...of being stalked! Imagine the chem high the serial killer is getting, not only 'out smarting', but being pursued by law enforcement. Not to mention the fame of media coverage. Screaming, terror, squirming, fleeing, pleading, bleeding, 'P'ower= a megaton payload to the brain.
What could be more thrilling, bagging a Sabre Tooth Tiger or Mastadon?
"Just the eatin' it part afterwards!"
Whoever said brain research should be mandatory on these extreme specimens, I agree 150%.
Observation: children who are put through too much 'fight or flight' trauma seem to share the 'brain damage' <?> described above.
And what about those pesky lesions to the frontal lobes?
"Excuse me, if you torture, rape, murder & mutillate...we can study you however we damn well please. It's not like you won't be numb for our probes."
