At Eastern State Hospital in Washington State, the government healthcare professionals have recently struggled with the tough question of how they can make the paranoid schizophrenic killers in their hospital feel better.  What did these highly trained government doctors decide?  Take the criminally insane to the fair where there are hundreds of small children and then don’t keep a close eye on the patients.

                Paul had escaped once before, on a field trip in 1991.  Yes, this is the level of government healthcare in Washington State.  Let an insane killer like Phillip Arnold Paul pack his clothes, food and money into a backpack and carry it out of the hospital for a trip to the fair.  Then allow him to walk away.  When they realized Phillip Paul was gone, these dedicated public servants didn’t report it for two hours.    Were they hoping he would come back?

           Under the care of government doctors Paul walked away from Eastern State Hospital twice.  Isn’t the definition of insanity doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result?  Who is running the asylum?

           Paul was committed after the 1987 murder of 78-year-old Ruth Mottley.  Paul stated that she was a witch, so he strangled her then slit her throat with a knife.  He then made a burnt offering of a deer as a sacrifice.   

           Police apprehended Paul, after three days, nearly two hundred miles away.  When he was captured, the police found a scythe, a long curved blade attached to a handle, in his possession.  A scythe is the farming tool you see in images of the Grim Reaper.  What would a paranoid schizophrenic killer want with such a blade?  I’m guessing that it would not be farming.

Update on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 11:43PM by Kyle Pratt

          There are days and times I just want to pull out what little hair I have left.  First they let Phillip Paul, a criminally insane murderer go to the fair.  While he is there, they don’t bother to watch him so he walks away.  Fortunately, the police capture three days later and no one was harmed, but now he has returned to court and might be released on a technicality.  To once again paraphrase Charles Dickens, if the law allows this then the law is an ass.