Lunch!

I don't have the best relationship with my mother to say the least but I can't even imagine doing something so heinous with a dumbbell and a knife... let alone if she was so supportive she was cooking me a meal before going to prison... extremely disturbing and sad

What he did to his mother( poor lady) he will get beyond hell

His loving mother taught him no responsibility and to become the greedy a--hole that he was that cost her her own life.

People who hate themselves often resent those who love them the most

Mothers are murdered more than anyone.

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Yeah, this loser seems to have just done it totally to make his escape attempt more likely to succeed. She was the one who raised the money for bailing him out. Goddamn.

I wasn't particularly fond if my mom but it's unimaginable to ever think of doing anything like what this guy did. Today, I think a lot of people are on the verge of losing everything and what happened here will become less uncommon because of desperation. It's horrible and I wish more seniors would get their lives in better order for their own protection. She had a lot of house to take care of.

His loving mother taught him no responsibility and to become the greedy a--hole that he was.

If his mother was evil and abusive to him, I could understand his hatred. But she was good. Too good. He himself said so. So HE was the evil one. He is a sociopath. That's why he killed her.

I'm dying at 5:42 on the morning😂😂😂😂

I'm sure you are aware of the Alex Murdaugh case. Talk about a lawyer going off the rails!

What a sicko I just wonder if his brother or parents noticed he had real problems.

When my ex husband was declaring bankruptcy, he used an attorney/friend of his who was addicted to cocaine and frequently came to court disheveled and unprepared. One his court date, the attorney was late to court. When my ex asked the judge to wait a few more minutes, the judge said “who is your attorney??” As soon as he said the name, the judge twisted his face and answered “No.”

The men produced guns, but committed murder with a dumbbell and knife.

I’m about to go to Law School. Any advice?

"on the 3rd try" is the key here

I can only imagine his level of narcissism

" it is not clear what the Jury did for THE OTHER 89 Minutes!

​@@christ3187 Sounds like a psychopath to me, additionally.

@@KaarinaKimdaly agree

This is such a horribly tragic case. Although his children probably got a much better deal with his leaving, though.

Had to raise mtself. Look at what my name is

I hope to watch that episode one day. I was just wondering what his brother thinks about all of this.

​@@Meela234 It's very telling and worth watching. Sometimes, those shows bore me, but the Richard Merritt case did not disappoint.

If onle they could see the future,I'm sure that military dad of his would have drowned his eveel behind back in his younger years. He the deveel's first son

just watched that episode too his brother wants nothing to do with him after sending him weird manipulative letters from prison

No way,, the Doc's superhero persona should be ShirtMan,, he's got a bottomless closet full of excellent shirts...

Both of you are right!

@@mrs.reluctant4095 Dr. Todd Grande the ShirtMan Speculator

OR Dr. Todd the ShirtMan Speculator Grande

I suspect the guy was a total A hole and got the wife because of his status.

A narcissist is never happy with what they've got.

And a narcissist always sucks at long-term thinking.

Yes! And in other pics he looks like Marv The Wet Bandit

@@JugglingG 😂💯

His son does too.

May not apply in this case, but mothers do not always love their children. Unfortunately, there are cases in the news every day that prove that fact.

@@ellen5165 . I'm well aware that some mothers don't! What's more important is most mothers do love their children without question!

@@citacita7889 Yes. You are correct, but two things can be true at one time. People fall in love, get married, and/or have children for numerous reasons. Many times people mistake lust (i.e., Greek word έρωτας, meaning love, eros, cupid) et al. for love. A parent can also love a child to death "in the name of love" by simply giving in to all of his or her demands for numerous reasons unrelated to love (e.g., single, divorced, working, career, or widowed parent being much too busy at work or with romance to spend quality play time [See the foundation of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Mildren Parten's Stages of Play-Learning Model], guilt, trying to balance out rejection or a lack of attention from a physically absent and/or an absent-minded parent, etc.).

There is no degrees of orphanage. You have a living parent. You are not an orphan.

@@danae-rain3019 Depends which country you are living in. I am from Germany, we are having the term, when you are a kid and one parent died, you even receive then money from the government for being half orphan

​@@nutellabrot9047 TIL I am a half-orphan.

Do you know where your relative is now?

@qd63991 I like how the first thing you say is "have you done a episode on my classmate......" As if anyone cares that a murderer that was caught was your classmate, like that is the main thing, and the murder case is just "ahh wudever, but hey who was that serial killer's classmate tho????" I bet a lot of people have told you that you are a narcissist eh?

​@@raymaharaj4502Well his comment has twenty likes so far; yours has only a self-like. 😂

Well I've said it a million times before...........You only get Rich through Thieving!!

Rundbaum, narcissistic psychopaths are like that. Sadly for others, the vast majority of us , who are capable of empathy.

Not sure how she could have saw that coming. The dude was just an ass.

@Nieceyweesey. Hey hey hey just take care of your kid okay! Nobody said anything against loving your kid! wtf?!?!?!

I was surprised Dr G didn't capitalise on that one . 😂

John Kennedy Jr. had to try 3 times.

Many

​@usmy first thought er-tm9qb2jk4o

@traybern That also is a good one.

