By Andrew L. Jaffee

A 17-year-old Japanese kid killed and beheaded his mother. He put her head in a bag and stopped by an internet cafe to watch a music DVD before turning himself in to police(!?!?!). But not to worry, “some [psycho-babbling] experts” have reassured the nation — the perp was “desperate:”

…While such gruesome killings have outraged the nation, some experts caution that the dismembering of victims is not always a symptom of deeper social disfunction.

“In many cases, they killed in a desperate situation and carried or hid the body by dismembering it to avoid being caught for homicide,” said Yoshikazu Yuuma, an expert in criminal psychology at Saitama Institute of Technology outside Tokyo.

Ya’ gotta consider all angles now…