I m only nice to the ones I want sex from, he wrote after his capture. Dodd was most certainly a sociopath, incapable of harboring genuine feelings for others. He used children to satisfy his need for control and domination. But after a while things started to build up again, stress, things on the job, things just not going good. And at a point, I couldn t really control myself any longer.
Sociopaths exhibit poor impulse control.
They also get bored easily. One possible explanation to Dodd s behavior might be due to a bad fall. As a child, he fell off a fence and knocked himself unconscious. Although many children take hard falls, sometimes a blow to the head can cause brain injury, which can be a factor in antisocial behavior. Inhibitions are less controllable.