Read more insanity stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/10813/insanity.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:19:41 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74694/nyc-man-alter-ego-killed-son-wife.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen New York cops busted a Manhattan hotel janitor in the murder of his wife and 14-year-old son, he had one defense: his imaginary alter-ego "Roberto" did it. Otto Herrarte admitted stuffing the bodies in garbage bags at his Queens home, but said Roberto slit their throats. "I am Otto,...http://www.newser.com/story/74694/nyc-man-alter-ego-killed-son-wife.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 24 Nov 2009 3:00:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70765/elizabeth-smart-recounts-daily-sexual-abuse.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagElizabeth Smart delivered frank testimony in federal court today on the abuse she suffered at the hands of Brian David Mitchell during a 9-month abduction, describing how Mitchell used religion to justify repeatedly raping her. Smart, 14 at the time, said Mitchell chained her leg to a tree at the...http://www.newser.com/story/70765/elizabeth-smart-recounts-daily-sexual-abuse.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 01 Oct 2009 14:42:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68043/kidnappers-dad-my-son-is-a-crazy-person.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe father of the man accused of kidnapping, raping, and imprisoning Jaycee Dugard says his son was a model youth—until he discovered acid, reports the Los Angeles Times . "Everyone loved him," Manuel Garrido says of Phillip, who played guitar in a band, cracked jokes, and always helped around the...http://www.newser.com/story/68043/kidnappers-dad-my-son-is-a-crazy-person.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 28 Aug 2009 13:25:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58042/mad-pride-calls-for-rethink-of-insanity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA growing grassroots movement called Mad Pride is urging Americans to reconsider mental illness as a "dangerous gift" rather than a disease, Newsweek reports. Spearheaded by the 8,000-member-strong Icarus Project, based in Manhattan, Mad Priders are "pro-choice" about meds—take them if you want—and say mental illness can...http://www.newser.com/story/58042/mad-pride-calls-for-rethink-of-insanity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 04 May 2009 19:11:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53978/tyson-i-hear-voices.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMike Tyson’s handlers want him to stay on task, to talk about his new movie Tyson . The notorious heavyweight has other ideas. “I’ll talk about anything,” he says. “I’m not ashamed of anything I’ve done in my life.” And talk he does, touching on boxing, on women, on the voices...http://www.newser.com/story/53978/tyson-i-hear-voices.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 21 Mar 2009 11:33:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/46490/madoff-may-plead-insanity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagYou'd have to be a little bit crazy to cook up a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, but Bernard Madoff’s lawyers are exploring taking things a bit further with an insanity defense. “They may even say he has a multiple personality disorder,” a source tells the New York Daily News . Madoff...http://www.newser.com/story/46490/madoff-may-plead-insanity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 28 Dec 2008 15:56:23 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43074/uk-asylum-releases-ripper-suspects-notes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA British institution for the criminally insane has released the medical records of a madman long suspected of being Jack the Ripper, the Independent reports. The documents contain no conclusive proof, but offer enough to keep Thomas Cutbush on the suspect list. The "very insane" young man threatened to get...http://www.newser.com/story/43074/uk-asylum-releases-ripper-suspects-notes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 19 Nov 2008 7:19:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/26998/court-orders-fritzl-held-1-more-month.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn Austrian court today ordered Josef Fritzl to remain in custody for another month while the investigation continues, reports Reuters. In addition, reports the Times of London, prosecutors say Fritzl will probably now face manslaughter charges after admitting in an interview that one of the children he fathered with his...http://www.newser.com/story/26998/court-orders-fritzl-held-1-more-month.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 09 May 2008 7:42:35 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/26887/fritzl-blames-nazis-says-he-was-trying-to-save-daughter.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn jail-cell notes released by his lawyer, Josef Fritzl goes to bizarre lengths to defend the rape and imprisonment of his daughter, citing his Nazi upbringing for instilling “a high regard for decency and uprightness,” and a need to save the 18-year-old Elisabeth from drinking and dissipation. “She was going...http://www.newser.com/story/26887/fritzl-blames-nazis-says-he-was-trying-to-save-daughter.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 May 2008 11:53:38 CDT