Gary would become my first perfect score – a 40 out of 40 on the Psychopathy Checklist, one of only a handful that I would find in the next twenty years.

Fact: Seventy-seven percent of psychopaths in the United States are incarcerated.

Fact: Psychopaths are six times more likely than other criminals to commit new crimes following release from prison.

Fact: A psychopath is born every 47 seconds.

Fact: The cost of crime is $3.2 trillion per year—an amount greater than the expenditures for all health care in the United States.

Another difference between psychopaths and other inmates is that psychopaths don’t get distressed by being in prison. Most inmates get depressed when they get inside, and they find prison to be a stressful experience. A hallmark feature of psychopaths’ disorder is that they don’t get bothered by much of anything. They don’t ruminate and they don’t get depressed.