Jennifer Wilson, USC prof., murder case reveals ailments in pop culture

Alleged murderer Hawes, who is accused of
stabbed Prof. Wilson multiple times, claims
to have ADHD.

This week, in Columbia, the trial of Hank Hawes began.

Hawes allegedly murdered USC Professor Jennifer Wilson in August 2011. He is accused of stabbing her multiple times. 

Wilson was a young and attractive college professor who had just been awarded tenure.

She met the reported conman Hawes on an Internet dating website. Why would a woman with so much going for her, end up on an online dating site?

After getting deeply involved with Hawes, Wilson supposedly found out that Hawes misrepresented himself as wealthy and sophisticated. And other women let Wilson know Hawes was lying and dangerous. But she, for some reason, could not shake him.

How did such a smart and pretty woman get tangled up with such a slimy character like Hawes?

But if you suggest people get to know each other, among friends or at a church social these days, you're laughed at. 

Not saying it is the case here, but “hooking up” with people who hardly know each other is more the norm these days, and championed by the experts in society as healthy and empowering for women. Yet it can have disastrous and deadly consequences.

The media never seems to focus on the reckless sexual behavior in the culture that endangers women, and in some cases men. 

As the Hawes trail unfolded this week, some other bizarre, or at least examples of some of the rot in our culture surfaced.

According to a text to Hawes from Wilson, she may have been willing to have sex with the fiendish Hawes, but she feared he would videotape her compromising herself.

“No, you might video, that worries me. Wilson said, ‘I don’t want sex tapes out on me.’”

Hawes had threatened to ruin her life and expose something embarrassing, according to The State newspaper.

What kind of perverted man are we dealing with here? And why would any woman be compelled to interact with such scum.

Hawes also, according to information from the trial, cyber stalked Wilson.

“I know you’re on Skype,” a video chat program, Hawes wrote in a text to Wilson. The next day, he texts: “You just came up on Skype again.”

And as so many on trial have become accustomed to claiming: Hawes blames his disgusting behavior on a pop culture condition. Hawes claims to have ADHD. It's a fairly recent invention that is used a lot to explain abhorrent behavior. 

Hawes tells Wilson, not long before he allegedly killed her, he just got a new prescription to treat ADHD. He says the medication gave him his “life back.” He later says: “I found my easy button.”

Wilson talks about liking the “the nice Hank.” But is that the drug-induced Hank she is depending on?

While the media and “authorities” tell us we're old-fashioned to be a bit appalled by the lack of discretion used to form relationships, the Hawes-Wilson union seems to be sick, by any standard. 

But sadly this kind of corruption of mind is more and more common in “modern” society.

Unfortunately too many of these “alliances” are ending up tragically. And no one is even guessing the answer may have some basis in prudence and morality.