Only to end up with a longer sentence. Killing your own Mother is Taboo, so prisoners will frown on that.

His loving mother taught him no responsibility and to become the greedy a--hole that he was that cost her her own life.

@@stfuplsok I'm wondering about the time that he was living with his brother as a teenager ,and not his parents, due to no high school courses in Saudi Arabia. A great deal of tuff love happens during that time. Lots of correction that he might have missed?

@@hopeausbyn1734 then what about his brother?

@@stfuplsok My assertion is, his parents, were not in the home actively raising their child during his teenage years. These are years of a considerable amount of correction for most teenagers. 🚩

I think those are quite likely scenarios. If individuals do not have personal insight into their internal strengths and weaknesses and their external opportunities and threats, they will be ill-prepared to become spouses and/or parents whose relationships are aligned in mutually shared directional strategies (i.e., values>mission>vision) for themselves and/or their families. So, whether it is at the personal or professional level, in the chain of top-down command, control, and custody and bottom-up feedback, strong interpersonal links must be forged early in the process of communications, cooperation, collaboration, coordination, correction, commitment, and compromise through play-learning (See Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Mildred Parten's Stages of Play). In the stream of my consciousness of yesteryear, all of this is what I used to call common sense in thought, word, and deed. As the results of this case seem to indicate, a parent who does not do the hard work up-front to civilize his or her children during early childhood cognitive-emotional development from birth on in order to make them good citizens in society later, should not be surprised when their children, whose heart-minds they actually do not know, ultimately turn on them as adults (Matthew 7:21-23). RIP Shirley.

You do realize that there are cases in which intruders have killed people don’t you? The Sam Sheppard case being one such example.

@@momof1576 Of course there are "mom" but you do realize they're RARE and wastes everyone's time investigating. It's like saying you got kidnapped by 👾 🤖👽.

Yes, but they don't kill someone and leave a witness who can identify them....@@momof1576

While she making a meal for him 💔

@@kristinaaslanyan5150 😑💔

Hahaha the procratinator's New Year... Happy New Year ❤🎉😂

😂😂😂 Procrastinator New Year.

How is no one talking about “the Feast of the Ass”

@@SpicyMango7 I have no idea!

I would love to hear Dr. Grandes take on it. He’s been found competent so he can’t hide from these charges anymore. His wife is a peace of work too. She’s living it up with stolen money

@@elizabethhamm5320 totally agree, he should analyze the whole thing and give his opinion on whether or not she was involved!

I noticed that she always copied other people's mannerisms how they dress how they walked she was a weirdo

Who are you talking about? What woman? Richards mother?

It is my opinion, that in a case of external, not an internal, locus of control, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), such as a household economic hardship and instability, may lead to lack of attachment, lack of a strong sense of self, and increased psychological mirroring in order to fit in to a series of social milieux.

@@sparkplugpeggy4910 It is not uncommon to pick up on other people's mannerisms in psychological mirroring. It is done in sales all of the time. There is nothing odd about it. Trying to fit into a new school's cliques as a teenager, if you are unsure of yourself, is normal. Personality, however, is fixed by the time a child enters first or second grade.

As a former military brat, I can understand where she's coming from. Every new school has it's own personality and you have to do what you have to do to make friends and fit in. Some kids do it better than others but it's always a challenge.

Hi Dr. Grande. Richard was a complete psychosocionarc, just saying, it certainly was obvious by his actions. I hope he rots in hell, & Prison is too light of sentence for an uncaring creep like him. Thanks for another interesting video, peace to you & Mrs. G, love yall 👦 guys & 🪆 dolls , Janine Smiley☕️🍩☕️🍩☕️🎂💞

I would not recommend horror stories to children, no matter how well-delivered. I believe that Dr. Grande's videos should be age-appropriate for an adults-only audience of viewers.

MAGA

I bet you’re a terrific writer! If not, you should flex that muscle - you definitely have talent.

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​@@nanettevantriesteharder2469it's a metaphor !!

It boils down to biology in the interplay between sex hormones (i.e., androgens, estrogens, and progestogens). Androgens are steroid hormones, such as testosterone, which are synthesized in the testes, ovaries, and adrenal glands that are responsible for the sex drive in both males and females in the development, differentiation, and maintenance of male primary-secondary male characteristics. Estrogens are steroid hormones that are responsible for the need to nurture in the female reproductive system and secondary sexual characteristics, although they have important physiological roles in males. Estrogens are synthesized in all vertebrates and some insects. So, while estrogen levels circulate at lower levels than androgens, estrogen levels are higher in women than in men. Progestogens are steroid hormones responsible for maintaining pregnancy and are present at other phases of the estrous and menstrual cycles. Thus, cognitive-emotional development is an interrelated process. It may be that criminal sociopaths prey on the feelings of women with high estrogen levels who were raised in households headed by psychopathic fathers and co-dependent mothers.

@@M-qw9ru While it is true that Oxford Languages defines criminality as "behavior that is contrary to or forbidden by criminal law," the precursors to criminality are wrong words and evil thoughts. His wife/girlfriend may intuitively have already known that there was something "off" about him.

​@@M-qw9ru Restoring my faith that emotionally intelligent women aren't rare.

One of the saddest true stories ever told.