Imagine for a moment, that in a flash your life changes. Something unexpected happens to you that you have no control over. It could be something good like winning the lottery or even something bad like going to jail. But let’s just say, for this instance, what happened to you was bad. You ended up killing someone with no intent to do so. What would you do? How would you explain to your family or friends what happened? How would you feel? This is exactly what happened to 43 year old Kristie Nesby. What seemed to be a normal day for Nesby instantly changed after a visit to Chick-Fill-A. On June 23rd 2016, “Kristie Nesby was accused of committing a robbery, running down and killing a 71-year-old woman, and then carjacking two different women.” …show more content…
This can be used because the biological theory suggests that stress on the body caused by some factor can be the cause of a crime. It also suggests that a person may have had a genetic predisposition to commit the crime and happened to be in a circumstance that triggers the actual crime. This will explain why Nesby thought that her drink caused her to commit the crime however it does not explain why she told the bystander that “they were trying to kill her.” In order to explain this, another theory is needed. The one that best explains this is the psychological theory it suggests that Nesby could have late-onset schizophrenia. Late-onset schizophrenia is a condition that causes the patient to have “more aggressive positive symptoms, extending to olfactory and tactile hallucinations as well as auditory and visual hallucinations and delusions are quite common. (These) individuals start to experience symptoms of schizophrenia after their 40s.” In Nesby’s case, late-onset schizophrenia could explain why she killed the 71 year old lady and why she carjacked two cars. Her hallucinations caused by schizophrenia could have been that of “someone” trying to kill her, one of those people being the 71 year old