About a week ago, our society was shocked after the founding of a female body on the side of a highway in Jakarta. There were many bruises on her body, and it was later determined that the cause of dead is asphyxiation. The body once belonged to Ade Sara Angelina, a 19 years old university student. It was Hafitd, her ex-boyfriend, who brutally tortured and murdered Ade Sara. He had help from his current girlfriend, Asyifa. The couple is now a huge hit in the social media, newspapers, and televisions along with every little detail of Ade Sara’s tragic murder.
I have read plenty of the articles about it, I have tried to find as many sources as possible from either online newspaper or TV show, but no matter how hard I try, I can never rationalize this horrific murder. You would probably ask, “Aren’t all murder supposed to be irrational?” As my favorite TV character Rick Castle said, “Murder usually makes a great deal of sense.” It’s mostly about money, or power; love, or jealousy. This is not the case.
Hafitd was Ade Sara’s boyfriend. They broke up almost a year ago, and he has a new girlfriend, Asyifa. It doesn’t make sense to me that he would still hold a grudge against their break-up. It’s even more bizarre that his new girlfriend would want to help him tortured and murdered Ade Sara. I’m going to go ahead and say that both of them are psychopaths. Somebody got their interrogation photo in what is supposed to be a police station and uploaded it to the media. In the picture, the couple shows no regret at all. The girl, Asyifa, was smiling to the camera. What kind of a crazy world are we live in?
There are many comments and theories on the World Wide Web about this issue; my take is that both of the suspects are borderline psychopaths. To the parents of the deceased, Hafitd was a romantic and loving boyfriend during the approx. 6-8 months of him dating Ade Sara. However, to the deceased, Hafitd was overly protective and short-tempered. Asyifa’s neighbors reported to the media that Hafitd often hits Asyifa near her house. Similar things have been said about Asyifa. They act different way to different people.
Prior to her death, the suspects hit Ade Sara repeatedly using Asyifa’s shoe and electrocuted her using Hafitd’s stun gun. The poor girl was tortured for almost 7 hours before she finally passed away because Asyifa’s pushed newspaper rolls down her throat and caused her asphyxiation. The suspects then traveled around Jakarta for nearly 23 hours, looking for a place to dump the body. They drove as if nothing has happened; they went to a gas station and a car shop to fix the car’s engine. Add that to the fact that after the murder, they both ‘tweeted’ their fake regrets regarding Ade Sara’s death, and even have the audacity to come to the funeral home; we have manipulative, cruelty, extreme boldness, liars, and lack of remorse. All of them are general traits to psychopaths.
Psychopathy is a physical defect; it’s something you are born with, or something you catch on in your developmental stage of life (from physical or psychological trauma). It’s a disease with no cure, but it doesn’t make the psychopathic minds any less guilty than other criminals. Murder is murder, no matter who you are or what mental illness you have. Psychopathy diagnostic is not going to be your reason to be free; it’s simply going to be the reason why. And the why doesn’t matter so much as the aftermath, does it? The fact is the suspects have robbed the deceased of life. They have robbed the victim’s parents of the happiness of being one. They have robbed their family of being normal and happy family. They have robbed them self of their childhood innocence. All have been lost; there is no return from killing. With that said, I sincerely hope that the juries, judges, lawyers, and Indonesian law can give us the fairest trial to both the deceased and the suspects’ families.
DISCLAIMER :: I’m writing this post as a passer-by, someone who don’t know the victim and the suspects directly, someone who came across the news in the morning and can’t stop thinking about what the world has come to. I’m not a psychologist, I’m just a huge fan of crime shows especially the most bizarre one like Criminal Minds. I’m drawn to psychopathy and human minds, so I’m not completely in the dark, I’m speaking with basic known facts about the subject.
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