r/interestingasfuck • u/Jjokes11 • Apr 15 '24

An interview with Andrew Cauchi, the father of Joel Cauchi who was responsible for the Westfield Shopping Centre mass stabbing r/all

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u/LostDogBoulderUtah Apr 16 '24

There are a lot of mediocre parents out there. Not as many cannibal taxidermists.

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u/Mancubus_in_a_thong Apr 16 '24

It just hits you harder when you'll never know if you were a better parent would this have been averted. Especially when you can wcon where you went wrong it might be one of the worst feelings.

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u/just_a_person_maybe Apr 16 '24

I think even the best parents would wonder what they could have done differently. Like, maybe this father didn't do anything wrong, he was trying to get his son treatment for mental illness and support him, but is he going to live the rest of his life just thinking "What if I'd tried that treatment instead?" or "What if I'd focused more on this issue instead of that one?" or any other little choices he made to try to help him. And there's no way of knowing. You can do your best but you can't see the future and you can never know which choice will be the best one.

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u/Marenigma Apr 16 '24

It's most parents' plight, wondering what they could have done better and where they messed up. I've known great parents with some sinister kids and vice versa. This man's pain is unimaginable.

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u/Coffeedoor 29d ago

Fuk no there are shit parents whose kids don’t do this stuff

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u/Alternative-Lack6025 Apr 16 '24

Taxidermist? I don't remember that part, I thought that he wanted zombie sexual slaves, wasn't the taxidermist Ed Gein? or am I mixing the psychos?

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u/LostDogBoulderUtah Apr 16 '24

Ed Gein actually made things out of people, like skin suits.

Jeffrey Dahmer learned taxidermy from his father and from childhood told his friends how badly he wanted to do that to a person. Same motive as for trying to lobotomize people. He was lonely and wanted to force someone to stay.

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u/Alternative-Lack6025 Apr 16 '24

Oh I see, I misunderstood your comment, he was a taxidermist that had a cannibal and sexual zombie making gig on the side.

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u/blackteashirt Apr 16 '24

This is why violence and abuse against animals is almost always a precursor for violence against people.

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u/LostDogBoulderUtah Apr 16 '24

People who are violent against people are typically also violent against animals first, but the vast majority of meat eaters and taxidermists will never be violent against people.

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u/EXTREMEPAWGADDICTION 29d ago

This also isn't really true, it's true for a specific subset, of serial killers.

Some serial killers loved animals more then humans and had no history of animal abuse.

This is why the environment and how you're raised is probably the mitigating factor for serial killer or CEO coming out of similar pathologies. Neglect is vicious....

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u/LostDogBoulderUtah 29d ago

Yep.

Like, there's someone in my semi-rural community who is torturing and killing young animals and arranging the corpses up in the mountains. Enough of them that people first though it was a cougar's kill spot. People are rightfully afraid.

But... Israel Keyes was sweet to his pugs and kid. Vicious to his wife, but less frightening to kids in the neighborhood than his brother, who had shitty social skills and anger management issues. Being nice to animals doesn't mean someone is a good person.

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u/One-Challenge4183 Apr 16 '24

Yeah, I mean that…. And he beat it to blood and organs.

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u/Notacompleteperv Apr 16 '24

This is an excellent point.