What is your experience, with a psychopath.

@Abrienda They put on a kind face. Until the moment you realize i afraid it's too late.

Yes it was termed "The Mask of Sanity" in a famous book by an American doctor who studied what he called the rise of psychopathic behavior in the United States (he did not say it was LIMITED to the USA it was just the only place that had proper medical record keeping in I think the 1950 or 60's when he wrote it). I am fascinated by real crime and have read now maybe a 500 books on the subject the very first one being the best called "Mom" by Glen Olsen about a case in your Washington state (city Spokane?).

America's most famous criminal psychopath has to be Ted Bundy who tried to prevent himself getting the death penalty by offering to help police departments in America help catch other criminal psychopaths. And in case you think I am singling out the USA, Austria also has a large number, including you-know-who.

@Wishingwellguy There are actually...I recommend "The Mask of Sanity". One immediate tell is when words continually do not match deeds, no mistake or problem is ever of their creation and when confronted simply reply y=their actions were actually well intended but misunderstood. Its a kinda a joke but their is am actual term for it which I cant remember but can describe...a little boy finds a turtle and tries to drowns it because he decides life is awful, is not worth living and entirely without hope or purpose so kills the turtle to spare it from those agonies. I don't have the book and cannot remember the actual term but it is close to what is called "sympathetic murder" like the case of a boyfriend and girlfriend found dead in Joshua Tree National Park in your California in 2017.