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</strong></em></p><p ><em><strong>David Pedersen did not go on a killing spree because his mother appeared to be a multiple, it can be "safely assumed" that the mothers of most murderers aren't multiples ... it's just not heard of. It was known that his father was a child molester which is probably part of his conversation on wanting to kill his father. His record shows that he began with robbery because he did not have a way to take girls out on dates. He stated he learned to be an animal in juvenile facilities. Killing is always wrong whether or not the person is a multiple, because every multiple "system" has to be accountable for the whole. There are questions as to the sanity of prisons and insane asylums as being rehabilitative or cost effective, but we can hope like most that they are most often trying to improve. ~Ann Garvey</strong></em></p><p > </p><p >“Joey”Pedersen walked to his mother’s apartment in Salem on May 24 last year. The sky, he recalls, was blue and white, vast and strange. He wore new slacks and a collared shirt. A cheap red tie bothered his neck, covering the tattooed initials of “Supreme White Power” that circle his throat. He marveled at the people, streets, and stores, sights he’d only imagined during his time in solitary confinement—11 of the almost 15 years he’d spent in various jails and prisons. He was 30, free for the first time since he was 16."</p><div > </div><div >"Pedersen’s new life was short. On September 26, he and girlfriend Holly Grigsby enacted a scene in Everett, Washington, that he later said he’d planned for years: Grigsby told detectives she slashed his stepmother’s throat, killing her; Pedersen killed his father, shooting him in the head. Then, driving through Oregon in his father’s car with the man’s body slumped in the front seat, Pedersen and Grigsby allegedly murdered Cody Myers, a 19-year-old from Lafayette who happened to be in Newport for a jazz festival, stole his car, and fled to California. The California Highway Patrol captured the couple on October 5, the same day Myers’s body was found in a forest near the Oregon coast. Police announced that Pedersen and Grigsby were also suspected in the racially motivated killing of a black California man named Reginald Clark."</div><div > </div><div > </div><div >"Pedersen’s mother, meanwhile, suffered multiple personality disorder, according to court records. When the couple divorced in 1993, neither parent sought custody of Pedersen or his sister. The siblings moved into the house of an aunt living in Stayton, Oregon."</div><p > </p><p >(Alison Barnwell, May 24, 2012, updated August 28, 2012).</p><p > </p><p ><a href="http://newsdidmpd.blogspot.com/" >http://newsdidmpd.blogspot.com</a></p><p ><a href="http://annsmultipleworldofpersonality.blogspot.com/" >http://annsmultipleworldofpersonality.blogspot.com</a></p>