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Those working on an evil genius with malice aforethought…

… sort of theory should be aware of this.

… Zinkhan didn’t set the schedule for a planned trip to Amsterdam or even buy the airline ticket for the flight out of Atlanta.

Harmen Verbruggen, dean of Vrije Universiteit (Free University) in Amsterdam — where Zinkhan has taught part-time for two years — invited Zinkhan to help the university start up a marketing master’s program, Verbruggen told the newspaper Tuesday. The dean’s secretary made travel arrangements with Delta Air Lines three or four days before the triple homicide, he said.

Zinkhan’s travel plans had been widely reported as an indication he had planned to flee to Europe after the shootings.

At this point, I’m seeing him push his car into a body of water and then head for the remotest part of the Appalachian Trail he knows and shoot himself.

Margaret Soltan, April 29, 2009 9:33AM
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4 Responses to “Those working on an evil genius with malice aforethought…”

  1. wayward Says:

    Just out of curiosity, if we were going to kill himself anyhow, why would he bother concealing his car?

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    The car is a very immediate problem – an easy and possibly quick way for him to be found. The suicide’s going to take a little while, and he wants to be left alone to get to where he wants to get to do it.

  3. NDC Says:

    While I thought immediately following the killings that he was going to kill himself, the more I read, the more I think he might be the kind of guy who really tries to get away, rather than the kind of nut who loses it, kills his wife and then kills himself.

  4. Margaret Soltan Says:

    I know what you mean, NDC. I’m by no means entirely convinced of my theory. But I guess I base it on the absolute absence of even a peep out of him, which is pretty amazing, plus my sense that he’s — under the rage — a hyper-rational he-man.

    Like a lot of murderers, he’s gotten what he wanted – the removal of his wife (and other enemies) from the face of the earth. He can die happy.

    And his rationality makes him realize that he really can’t live any sort of life with the whole world chasing him.

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