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Podcast: Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers
Episode: Trauma, Fear, and Accountability: Shavaun Scott on the Psychology of ‘The Perfect Neighbor’ Killer-WEEK IN REVIEW
Description: When Ajike Owens was killed through a closed door, her four children lost their mother — and a nation faced the consequences of unchecked paranoia.
In this exclusive episode, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels to dissect the mental chain reaction behind that fatal moment.
Scott explores how chronic resentment, fear scripting, and entitlement converge in what she calls “justified aggression”—the mind’s way of excusing harm under the guise of self-protection. She breaks down how fear, when reinforced over years, becomes not a response but an identity.
The discussion turns towa...