I've been stupid and I've been desperate but I don't think I've ever stooped as low as the makers of one TV show which shall remain nameless (simply because I can't remember what it's called). The storyline is about a serial killer that suffers OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and whether our hero's can catch him before he kills again.
Well of course they bloody can because it's going to take the poor bastard forever leaving the crime scene! He's going to have to check 1000 times to make sure his victim is really dead, and 1000 times to make sure his hands are clean after all that blood (unless he killed them with gas or something - in which case he's going to have to check 1000 times that he's turned the gas off). Even after he's left the building he'll probably have to go back and check that he really did get rid of that knife and didn't leave it lying on the table, or that in the struggle his victim didn't get any DNA evidence under their fingernails etc. And of course, the amount of times he has to return to the crime scene to ensure things are how they should be, is going to increase the likelihood that someone sees him; repeatedly. The frequency with which he's spied at the crime scene will undoubtedly enable any witness to give a good description to the FBI (or whoever it was that was on his trail).
I did briefly consider that he might be a "pure O" and not suffer compulsions, but then if he's a serial killer is there a need to state that he suffers obsessions? Wouldn't it be pretty obvious that obsession is a central feature of serial killing otherwise the perpetrator would simply pass over the thought/impulse to kill and not consider it again; like the rest of us do.
If in the event that he was a pure O, then obsessions with other things would probably preclude his penchant for killing as it's not usually in the top 10 list of must have obsessions.
Go figure.
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