This isn't one of my usual rants this is an opinion column in regards to Ross Kleman the man who killed a 14 year old Edson girl on September 27th 2008. The girl Emily Stauffer was the daughter of a pastor and a girl who took to the life of christianity. She loved to walk on the wooded trails that are all over Edson. I saw a very interesting video on global where Ross was brought back to the place he ended her short life and retold us all about the events of that day. I will provide a link to the video at the bottom of this page.
Are people programmed to be evil? are we wired to kill one another or is it something that happens in our mind. After watching the video of Ross explaining what happened gave me a unique and new look on the mind of a killer and what kind of effect such a thing has on people. Ross demonstrated a multitude of emotions in the video ranging from content to sad to extremely upset and aggravated. In my 21 years of life I do think some humans are evil, wether they are born evil or life makes them evil I know their are some hardened people that love the feeling of watching a persons eyes fade of life and watch as death slowly steals the life and soul out of a persons face, people who feel good and only feel good after killing innocent people. But I don't know is Ross is one of those people. He originally came into the woods angry and frustrated at the world and he intended to kill himself with his wire and rope and thats when Emily walked into his area and all his attention, frustration and aggravation manifested into her and not the world. He approached her and gave chase as she tried to run away he grabbed her coat and as she tried to pull it off he knocked her to the ground and struggled with her at which point he pulled out a pocket knife to get her to stop fighting and struggling (His words not mine) when she tried to push his arms away standing at this point his knife was plunged into her neck and he slit her throat and she fell to the ground. Ross at this point snapped back into reality and fear took over (Again his words) he ran away to hide and he couldn't believe what he had done according to him. Emily was alive when found by a passerby and still alive when rescue workers got her to the hospital but sadly she died of blood loss.
A story like this usually doesn't effect me and I usually maintain my cold demeanor and look at it logically, people die, people must die and most people don't get to choose how they die so why feel bad for it. Yet this video gave me a closer look at what happened and insight as to what kind of man Ross Kleman is. I honestly do believe that he would have killed himself that day and Emily would still be alive if she had not come across Ross that day. Ross isn't a real murder in my mind, he was sick, confused and was unstable but a murder I don't think is what I would call him. However he has committed this inhumane act and on such an innocent soul and sick or not murderer or not it wont bring Emily back or make her parents feel any better and Ross will deserve his sentence of life in jail not able to be out on parole until he is 65. He is 54 as of now. Maybe in the future there will be some type of organization or preventative program for people like Ross that when they feel such a way that this behavior can be predicted and the people feeling this way can get immediate help while being restrained until doctors can figure out what goes wrong in our brains to make us killers.
I do know one thing, humans have always been violent, we have always killed one another in war and in civilian life. Humans wont stop killing each other, its in our nature its in our blood. Until we can control our basic savage instinct we will continue to kill and murder. Even though we are capable of such beautiful things such as works of art music literature and science it means nothing if we cant become a peaceful race. I am proud to call myself Canadian, but i know that I am a citizen of earth and would rather all countries stop drawing imaginary lines in the dirt and just become a global community, oh but I will stop here. This is a hint on my next blog post subject.
http://www.globaltvedmonton.com/video+Kleman+interrogation/3530451/story.html
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