ... Yes, some people have gone through the same thing Anthony has (and his sisters), as in abuse as a child and what not, just plain horrible treatment as a kid and have your innocence taken away very young, and that may be fine for --you-- later on in life, but not all people cope the same way. Treatments like this, some people later in life find motivation from it to strive and better themselves and be better parents then their parent's were. Other people turn into ... well, this (serial killer) or abusive parents themselves or whatever. It happens. Not everyone acts/lashes out in the same way. Just because you didn't doesn't mean someone else wont. Your own overcomance doesn't justify someone else's. That's all. With that being said, he is guilty, a serial killer, and deserves punishment, but he also seems like a level headed guy and I believe that he wasn't born to kill, and that if he had a normal childhood he would be a different man today. Just my thoughts. I could be wrong, but my opinion.
No one us born a killer it's a decision, most killers know they need help but refuse of deny they need to because a lot of them have high IQ`s and and are sociopaths or narcissistic.
Okay so couple days ago me and my dad drove past the lot where hid all those bodies and then my dad said do you know who Anthony Sowell is and I was like no and he was like search it up and this what I found
Don't get me wrong. I respect your right to your opinion and even agree with it for the most part. In the final analysis though, someone like Sowell, whatever his history or motivations, cannot be allowed to have contact with society again. I'll leave the death penalty argument for others.
He is a sick man, no doubt about that. But I feel bad for him...well the child him I guess. Whenever I see things like this I always think about the fact that at one time he was an innocent little boy that just wanted love and affection. But instead was beaten, and molested! It makes me so sick what "people" can do to their own kids!
what does his childhood have to do with murdering people ? not many people have great childhoods but they don't grow up to be murders justifying their acts on the way they grew up. we all have a choice .
We do have control over our mind and what we do, but it's about choices, my mind suggested things but, I prayed and asked for guidance and forgiveness it definitely helps, some people see evil and keep going and know it's something wrong with them, when it begins they accept it and make excuses for their behaviour.
@@deborahsmith8925 That's hogwash. We ARE the gatekeepers of our own minds and thoughts; and we ARE the ones that make the conscious decision to follow evil or not. If we do not have control then we are not human beings. OF COURSE WE HAVE CONTROL!
“My phone broke because I dropped it” “Stop making excuses, I dropped my phone and it isn’t broken” That’s how you guys sound dismissing a bad upbringing as a means towards psychopathy. Not every child has the same durability. Not every bad childhood has the same intensity. Not an excuse, it’s an explanation.
Well him dead today this story is a sad situation like did he bring the woman to that house knowing that it smelled and look creepy like that and killed them
I've been abused mentally physically & emotionally my whole fuckin' life!!! Plus poor, date raped many times and abused almost every drug possible AND was never loved by my mother AND I DONT HURT ANYONE!! Horrible defense lawyers but it is public defenders...... This individual is SICK & TWISTED!!! ( livin with dead bodies with no heads) REEEALLY???
I'm sickened that you was forced on and treat this way this is why I have no self pity my dad was always a prick but he still does stuff for me even though I would love to beat him to a pulp for the things he says to me I hope you got justice for at least some of what happened to you and I can tell without even knowing you that ur gonna punch through any obstacles in ur way my thoughts r with u
I can't stand how the system lets this monster speak so freely. How can anyone know if he is lieing or not? That is between him and his maker. The victims families would not want to sit there and stare at him speak. He has no right to speak in my opinion. Anyone that would advise him to speak is desperate and obviously their last resort. I'm thankful he has finally died in prison. The citizens of the state should not have had to pay for this sick monster for that long in their prison system!
I agree with you that we should research serial killers. There have already been breakthroughs in Neurology in that we can now see physical differences between a normal brain and a serial killer brain. We should be working to study this phenomena further and eventually come up with a cure.
More blind leading the blind. Every man has a SPIRIT and when you leave that out of the equation you err greatly. Then there's the did the egg or the chicken come first. Did their brain rot first or did their drug use and hatred and narcissism cause their brain to rot? Simple minded to think there is a cure for hate in a medical setting. The very insignia of the medical industry IS THE GOD OF COMMERCE and up until recently the Hippocratic Oath was pledging to the god Apollo. They only recently changed it.
Being a serial killer is a decision turned into compulsion. Every serial killer has a normal brain like the rest of us only difference is that your decisions and resulting compulsion is socially acceptable. At most the normal brain gets mentally deranged because of the horrible things done and witnessed, but there is no such thing as a "serial killer" brain.
A bad childhood is no guarantee for wrongdoing or killing and doing horrible things. But it can be an explanation for going of the rails like Sowell did. People seem to mix up explanation and justification.
PLEASE STOP sharing your childhood stories about how you didn't grow up to do what he did. Every one is different. Doesn't make you any better either....🙄🙄
iirc, his siblings never corroborated his account of being physically abused by his mother. however, he did show signs that he may have been sexually abused (smearing feces on a little doll, acting out sexually inappropriate behavior with his sister and cousin) and pointed the finger at some unspecified female adult. i get the feeling hearing his testimony (sleeping on the bed when his mother came up to whip him) that his mother actually molested him. but it’s understandably too difficult/painful to express. i feel for his victims and their family, but man, what a brutal, deprived childhood…
Just saw the Documentary 'Unseen' on tubtv. This man, or should I say Devil was a real sick demon possessed puppy. My badd! I won't put him in the category w/such an innocent creature.
@@latoyarainperson For True wasn't it though. I was really saddened by the two siblings (older brother & little sister) that had to eat the peanut butter for breakfast, lunch & dinner daily. And when he said he spoke w/his Mom the day before Mothers Day and that was the last he'd heard from her. He was a strong young man.
I hope they were one of the family members that were entitled to that money even though that's not going to bring their mother back but help them with the extreme healing process ...I wanna know when he gets the chair ... Not NO DAM APPEAL!
yes it is stupid but this is what you call a strength and needs assessment. We had to do a lot of these assessments with inmate when I worked for the state.
They defense does this to try n show the jury how bad his childhood was and to try n have the jury sympathize.....idk how the fuck anyone can sympathize to this pos
Before I even watch this, I’ve never heard of anything like this where the accused is able to take the stand but not be cross examined!!! I wonder if they do that in any other state
