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w1ntermut3yesterday at 10:46 AM2 repliesview on HN

Academic success perhaps. The killer and Nuno Loureiro, the MIT professor he killed, were in the same class at Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal's leading engineering school). Loureiro had a distinguished career at MIT while the killer was homeless.


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storusyesterday at 12:19 PM

Maybe he had some idea that his buddy ran away with and he attributed his success to his idea, while he was homeless? There was a whole TV show around a similar idea (Breaking Bad).

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wtcactusyesterday at 1:07 PM

Jealousy is really the sickest of sins…