A Stolen Sharkskin Suite

The Texas insanity defense law requires that a delusional person acting under "orders" from God be judged not guilty by reason of insanity, but that a delusional person acting under "orders" from Satan be considered sane, according to prominent forensi-psycho Park Dietz. Thus, Dietz believed that Andrea Yates knew that drowning her kids upon command of someone "without moral authority" was wrong and thus that she did not qualify for insanity law protection. Dietz later concluded the opposite in another Texas child killing case because God had supposedly assured that mother that her kids would be better off dead. Enrique Mora of Montclair, Calif., said that within a few days of his gold detector's having sounded in his front yard, he had dug a hole six stories down. He said he had only planned to dig three or four feet, but got "carried away." John C. Veltman M.D., 52, of Martinsville, W. Va, was arrested after he commandeered a backhoe, hit a building, a tree, and then crashed through two fences. Veltman allegedly told an arriving police officer, "I am a motherfucking medical doctor, and you are below me."