Understanding why people kill, to incorporate into your writing

An in-depth examination of the motives behind murder.

Why do people kill? A question that fascinates many of us, and one that seems to have many answers. For those who write about the subject, it is important to understand why murders take place.

In this session, Steve Keogh will demonstrate these reasons, making it clearer to understand the motives for murder. Steve considers the answer to this questions to be simpler than most people believe, and that there are only three reasons people choose to take another person’s life.

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