Mt. Whitney Portal Store & Hostel Forums General Mt. Whitney Portal Store Message Board Schulman Grove Arsonist. Anyone Know His Sentence?

The arsonist who vandalized all the cars outside of Independence, lit the Schulman Grove vistor center on fire, attempted arson at Barcroft Lab ane was caught in Bishop nearly a year ago, does anyone know what the final sentence was?

Appreciate knowing.

Thanks

he was deemed "not competent"

http://www.inyoregister.com/content/view/120824/27/

This may be a big stretch, but has anyone considered the possibility that his many high altitude climbs without oxygen, including Everest, may have caused some of his brain irregularities? I have wondered this for about a year now and maybe Bob R or some of the many MDs who read this forum could
give an opinion. I'm asking since I am not an MD or well informed on this topic and am curious.

You hear about high altitude climbers who experience lack of oxygen problems and perhaps this would lead to brain damage?

I don't know the answer but.....

There was a documentary with Ed Viesturs and friends to examine the affects of altitude with various test being performed as they climbed Everest. In the documentary they noted some brain damage on a MRI of Ed's brain but not enough for a noticeable outward behavior. This suggest long-term brain damage is possible. Here is some info about the film.

"Because it is there" is the reason so many men and women have risked death to climb Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on earth. NOVA follows a scientific investigation of high-altitude physiology in Everest: The Death Zone, which examines the biological and psychological changes experienced by a group of climbers during their ascent.

No. While not an unreasonable concept, the kind of global damage sustained by oxygen deprivation (and there are many examples of this, from many activities), would be similar to Alzheimer's Dementia, with a loss of reasoning ability and the ability to make any kind of decision. Such folks with dementia would not be able to put together the plan to take the actions done in this case. I've never heard of an Alzheimer patient going on a directed rampage, and we have around 5 million in the US.

The bizarre illusory thinking present in schizophrenia is quite different. I think it was well portrayed in the excellent film "A Beautiful Mind"