A Shrink in the Clink by Tim Watson-Munro

Author:Tim Watson-Munro
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Published: 2018-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

‘A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.’

– Coco Chanel

Although the majority of people in custody are males, it would be naive to assume that dark, psychopathic crime is the sole province of men.

Numerous studies attest to the reality that men far and away exceed women when it comes to homicide. Although females comprise approximately 50 percent of the population in any community, they account for less than 20 percent when it comes to killing others. For some these may be a one-off event. In comparison so-called black widow killers, if given the opportunity, kill men in a ruthless and repeated manner. The fact that women could behave in this manner to many seems counterintuitive and, consequently, they hold a special fascination for crime aficionados.

I have assessed many deeply troubled women who have been charged and convicted of crimes involving the murder of their children and/or killing their partners.

An analysis of the literature suggests that most black widows are driven by greed. They are bad and as the planning and lack of remorse in their cases reflects, they are best described as psychopaths.

I suspect that with some there is a degree of sexual arousal associated with their offending behaviour. There again appears to be a strong fusion between high libido, the need for power and the release of hatred and tension through killing in a brutal manner. Many offenders go to great lengths to hide their crimes, which suggests premeditation, planning and the fact that they are well oriented in time, place and person. In short they are not mad.

In recent years there was the case of Robyn Lindholm, invariably described in the press as a femme fatale and a black widow, who manipulated men to do her bidding, including at least one murder.

I have assessed Robyn and she maintains her innocence. Sadly for her, the jury disagreed and in late 2015 convicted her of murder. The victim was her former partner. In 2006, she was charged with the murder of another former partner and further investigations are occurring concerning the disappearance of another, a colleague and stripper, in 1995. At one point she had dated another former client of mine, the late ‘Black Prince’, Alphonse Gangitano.

The facts in the case were horrendous. The deceased was ambushed at his apartment and then bashed by Lindholm’s lover and an accomplice. The execution was brutal. Bashed with a baseball bat, stabbed and choked, the end result was never in doubt. The corpse was then placed in the boot of a car and taken to a remote rural setting. Lindholm observed the process, including the disposal of the cadaver by wedging it between boulders and then covering the makeshift grave with foliage and rocks.

The sexual excitement for her was too much to contain. Before driving to meet up with the accomplice for celebratory drinks at a local hotel, she and her lover enjoyed heightened carnal passion in the adjacent bushes. During the trial, it was claimed that prior to seducing the offender, Lindholm had approached a number of former lovers to do the job.

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