Part Two of the psychological anatomy of suicide, by Karma Gray. If Part One asked what happens inside a mind that cannot stay, Part Two asks how the ground beneath that decision was built. Childhood adversity. Contagion. The prison cell. And the narrow window that closes behind most suicidal states, if it can only be held open.

He hung a cat from a clothesline and set it on fire. He built traps that injured other children. He bought mice to decide which lived and which died. Part 2 of The Crime Ledger's criminal analysis covers the childhood violence nobody stopped and the identity lie that shattered what was left.

He was born under someone else's name, in a place designed to make sure nobody remembered he existed. Part 1 of The Crime Ledger's criminal analysis traces Ted Bundy's childhood — the family deceptions, the early violence no adult addressed, and the psychological fractures that developmental criminology now recognizes as measurable risk factors for serial offending.