“Because He Just Wanted To.”

The San Francisco Chronicle has added a chilling detail to the story they have been updating since the hit and run rampage yesterday. I mentioned earlier the familiar pattern that has been developing. Here's the detail that says the pattern may be all too familiar.

Some family members said Papal had mental problems and lived in fear of the devil; others said his recent, arranged marriage may have made him stressed.

A source close to the investigation in San Francisco, however, said Papal showed no signs of mental illness or remorse in his initial interviews with authorities. Papal reportedly told police that he had run down pedestrians "because he just wanted to."

Along with words from another witness that indicate Papal was completely calm, with a flat affect:

The office manager at a dental office at 500 Spruce St., who identified herself only as Kira, saw the arrest from a second-floor window as police dragged the driver from his battered car, its windshield caved in and its hood crumpled.

"He was absolutely indifferent, no fear, no expression," she said. "He was like a zombie."

Sometimes madmen show inappropriate affect. So do zealots sometimes.

Sometimes the two two are really one and the same.