Do you believe that everyone is essentially a good person? Do you believe that there is good that can be found in anyone? You might believe that even if you’ve seen a person at their worst, there is still some area inside them that can lead one to redemption, even the most wicked.
Do You Only See the Best in Others?
Believe it or not, I was a person just like that, and you either may have been like that or still are a believer in the basic goodness of man. I did not awaken to the idea that some men and women are basically evil, and they will always be evil, and now I think that predatory psychopaths if they are born that way, will always be predatory psychopaths.
You may be one of the witnesses to an incredible transformation of a predatory psychopath who has changed his or her life, seen the error of his or her ways, turned their life around, or even completely transformed in an instant come-to-Jesus’ moment. You may think that you are blessed to experience such a metamorphosis.
If you stick around long enough, you will find that everything you believed about the predatory psychopath and his or her transformation is revealed as a complete lie, expertly spun to accomplish his or her evil ends. Only until you have sufficiently played your part, and the psycho no longer needs you or what resources you could supply, will you see that you were conned by the cleverest of predators.
These psychopaths will stop at nothing to achieve their desired results, including feigning love, loyalty, admiration, and repentance, and believe this; nothing is sacred to the psychopath, though he or she knows how to play the part very well if need be.
Prison Ministry
You can watch this play out in the life of a psychopath, especially one who has done prison time periodically, by observing the prison ministry. Prison ministries are sponsored by churches in the community. These groups of volunteers are allowed access to a meeting space and prisoners are notified of the time and date and allowed to opt-in to hear what the religious volunteers have to say.
A predatory psychopath opts into these religious meetings in succession, until he or she finds one with an adequate mark, someone whom he or she can utterly exploit for his or her needs. The psychopath could be looking for any need that he or she believes is necessary. It could be someone who can accept his or her phone calls and will also dial in a third-party number on a conference call so that he or she can still conduct their confidence games from inside the prison.
They exp[loit religious volunteers to smuggle stamps, medications, or other items into the religious prison meeting, which is a felony committed by the religious volunteer.
There are plenty of arrest records documenting the religious volunteers who were conned into engaging in dirty deeds, anything from third-party phone calls and minor smuggling of goods to contacting others whom the psychopath may be restrained from, conducting surveillance, or performing sex acts with the psychopath or for the psychopath outside on the behalf of a predatory psychopath who faked his or her salvation just to exploit another victim. It’s all there in black and white and signed by a court judge.
Then there are the volunteers who they develop a relationship with, based on their turning their life around. They may fall in love, get volunteers to put money on their books, bring or send books to them which they convert to prison cash, And so much more.
Another religious prison con is to convince someone to act on their behalf, so they can appeal to the sentence review board for early release. A psychopath can greatly increase his or her chances of getting out early if they can obtain testimonies of those who have witnessed his repentance and transformation. Additionally, they will also need a release address and someone to take responsibility for their early release. This is fairly easy to accomplish by proposing marriage to one of the religious volunteers, which would take place soon, if not on the day, of his or her release>
A dream comes true, you might think, until the catastrophic truth is revealed, and you realize this would be your worst nightmare.
This is not to say that a predatory psychopath cannot change. Every once in a while, one does change for good, just as rare as child molesters, sexual predators, and womanizers, including criminals and addicts of all kinds have been known to experience miraculous transformations that withstand the test of time. But these stories are rare indeed, about one out of one thousand transformations will stick and it will take an enormous will and daily struggle to make it so.
Is your imprisoned psychopath the one-in-a-thousand? Probably not. Be wary, and do not get drawn into the psychopath’s drama, which could result in your imprisonment for being an accessory to other crimes yet to be committed using you and your resources.