PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Dracula, Antipsychotic, Paranoid Personality Disorder
Forensic Psychology: Eddie Routh case file
1) I geeral, hat as Eddie’s hoe life like as a hild?
Strict parents; lived with druggie aunt and had druggie family members;
2) What is Eddie’s ilitar eperiee? Iraq in 2007 to watch prisoners; Haiti in 2010 to help after earth
quake.
a. What happened in Haiti in 2010? Picked up dead bodies off beach
3) When Eddie finished serving in the military, he was described as a changed person. What were some
changes to his behavior? Drinking, panic attacks, suicidal thoughts, paranoid, maic behavior,
nightmare.
a. What was his substance use like? Drinking and then would get angry
b. What kid of odd thoughts did Eddie hae? Obsessed with having a tapeworm; thought he was a
werewolf and dracula
4) What type of treatment did he receive as a result of these psychological changes? Treatement in
Dallas with medications. Involuntarily committed for suicidal thoughts. Antipsychotic medications
prescribed.
a. Prior to the murder, Eddie was hospitalized – when was that (how soon before the murders?) and
what type of treatment was it? mid January 2013 – holding knife to protect fiancée from
government
5) Was there any instability in his behaviors on the day of the shooting? Proposed to gf. Could’t arry
reasonable conversation.
6) How did Chris Kyle describe Eddie on the day of the murders? straight up uts
7) What type of conversation did Eddie have with his sister immediately after the murders? Incoherent
conversation and ried to show them the murder weapon
8) When the police approached Eddie in his car immediately after the murders – what happened? High
speed car chase
9) What did Eddie tell police at the station after he was arrested? Ke that he as rog; I ko if I
did’t take his soul, he as goig to take ie et
10) How did the psychiatric evaluation from the defense expert differ from the prosecution expert?
Defense – schizophrenia, psychosis → thought coworkers were cannibals and neighbor was in mafia.
Prosecturion – paranoid personality disorder; psychosis due to alcohol and drugs; faking
schizophrenia
11) Aordig to the defese pshiatrist, hat ere Eddie’s thoughts aout Chris Kle ad Chad
Littlefield prior to the shootings? Thought Littlefield was stalking him and in danger;
12) According to the defense psychiatrist, what did Routh think after he shot Chris and Chad? He knew it
as’t goig to look good
13) What did the proseutio epert Araula sa aout Routh’s sait at the tie of the rie? Not
insane at the time of the murder but was intoxicated.
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