Shawn Grate - The Typical Rape-Murder Criminal

I shall never be able to fully understand the male fascination with killing women they are sexually attracted to. In many murder cases it looks like revenge because of this unsettling fascination, but the logic of it escapes me. One of these murderers of women is Shawn Michael Grate who proved to be a serial killer. He raped and killed five young women, but was later found out to have killed at least five more. Two of these murders were classified as "aggravated" which makes it even more appropriate that he was sentenced to death, and the execution is scheduled to 2025. Sadly enough that will not bring the women back to life, but it will save others which in itself is a consolation.

Like in many other murder cases of men who also rape their victims one wonders at their main motive: Was it the forced sex or the killing that drove them the most? Both these crimes is based on POWER: The man see them as an opportunity to show off their physical strength and what they see as the their main sexual ability, namely bringing about a female submission that, to them, proves their own superciliousness. I don't think I've read about any rape-murder cases in which this combination wasn't the incentive. To me that's a very potent indication that men in a patriarchy are brought up with rather sick notions about themselves and what constitutes the build up of maleness. Actually, I'm more or less convinced that all these rape-murder cases - and there are MANY!!! - may be an important key to what's going on in the world of men as such. However, not many non-feminists want to see them as such which in itself is quite interesting .... 

As to Shawn Grate he grew up to become a charming an quite good-looking man whom the girls liked. That he in reality was a monster didn't they know. The only one who might have suspected it at an early age was his sister as the two of them often would fight. At that time he was consumed with rage at their Mom for leaving their father and her kids to live with another man. This childhood experience may have brought about mental traumas, but it can never be an excuse for what he did to other women. However, it's often brought up in discussions of rape-murder criminals which is quite unacceptable. I see the fact of something like that being used as an "excuse" or "explanation" as part of the general leniency toward this kind of criminals. Actually, that brings about the main problem in understanding what's going on as it sort of blind us to it. Instead of investigating the problem of all of these almost identical rapist-murderers from new angels it leads us to turning the other cheek, so to speak, and not dig as deep as we should.

According to his ex-wife he, typically enough, expected to be obeyed: A "no" was not acceptable to him, the male. In my opinion wanting proofs of female submission can never become a proof - or even indication - of a genuine male supremacy. To me the very need of something like that looks like a genuine proof of the opposite ....

Grate was caught when woman (called "Jane Doe") whom he had kidnapped and raped several times succeeded in escaping and calling the cops. That must have been like a blow to the center of his male pride, but more important than that: It put a stop to his terror ....

 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/shawn-grate 

 

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/living-with-a-serial-killer-where-serial-killer-shawn-grate-now 

 

https://www.the-sun.com/news/6643976/shawn-grate/ 

 

https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/08/shawn-grate-survivor-escape/ 

 

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