Both factors maxed. Articulate, self-narrativizing, and entirely documented in his own words across decades of recorded interviews. Convicted and deceased: the safest possible teaching case, and the practical ceiling of the instrument. Same Factor 1 machinery you will recognise in figures the world adores. The only difference is what he did with it.

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Recorded prison interviews (multiple, 1980s)

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Armchair pattern observation. Not a clinical diagnosis.

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