Insane Killer Escapes During Mental Institution's Field Trip

Source: Fox News

Police are searching for killer committed to a mental institution after he escaped during a field trip to the Spokane County Interstate Fair.

Spokane County sheriff's Sgt. Dave Reagan says 57-year-old Phillip Arnold Paul was last seen Thursday morning in the northeast part of the fairgrounds.

The sheriff's office told KXLY in Spokane that they were "dismayed" that the Eastern State's Hospital didn't notify authorities for more than an hour and a half after they knew he was missing.

"It appears now there was a two hour lapse from the point he disappeared from his attendant to the sheriff's office was notified of his escape and obviously that's a concern to us," Sgt. Reagan told KXLY. "We're concerned that we were not aware that people of his criminal history were being brought to the fair for day trips. As a courtesy we would have liked to have been notified ahead of time."

In 1987, Paul slashed an elderly woman's throat in Sunnyside in 1987, soaked her body in gasoline to throw off search dogs and buried the remains in her flower garden.....


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Was a permission slip required?

like he did? And how in THE FUCK do you get let out for a "field trip" when you've been involuntarily committed in lieu of serving the much-deserved prison sentence you somehow managed to worm out of???

Because I've got nuthin'.

He does not meet the legal definition for eligibility for NGRI. A truly schizophrenic person might have a lot of reasons to soak a body in gasoline before burial other than to evade detection, though. I know nothing about the case, but offhand I trust the folks who do the sanity evaluations more than I trust the reporter to report the facts of the case accurately.

It's practically impossible for a layman to fake schizophrenia, unless there's some serious incompetence on the part of the evaluator, the court or both.

all this guy needs to do is pick up a clown costume at the fair and a new horror franchise is born.

Or as a deather, hey, he could claim real expertise: having served AS a death panel. ;-)

:)

Geez, can't shake that Michael Myers vibe about the whole thing.

is a movie character. "Insane killers" come in many forms and some are about as likely to kill again as you are.

good grief.

He could have burned her because his mind was telling him that's how you kill a witch and FOX decided he did it to avoid detection.

As I said, it's FOX News. There's no way of telling what's fact and what's trumped up for scary, sensational value. :shrug:

He then proceeded to lie to the whole world, insisting that Iraq was going to blow the US off the map if we did not launch a pre-emptive attack against Iraq. Hundreds of thousand, maybe even over a million, mostly innocent bystanders were killed in the war on Iraq. Bu*h did not even go to trial, is extremely wealthy, is walking around as free as bird, and is actually going to have a library named after him.

I guess one answer is that, due to corruption and/or lack of oversight, justice and other institutional systems often fail in a big way.

I mean, that is one scary hreadline. It looks like something you would see in a bad 50's crime show.

:)

:nuke:

One Flew Over the Hog Judging Event?

It's the Phil Paul Show! See the man with two first names lay into the librul conspiracy, and rip the cover off the dirty little secrets Washington doesn't want you to know.

;-)

Micheal Meyers evil cousin

bang up job, mental institution people.

Camping in the woods next to some horny teens.

i see. what was i thinking?

lol

:spray:

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/09/17/man-ruled-insane-in-1987-sunnyside-murder-case-escapes-during-outing-at-spokane-fair

"Reagan wrote that Eastern State staff believe Paul poses little danger unless he remains at large more than 48 hours, at which point his medication would wear off and he could become violent if confronted.

This indicates that the escapee had some sort of severe mental condition that can only be controlled by Medication. On medication NOT a problem, off his meds he can become violent.

Side note: People who can NOT control their violence to the level that when they do an act of violence intent is absent (No Intent, no crime) can subsequently to the violent act realize that the act was bad and try to cover it up (and also seek help). I can see the someone killing a person in an unprovoked rage and subsequent seeing what he or she had done and then try to cover it up afterward.

Remember insanity is a LEGAL DEFINITION, it is NOT a Psychological definition. Insanity is the absence of intent. If a five year old kills someone, the courts will rule that the five year old did NOT have the maturity to form an intent to kill and thus the killing was NOT a crime (The historical test for insanity is does the person who did the crime have the intent that can be formed by a typical 14 year old?).

The test for insanity has been changed in most states BUT the Federal Courts have ruled that if a person is suffering from mental disorder to a degree that it is impossible for such a person to form any form of intent that person can NOT be convicted of a crime (This affects those states that either "abolished" the insanity defense or made the test so hard that the defense was for all purposes abolished). Yes, a person can be insane at the time of the crime (in this case Murder) and afterward be sane enough to cover up the crime (In fact if a person is insane at the time of his or her trial, the case can NOT proceed, if the defendant can NOT help his defense do to his or her mental restrictions then the trial has to be continued till such time as the defendant is able to help in her or his defense).

have in the past committed violence?!? The foregoing would be a cost-effective solution.

Hopefully he is either caught quickly, or he stays on the opposite side of town from me and my family.

here are a few local articles about the situation.



http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/18/patient-with-violent-past-escapes-at-fair/

http://www.kxly.com/global/story.asp?s=11153916

http://www.krem.com/topstories/stories/krem2-091709-patient-escape.18d013beb.html

Sounds like the beginning of a slasher flick.

When I got home tonight from a date there was a hook hanging from my car door handle.

Spokane is famous for making stupid mistakes like this. This is the place where parking garages are built that make one person rich and the city poor. This is the place where the cops used to take young boys out of the boys ranch for "special" visits. This is the place where a serial rapist was allowed to go on for years because he was from a prominent family and the cops could not catch him in the act. This is the place where industry blocks access to the river. This is the place where they make streets one way so that traffic will flow more freely at 35 miles an hour. I could go on, but I think you get the point...

Really, its a pretty nice place to live. My family is still there.

I'm planning on calling them today to make sure they are all still alive.

In 1960.

Who tried to pickup teenage boys on the internet with offers of basketball memorabilia and city hall internships.

but yeah - this time maybe his escape ought to end with a bang.

found not guilty by reason of insanity. Field trips? The hospital took a whole bunch of patients, this guy among them, on a field trip, apparently with minimal supervision, since he was able to escape.
And now he is running around? It isn't even the first time he escaped- last time he escaped, he assaulted a deputy sheriff. And the hospital is taking him on field trips?
Boggles the mind.

This can't be real.

in another news article is was stated that the instituion takes them out as part of their therapy.

This news article is very real btw

As his history while under treatment. According to the articles provided, he has medication by injection, which generally isn't a good sign. His brother said he injured four guards at the institution at some point, and then there was the earlier escape attempt and the assault on the deputy.

One wonders.

It's worth noting that most schizophrenics aren't violent, but this man does seem to have a history of considerable violence and non-compliance.

On the other hand, he was up for release in 2003 and his application was rejected, so maybe this episode will prevent him from being released, which would be a good thing. If the staff let him go on such a trip they likely would be supportive of his next application. I hope they recover him without further injury to anyone. Insanity is real, and even though he murdered someone he shouldn't be jailed or executed, but I very much doubt that this is someone who can ever be safely released.

The circumstances of being subject to a widespread manhunt are acutely stressful, which isn't likely to help his mental condition. I hope this story does not have a dire ending.

that Glenn Beck is just a bus ride away.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hW8dpLYUJaUlUu1VlIAHXXdO8J-wD9ARD3700

Wait, he was captured. Hope they frisked him for body parts.

If they did and he didn't have any, it was overblown.

Almost as bad as body parts. Maybe the police can link it to some "rusty" crime.