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Domestic Mass Casualty Perpetrators: The Association With Unmedicated and Untreated Psychiatric Illness

Twenty-eight of 35 cases in which the assailant survived had a psychiatric diagnosis-18 with schizophrenia, 3 with bipolar I disorders, 2 with delusional disorders, persecutory type, 2 with personality disorders (1 paranoid and 1 borderline), 2 with substance-related disorders without other psychiatric diagnoses, and 1 with posttraumatic stress disorder. Four had no psychiatric diagnosis, and in 3, we did not have enough information to make a diagnosis.Of 15 of 20 cases in which the assailant died, 8 had schizophrenia.

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ICYMI – Ron Presba Murder: How Did He Die? Who Killed Him?

At the age of 54, Ronald “Ron” Roy Presba had not only created a good life for himself and his family in Garden Valley, California, but he was also a well-liked, hard-working local… It was June 25, 2008, when the authorities responded to a blaze near the Chili Bar Canyon area of Highway 193, just to find Ron’s charred remains … although it initially seemed like his passing was the result of a freak accident, the blood near the scene told a different story. … the fact that Ron’s skull was shattered made the detectives speculate his crash into the deep ravine was intentional.

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