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SPOILER: Why did the murderer do what he did to the victim?

posted 9 years ago by jeffyoung1
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SPOILER:

I didn't see the movie but after reading Wikipedia and other people's posts on this board, I know the storyline.

I read that the killer, Marzin, supposedly lured the victim by being her date. He raped and killed her then committed some willful, heinous act by bleaching her corpse inside and out. Did the movie ever explain his motivation for doing something like that? His rape and murder were evil enough, but the follow-up bleaching, tells me the victim harbored some kind of rage and hate towards the victim either in some direct way, or he was projecting his rage and hate on an innocent, helpless young woman.

I'm assuming that in the movie had they investigated his childhood, they would have discovered some real twisted sh't. In real life every time the police catch a particularly evil murderer or serial killer, his life history reveals a story of twisted tragedy, abuse, mental illness that warped a human being into a monster bearing a human face.

[–] iroquoisjoe 9 years ago

The assailant sanitized the victim's body using bleach applied externally (skin) and internally (vagina, uterus, mouth, throat, stomach, anus, rectum, colon, etc.) to destroy any of his body fluid remnants (semen, saliva, blood, bloody urine, etc) that could positively link him to the assault through forensic DNA analysis.

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[–] moviebuf-11 9 years ago

I just watched the movie and there was nothing alluding to his "being her date."

Marzin first spotted Carolyn at the annual picnic for her mother's counterterrorism agency, but they apparently never met. Marzin was a snitch for the agency, and was invited to the picnic by the agent he was secretly working with.

The original evidence that tipped off the investigation was a group photo taken at the picnic, showing Marzin kind of off to the side and staring across the group at Carolyn. He became obsessed with her and kidnapped her several days later when she went to a bakery to order a cake for her mother's birthday. The theory (which was never debunked) was that Carolyn must have rebuked his advances, so he raped and killed her, then bleached away all forensic evidence.

There was no mention of his childhood or anything that would have helped explain his horrific act. The focus of the story was not on what motivated Marzin, but on the investigation itself and the toll it took on the mother and her friends at the department.

[–] Arseweb 8 years ago

There was also the comic book which hinted at his being a violent sexual fantasist.