Beyond Reason

“Intellectual gymnastics” is what this book is about, and how they killed two people. This is a fine dissection of a personality disordered woman and her drawing into a foile à deux her boyfriend.

I finished this book wondering what I believed and what I didn't about what Elizabeth and Jens said over the years. Do I believe Elizabeth's British accent is fake? Absolutely. She grew up in Virginia, and only went to high school in the UK. A complete put-on. Do I believe Elizabeth's mother sexually abused her? No. Jens most likely took those nude photos of her and they planted them. Do I believe Jens was impotent until the murders, then hyperpotent? Perhaps.
What do I think about their obsessive, organized shoplifting? I think it was fetishized, sexualized control over others, hence the carefully labeled bags and not using the items.
I think one or both of them had hypergraphia, and that wasn't fully explored.

These are two of the most deeply disturbed teenagers/young adults I have come across, and I have a master's in counseling. Two personality disordered people in a perfect storm, and I still don't think we have the full story because Elizabeth is such a manipulative liar.