True Crime Journal
On August 4, 1967, 15-year-old James Gordon Wolcott grabbed a .22 long-barrel rifle and killed his father, mom, and 17-year-old sister in chilly blood.
When requested what drove him to tug the set off, Wolcott informed the investigators he hated his household. {The teenager} claimed he was bored with his mom’s loud chewing, his sister’s “unhealthy accent,” and his father’s disapproval of Wolcott’s anti-war views. The 15-year-old felt as if his household was “conniving in opposition to him to drive him out of his thoughts.”
On the finish of the six-month trial, the jury acquitted Wolcott by purpose of madness. He was admitted into Rusk State Hospital on February 2, 1968, the place he spent six years.
Two years after his launch from the hospital, Wolcott legally modified his identify and vanished.
Practically 40 years later, Wolcott resurfaced as an award-winning professor of psychology!
In 1976, after altering his identify to James St. James, {the teenager} went on to earn a Ph.D. in psychology and joined the Millikin College in Decatur, Illinois.
Described as an “older hippie” by his colleagues, St. James has now been educating at Millikin for over 30 years and received the school’s Instructing Excellence and Management Award in 1997. Quickly after, Dr. St. James was supplied the place of chairman on the division of behavioral sciences.
After studying in regards to the professor’s darkish previous, native officers, together with the mayor of Decatur, had been calling for his removing. Nonetheless, the college stood by St. James’ aspect and refused to let him go.
To at the present time, Dr. James St. James stays the chair of Millikin’s Behavioral Science Division, and his experimental psychology courses proceed to obtain optimistic reactions on social media.
