anatomicdeadspace:

Sheila LaBarre was a multiple murderer who killed two of her boyfriends by beating them to death, before scattering their remains across her New Hampshire farm. While LaBarre admitted to the murders she pled not guilty by reason of insanity. The defences argument was that LaBarre had a psychotic obsession with pedophiles, and that she was operating under the delusion that every man she met was a pedophile, which was why she murdered her two boyfriends. The prosecution, however, argued that she was manipulative, cruel and vindictive, and completely sane.

After a psychological assessment, which found that LaBarre did indeed have a preoccupation and obsession with pedophilia, along with serious anger issues and a high likelihood of a personality disorder, the psychiatrist could not link a mental illness to the cause of her crime. In the end she was determined to be sane, and was given two life sentences in 2008