Compulsive lying includes lying about things that would result in negative outcomes. Hell, false confessions are sometimes done for attention.
One person who greatly exaggerated their crimes was Henry Lee Lucas.
Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 – March 12, 2001), also known as The Confession Killer, was an American convicted murderer. Lucas was convicted of murdering his mother in 1960 and two others in 1983. He rose to infamy as a claimed serial killer while incarcerated for these crimes when he falsely confessed to approximately 600 other murders to Texas Rangers and other law enforcement officials.
An investigation by the Dallas Times-Herald showed that it was impossible for Lucas to have committed many of the murders he confessed to. While the Rangers defended their work, a follow-up investigation by the Attorney General of Texas concluded Lucas was a fabulist who had falsely confessed.
That’s a good point. I didn’t think of that. I guess for a lot of serial killers they don’t have anything better to do. They’re in prison forever and bored out of their minds all day and all they can do is confess to random crimes for media attention and for more notoriety in prison.
Compulsive lying includes lying about things that would result in negative outcomes. Hell, false confessions are sometimes done for attention.
One person who greatly exaggerated their crimes was Henry Lee Lucas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas
That’s a good point. I didn’t think of that. I guess for a lot of serial killers they don’t have anything better to do. They’re in prison forever and bored out of their minds all day and all they can do is confess to random crimes for media attention and for more notoriety in prison.