BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND | I researched and wrote this episode, about two people who had no reason to meet. But one October night in 1989 would change all that. Sadly for Edward Baldock’s family, he wouldn’t make it home alive…
What is it that drives human beings to engage in particular behaviours? We often look to aspects of our own individual personalities as a contributing factor in how we respond to, and interact with, the world around us.
The study of personality disorders and how these influence human behaviour, has become a popular topic of discussion in recent years. It was this diagnosis which was used to explain a crime so horrific, so gruesome, and so unbelievable, that it could’ve leapt straight from the pages of a Hollywood script.
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