Michael McKee Believes He's Smarter Than Prosecutors — Shavaun Scott Disagrees

The evidence the state has presented is substantial: surveillance footage, a ballistics match through NIBIN, a cell phone that went dark during the murder window, and years of documented threats against Monique. Michael McKee pleaded not guilty anyway. He waived bail but reserved the right to revisit it — a calculated procedural move, not a concession.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott wrote "The Minds of Mass Killers" and has evaluated violent offenders for thirty years. She explains the psychology behind defendants who treat prosecution as competition. There's a profile. Bundy cross-examined witnesses about his own alleged murders. Peterson sat detached through testimony about Laci and Conner. Watts tried to manipulate investigators within days of the killings. The courtroom detachment isn't random — it's diagnostic.

McKee is a surgeon. Elite training. Decade-plus of operating on human bodies under extreme pressure. Scott analyzes whether that professional identity feeds into the compartmentalization required to sit calmly while facing aggravated murder charges. The theory she addresses directly: the detachment that allows someone to appear unaffected at trial may be the same psychological mechanism that allegedly allowed them to pull the trigger. If other people were never fully real to you, their deaths don't carry the moral weight they should — and neither does your accountability.

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