rehabilitation, it is also a model for gaming the system. james st. james was never insane, odd name to choose. he was never insane, he planned to kill them. but americans lend second chances, those that know to trigger the empathy of fools. only the sane use the insanity defense. where does a demon like this go? to the campus lounge, that bottomless pit of deadly relativism that welcomes feinds from the underground. a mass murderer ends up running the psych department. he is probably the sanest professor they ve got. bob, bob, bob, it s the academics. this guy should be dead. he should be dead. this one could not have been teed upor you. it s perfect. i will say this in the guy s defense. he was 15 when this happened. i think there may have been some circumstances we don t know about, and the guy was yeah, he is a killer.
through the small town and made headlines around the country. the next year james wolcott was tried as an adult but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. seven years after that, in 1974, he was deemed sane and set free. after that, wolcott seemed to just disappear. until a texas newspaper reporter tracked him down here in the central illinois town of decatur where he s been teaching psychology. at millikin university for the past 27 years. here he is now. his name is dr. james st. james. he s the head of the psych department at millikin and a student favorite. he s very intelligent. he s almost a genius. he could lecture for hours without notes. and he just knows everything off the top of his head. reporter: some people are upset st. james didn t tell the university about his past when he was hired. decatur city councilman jerry dawson told the local newspaper, quote, if i were a parent and my kids were going to millikin,
he had been sniffing glue the weeks before he murdered them. the story sent shockwaves through the small town and made headlines around the country. the next year james walcott was tried as an adult, but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. seven years after that, in 1974, he was deemed sane and set free. after that wohl cot seemed to just disappear until a texas newspaper reporter tracked him down here in the central illinois town of decatur where he s been teaching psychology at mill i kin university for the past 27 years. here he is now, his name is dr. james st. james, the head of the psych department at mill i kin, and a student favorite. very intelligent, he can lecture for hours without notes. he just knows everything off the top of his head. reporter: some people are upset saying james didn t tell the university about his past,
just disappear until a texas newspaper reporter tracked him down here in the central illinois town of decatur, where he s been teaching psychology at millikin university for the past 27 years. here he is now. his name is dr. james st. james. he s the head of the psych department at millikin and a student favorite. he s very intelligent. he s almost a genius. he could lecture for hours without notes and he just know scenarios everything off the top of his head. reporter: some people are upset st. james didn t tell the university about his past when he was hired. decatur citi councilman told the local flup, if i were a parent and my kids were going to millikin, that s something i would want to know. the university though is standing by st. james saying, given the traumatic experiences of his childhood, dr. st. james effort to rebuild his life and obtain a successful professional career have been remarkable.
get him. he felt like it was a self-defense move. so as we mentioned, he ultimately this goes to trial. he goes to this hospital. deemed sane. connect the dots for me, ann marie. how does he go from being this mental patient and killing his family to being a pretty well respected psychology chair of a department? sure. when he was at rus k, rusk had a partnership program with steven f. austin university in texas. we presume he took some courses. he was releasted in 1974. in 1976 he received a bachelor s degree as james wolcott. we found he received a master s degree as james st. james in 1980 in psychology. that was also at a texas university. it was at that point that he when he decided to take on a doctor ral program. he went to the university of illinois at champaign. he told me that was one of the top half dozen colleges in the world for the kind of program that he wanted to be involved