The Death of James Bulger #47 - a podcast by SMP

Why did two ten year old boys in Liverpool kill 2 year old toddler James Bulger in 1993?

Welcome to Solvable Mysteries Podcast, hosted by Juras Sim and co-hosted by Glenn Highcove.  In this episode we discuss one of the darkest and most disturbing case in our show to date, the torture and killing of baby boy James Bulger, killed at age two by mentally disturbed elementary school children.  These children, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, kidnapped James away from his mother and led him on a violent, pain-filled foot voyage across downtown Liverpool before smashing his head and body with bricks.  He was also assaulted in other ways before this, and the murder was clearly premeditated and carried out with the full participation of both suspects (now convicts).  

In our show today, we talk about the many social and political issues surrounding this case, and then attempt to decode and solve the psychological mystery around why children would do this, and specifically what the roots were that would case Robert Thompson and Jon Venables to do something they knew was wrong and aberrant.  Finally, we discuss the blame and culpability around the adults in their lives, and adjacent to this event, who should have known something was wrong with their lives and with the situation and intervened.

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