Murder with a twist

I thought it was very interesting subject. There were definitely some spooky coincidences.
Poor Carl had a very tragic life. Under the spotlight from an early age with his reincarnation claims;
resulting in him being bullied at school due to the publicity;then ultimately having his young life cut
short, by someone who became one of the most violent prisoners in the system today. Very sad.

I always try to keep an open mind on subjects, then make a judgement on what evidence is presented.
Though when it stated there was a book and newspaper reports about Carl's claims; my immediate thoughts
were of the Lutz family in America in the late 70s. Their (fabricated) story of their haunted house became
the Amityville Horror (a book then film) Around the same time I remember an old Hammer House of Horror episode from 1980/1
'The house that bled to death' which had a similar theme to the Amityville Horror. Scared me when i was a youngster!
Plus there was a big selling 70s book/film 'the reincarnation of Peter Proud' about past life experience.
Could it just be that Carl's family had exploited him as a youngster, fed him information and tried to make some money?
Or was he an attention seeking child, who got the reincarnation story from somewhere and his family believed him?

My guess would be it was one of the two above theories.
Definitely an interesting and tragic case though.