The Professor and the Prostitute by Linda Wolfe

Author:Linda Wolfe
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781497637047
Publisher: Open Road Media

A few days after the shooting, the surviving members of the Keeler family hired for David a well-known, highly respected criminal lawyer named Doug Mulder. Under Texas law, youthful offenders—those under fifteen—could not at the time be charged and sentenced as adults. David’s crime of patricide and matricide was considered a civil offense—delinquency—rather than a criminal one. But he could, if a judge so willed, be jailed for that delinquency in a juvenile detention center until he reached the age of eighteen. The family felt David would be better served by getting psychiatric treatment and consequently engaged the silver-tongued Mulder.

In August, at a hearing to determine what to do with David, Mulder produced a team of mental health experts who testified that intense criticism by his parents ever since he was a child had caused David to repress his emotions, and that this repression—rather like a fire in a coal mine that inevitably must seek the airshaft—had finally erupted into the violent rage that made the boy shoot to kill. He needed to be taught how to express his feelings, the experts felt, and how to do so constructively. The hearing was televised, and the judge sent David to a private psychiatric hospital, Timberlawn.

The Reverend Cook, when I spoke with him, several months after David had been sent to Timberlawn, said he was happy for the boy, although, like many people, he wasn’t sure that psychiatric treatment could remake a personality. He also said that the members of the congregation had learned the wrong lesson from what had happened to the Keelers. “There is a mindset here that we’re dealing with the will of God, that God caused all this to happen because in some way He was dissatisfied with us,” the minister told me. “People here say, ‘In the good old days, when everyone believed, you didn’t have things like this.’ Well, you did. What you didn’t have then were guns, all those loaded guns. Those loaded guns in our homes are killing more of us than bad guys ever could. But people around here don’t care.”

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