Murderers have long given various excuses for committing heinous acts and have given truly bizarre defences that beggared belief. Yet, the reasons Diana Dial gave for killing Jack Ferris, whilst simply bizarre and unbelievable, she truly did believe them. It showed the extent of her total separation from reality. She believed that she was being hunted by nazi spies, was being kept under surveillance by enemies with the approval of the White House! She also believed she was working with the CIA to combat these enemies.
The start of her mental breakdown began in 1979. She had married her long time love, George Gallow, and had two children. But a miscarriage triggered off her breakdown. She started believing she had been targeted by a woman called Sheryl Thompson, who with friends with enemies in the Nazi Party, the Communist Party, publishers, you name it, they were part of it. She made her children wear bracelets that were supposed to ward off evil, protect them from the nazis, etc. After this, her husband filed for divorce. Diana changed her surname to Dial. She then went through a phase known as Hypergraphia, which is compulsive letter writing. She fired them off constantly, to politicians, Police, FBI, the White House, etc, about her being hunted by assassins. She had a room-mate named Jack Ferris, whom one day she pointed a gun at and shot dead. Then she calmly called the Police. Put on trial, she was sentenced to 60 years to life, which is very strange as she is very, very clearly, completely delusional. She told Dr. Michael Stone that Ferris was one of her pursuers! She also claimed that these pursuers were responsible for the Oklahoma bombing and had framed Timothy McVeigh! She truly believed everything she said. She did not duck any of Dr Stone's questions, did not falter anything she said, and would have been stated as being truthful. Her body language screamed "She is telling the truth!" She should be in a secure hospital.
I think there is more to this case. I want more facts about the relationship between Dial and her husband from; several months prior to the alleged miscarriage, during the alleged miscarriage and after the alleged miscarriage. I want to know about the evidence of the alleged miscarriage. [(There has been previous murder cases; where women have lied about having a baby and or miscarriage for attention) and there has been cases where woman have started killing either men or children in order to get the attention of the man they desired attention from and the man they really desired it from has either absconded or died) I need to know more about whether Dial was ignored about this lost baby. In many cases; people morn over the loss of the baby; but ignore the woman in pain. I know in fact that people lie about phobias and the like; for attention and there is usually evidence of not following the script.
ReplyDeleteAudrey Marie Hilley was one out of the several cases that also demonstrate mass letter writing and alleged delusions. Hilley has to set up and justify her acts. One in particular was exposed in one of the letters she wrote. Hilley sent mass letters to her home that were threat letters. In one of the letters, she wrote about having to leave the home. Hilley wrote the letters as if the letters were being sent from a killer threatening her and her family of they did not leave. Hilley wanted the insurance money from the husband and wanted to take off to Florida. Therefore she needed to create a non suspicious cause for leaving after she would get the money. Hilley also tried to provoke the husband and wrote letters to herself but alleged that the letters were from a variety of men. Hilley tried to taunt the husband with the letters.
Dial does not follow her script in the same way with Ferris and the agencies she called; like when she was alleging these beliefs with her family.
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ReplyDeleteDial does mention these alleged beliefs with her family and Dial's intense attention grabbing behavior pushed away her family.
Dial alleged she had pursuers prior to killing Ferris. Dial never mentioned Ferris as a pursuer to any agency. Dial confessed that she marked Ferris as pursuer. Dial also states that these pursuers broke apart the family; when in fact it was her husband that filed the divorce.
Dial kept these alleged beliefs to herself this time around with Ferris; unlike with her family in the past. In the past, the alleged beliefs caused the husband to leave and with the kids.
Dial was prepared with a gun, kept the alleged beliefs to herself, marked a man Ferris (a pun of who separated the family) and had staged many calls and letters prior to killing him, about someone trying to kill her.
Dial had despair and resentment about allot of things, such as, husband leaving, the attention/treatment post the alleged miscarriage, getting attention, loosing her kids. Dial even wrote, "deny my children their mother".
Dial had no real life after this separation from the alleged potential child, her husband and kids. I am not surprised that she conjured a phobia about her kids getting hurt; she has an alleged miscarriage. Dial at the point in time after loosing everything; has nothing to live for other than what she grieved, resentenced and despaired. Dial, like many, could not let go. When one ends up like Dial, as Dial did when with Ferris; what does one do with themselves........
