Kalamazoo Killer - I would analyze his brain cheistry

[FlatBaroque]

and test for lead and other harmful elements. Kalamazoo is not far from Flint.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Kalmazoo is quite a ways from Flint.

Kalamazoo is on the way to Chicago and points West. Flint is on the way to "Up North" (my fellow Michiganders will get that) and the Upper Peninsula. Possible brain tumor comes to mind (ala Charles Whitman), but that is just conjecture.

[1939]

5. Its da yoopee not the upper peninsula NT

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. For yoopers maybe.

We called it "up North." Well, my dad called it Wisconsin (being born in Milwaukee).

[1939]

8. Once a part of Wisconsin

Congress gave it to Michigan as compensation for awarding the Toledo Strip to Ohio.

[Festivito]

2. My first guess would be that he found health care to be too expensive.

The west side of Michigan, 3 hours drive time from Democratic Detroit, is sickeningly right wing. People are too strapped competing with the Jones' to pull out an extra couple hundred bucks a month for the co-pays.

"I can't afford it," I hear from them.

"How much do you think it should cost?" I respond.

They tend to become silent.

[gollygee]

4. Kalamazoo isn't totally right wing

It's a college town, so there's a strong very liberal side to it. And then there are the way right-wing folks you see so much in West Michigan too.

[Festivito]

6. No place is totally right wing.

I'm suggesting he's in that zone where a single payer system would have given him some help that ACA could miss. Of course the right wing way could have left him with no chance.

[gollygee]

3. The guy lived in a rural area outside Kalamazoo that would be on well water. N/t