A power-oriented killer often falls into the organized category. A killer like this may quietly blend in—an apparently mild-mannered good citizen—or may stand out for personal qualities such as intelligence, charm, self-confidence, and the kind of charisma that wins deference from others and can lead to prominence in a local or professional community. Hervey Cleckley, a twentieth-century theorist of psychopathy, had a name for this kind of socially acceptable facade—he called it the mask of sanity.

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