Former FBI profiler and current TV writer/consultant Jim Clemente breaks down the latest developments in the the bizarre case of the Oklahoma man accused of beheading a co-worker, and discusses why his employer and other people around him didn’t recognize the seemingly obvious signs that he might lash out violently.
“He definitely was motivated by revenge and he took advantage of radicalizing religion, and using that as an excuse to do it,” Clemente said about suspect Alton Alexander Nolen.
“Because I do believe that when you put together hate-speech – which is the reason he was suspended from his job – the fact that he was posting these videos of the beheadings that ISIS was doing, and talking about those things, and then, as an example of a radicalized version of Islam. You put all those things together and you basically have the trifecta - of this guy is probably going to act out violently.”
Clemente says that in his opinion, somebody should have intervened before the heinous act. “I think just suspending a guy like that, when you have that kind of information, and if you didn’t have that information about his Facebook page and his postings, you should have looked into that.
“As an employer, as a responsible human resources person, somebody should have gone into that, and at least offered psychological counseling, or made him go through testing before they let him go. Because putting that guy out in public obviously had horrendous, negative consequences.”
In the full episode, the discussion also focuses on the abduction case of missing Virginia student Hannah Graham, who has still not been found. Police arrested suspect Jesse Matthew on abduction charges in the disappearance of Graham, and the suspect has also been linked to another case of a Virginia women who was abducted and later found murdered.
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