Egan: The murderer as victim in Borutski's upside down world

Basil Borutski as the fourth victim, silently simmering in the glass prisoner box.
Of all the disturbing narratives that emerged at his seven-week trial, this was the most incredulous, in a jaw-dropping way — these terrible murders had somehow happened to HIM, a man without “a bad bone in my body.”
It’s hard to imagine how a man who admitted killing three women in cold blood could actually make things worse for survivors, but he found a way. After a voluntary confession t