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Imprisonment of John Kappler

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On Saturday, April 14, 1990, John Kappler, a sixty year-old retired anesthesiologist, packed his Hyundai Sonata for the drive from Boston, Massachusetts to his home in Van Nuys, California (5-6). His car never left the state of Massachusetts . . . Kappler will probably never see the state of California again. Within minutes of pulling away from the curb in front of his daughter Elsie's home in Medford (just outside Boston), Kappler was careening along a jogging path adjacent to the Alewife Brook Parkway in Cambridge (12). According to Kappler, his act was "A great challenge. That I had no alternative. I got in the car and I started" (103).

On the jogging path that morning was Paul Mendelsohn, a thirty-two year old psychiatric resident at New England Medical Center, out for a training run in preparation for his fourth San Francisco Marathon (10), and Deborah Brunet-Tuttle, a thirty-two year old mother and human services worker, on her way home from the store with groceries and some plastic Easter eggs she intended to use at her church's hunt (12). At about 10:35 am, Mendelsohn was struck by the right side Kappler's Sonata, impacting the windshield and sustaining a fractured skull, then carried several hundred feet down the jogging path before his crumpled body fell to the ground. Brunet-Tuttle, to this day, does not even remember being run down and dragged by Kappler's auto. She suffered a number of fractures, including her pelvis. Mendelsohn died less than sixte

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e give up his practice of medicine. And none of the hospitals in which he practiced had ever been made aware of his homicidal behavior or the fact that he sometimes heard voices (65, 72, 84). He would frequently medicate himself with drugs he had prescribed; his own psychiatrist, in a relationship that began in 1975, failed to ever monitor his use of any medications (85). His wife, Tommie, over the years had developed the ability to recognize the early warning signs of the next psychotic episode (63), yet she believed the potent lithium pills he was taking were "the equivalent of a vitamin pill" (64). At one point, she was calling him as often as four times a day at the hospital (86, 87). In 1984, a voice told Kappler, "You're going to kill yourself in an automobile accident. You have to do this. There is no choice" (85). The voice threatened harm to his family if he didn't follow directions. Near his home, at a speed of between sixty-five and eighty miles per hour, he plowed into the rear of a car. Miraculously, the woman driving was uninjured, and Kappler, who impacted the windshield, sustained only a fractured sternum. His story of record to the police was that the accelerator had stuck; he told his insurance
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