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we believe the unsub is attempting to recreate a woman he once loved.
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Like a girlfriend?
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Or a wife, a mother. Someone who left or died suddenly.
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This projection of the loved one
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coupled with his need to preserve the victims through embalming
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is similar to the psychopathology of serial murderer Ed Gein.
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Gein had an oedipal complex
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which developed in the years he nursed his paralyzed mother
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back from a stroke.
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After she died, his obsession compelled him
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to dig up corpses of women who resembled his mother.
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So persistent was his desire to resurrect his dead mother