Dial does not have any of these beliefs after getting caught. While incarcerated, Dial demonstrates none of these behaviors.
I am not convinced that Dial has any disorder. Dial also has no mental defect in her brain. There is no proven physical defect or cause for alleged Schizophrenia.
Concluding that one has a hallucination would be a conclusion under a matter of speculation.
Delusion is a spin of the word, Belief. A belief is irrational; as it is a choice to accept something that has yet to be proven reality. There may be some coincidences, a fact or two and the like, or there may be more facts leading to more likely being true or untrue; but not enough to claim it in fact true or untrue.
The negative symptoms are also symptoms of prolonged lack of sleep and poor diet. You add unmanaged emotions and you have your disorganized thoughts, speech and behavior. You take into account poor diet and prolonged lack of sleep; you get the negative physical symptoms.
I am not convinced that schizophrenia has any truth.
We do have more evidence aligned with these allegations of 'delusions' and hallucinations. We do know that many are created for attention, setting up a cause or justification for acts and criminal acts, excusing conduct and somehow they magically start to manifest around the premeditation of a crime, the emotional turning point in a relationship, and the like. We also know that they seem to magically go away once a criminal act is caught.
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I would like to get more info on what dial wrote in her letters and her statements made. I know Dial was not convinced of her own alleged beliefs.
Just like all of us; but without the same amount of despair, grief and resentment.
We either choose to believe and much of the beliefs confirm something we wish, a validation, a bias or a desire; but in the back of our minds there is this doubt or possibility that it is untrue. Or we don't accept and do not choose to believe; but in the back of our minds there is this chance or possibility it is true.
Dial stated something about killing Ferris in a way that many widows kill their husbands (Gun, kill shot)...Dial stated, "I knew it was probably wrong".
Dial was not even convinced of her own alleged belief.
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ReplyDeleteDial also alleged that she was being poisoned; but we see no actions to correct or facilitate the health concerns with being poisoned.
Dial alleged that Ferris has been poisoning her "with drinks, containing gold".
Dial kept these thoughts to herself entirely; unlike when with her family and when her husband was around.
Dial made no reports about Ferris poisoning her while the alleged poisoning was happening and Dial made no reports to health facilities to correct the alleged being poisoned. Dial made no actions that support that she really believed that she had consumed drinks from any person that had poisonous material/chemicals in them.
Dial could also just refuse to drink the alleged poisonous drinks. The alleged way that Ferris allegedly tried to kill her was not even a forced, real life threatening act; as Dial could deny or refuse the drinks and she could have also reported it, and went and got medical attention for the alleged already consumed gold laden drinks.
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ReplyDeleteWith all facts considered; it comes across that Dial wanted to preserve Ferris for something; but wanted to stage a justification. Dial was also very good at keeping her alleged delusional behavior at 'bay' when around Ferris.
ReplyDeleteIt is a classic behavior of woman; passivity and the preference of keeping their true motivations and intentions in the 'grey area'. You must know how to read in between the lines, so to speak. They like their convictions to be a mystery. Woman killers do not have the same alpha male ego demeanor has men. I would have to say that a female killer can be more dangerous in the aspect that they are more secretive, passive, conduct more deceptive calculating schemes and do not need or desire the same adoration for their convictions; as men.
The Hilley case is a great example of the deceiving schemes and patience that female killers have. Hilley really put allot of effort into staging every act and creating justification for acts in order to covet the suspicious of the act.
Hilley even created a smoke to covet the criminality sign of taking off to Florida, leaving Anniston. Hilley staged vandalism and staged threat letters that directed her to leave Anniston.
Hello Holly. Apologies for not responding as I have been offline for months. The case of Diane Dial certainly is an eye-opener - did you see her interviewed by Dr Michael Stone on "Most Evil?" Yes, women killers can be worse than men. For some reason, they are more brutal towards other women, but Dr Stone concluded that Diane has severe delusions. Yet, she is so lucid when she was interviewed, not a screaming maniac, and that is much more scary. ou sent a number of communications about the case and I thank you for them. Respectfully Daryl
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