Interview With An Experienced Killer of Priests
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 9:03PM Q: Thank you so much for agreeing to speak to me again. If you don't mind, I'm going to jump right into it, I'm told we don't have a lot of time today.
A: That's perfectly fine, please, go ahead. I've been told the same. I'm happy to oblige.
Q: What would you say is the most important thing to consider when it comes to the process of killing a person?
A: That would have to be knowing their routine. Absolutely. "Planning" as a subheading, would cover that I guess, if you're looking for a quick answer. Sorry, how long is this going to be?
Q: Pretty sizeable I guess. I'm hoping my editor ups the word count.
A: Well good for you.
Q: Thanks, I'm moving up over there. So, knowing a routine. Like, the day to day routine?
A: Yes, that's the most important thing to have down. A lot of people don't understand, they look for a schedule you know, of hard and fast times, of definite numbers they can see on a clock. On television, you always see people saying things like "Oh, it's 10 am, time for my coffee," or something. It doesn't really work that way though. A routine is a set of actions a person will perform, but rarely will it always happen at the same time or in the same place every day.
Q: Right, of course. People aren't robots, right?
A: Well, yet anyway. (Laughs) If they were I probably wouldn't be in this much trouble right?
Q: (Laughs)
A: Anyway. That's what oppourtunity is. People speak of oppourtunity like it's this mystical, fate driven apparatus, some interesection of coincidence and convenience.
Q: I take it you're not a big believer in luck then?
A: Oh, I've been lucky, luckier than hell most of the time. Luck isn't oppourtunity, oppourtunity is an overlapping of two paths, and the key to being successful is reading the situation so your path can overlap with theirs when you want it to. There's no luck in oppourtunity, only foresight. Good planning. What you need to do is understand the routine, what's going to happen, the times it could happen, and where. Then you simply go to that place.
Q: So every murder you're saying, sucessful or not is a result of good or bad planning?
A: Well that's a simple way of looking at it. I'd say that yes, most successful killings are a result of good planning, but at the same time they can be successful because of circumstance, unseen actions, incompetence of either a victim or an investigator...
Q: I notice you mention the investigator there. I know most people shy away from this sort of thing...
A: I don't think you'd be "moving on up over there" if you shyed away from things (Laughs)
Q: (Laughs) Exactly. So you mention the notion of success or failure in the context of investigators, police. Would you consider a successful murder is one that you aren't punished for?
A: (Laughs) You're always punished for them!
Q: (Inaudible)...sense of a criminal justice system...(inaudible)...personal morality notwithstanding.
A: No, I mean, I think it's simple to get caught up in that definition, but really that's another benchmark. When you decide to kill a person, you don't decide whether or not to break the law. I mean, you do before or after, in the sense that you acknowledge it and disregard it, but your decision isn't to violate a line on a page, it's to end someone's life, and those are very different decisions. No one ever goes "I'm going to break the law, I should kill someone." It's always the other way around. I know that's a generalization, but that's true. A lot of decisions come before and after you decide, but that's the one that matters.
Q: I want to come back to this notion of oppourtunity.
A: I think there's not much more to say than what I already have. In terms of importance I'd say planning, making that oppourtunity is the important part. Of course there's the will to actually do it, but you know, that's sort of obvious. You don't need me to tell you that. That's not a part of a the action though, that's a part of the person.
Q: Being that person isn't the most important part?
A: Didn't your mother always tell you that you could be anything you wanted to be?
Q: Fantastic. I think I have all I need, I mean this with the last session. Can we do just a couple rapid fire questions?
A: Mmmm?
Q: We do this sidebar thing, quick questions, kind of like a survey format. It runs along with the article or on the page next to it.
A: Oh yeah, of course.
Q: Biggest fear?
A: Dying alone. Drowning. Drowning alone I guess.
Q: Favourite food?
A: Boerwars sausage. Good, authentic, proper boerwars.
Q: Favourite place to visit?
A: Outside (Laughs)
Q: (Laughs) When you're out of here we mean.
A: I know, I know. Lisbon. I knew a girl in Lisbon.
Q: Favourite singer?
A: Cat Stevens.
Q: Biggest regret?
A: Not applicable.
Q: Anything you'd like end with, a parting line for our readers?
A: Yeah. Put "It's easier than you think." Use that as the quote you run in the middle of the article, when you do it in a different colour.
Q: That's called a 'pull quote.' That's not up to me, but I'll make a note. I think that would be nice.
A: I'll make sure to watch out for it when it's published.
Q: Thank you so much for speaking with me today.
A: Come back whenever you'd like. I'll be here.
Reader Comments (1)
i totally don't even remember having this conversation.