http://www.amazon.com/My-Brother-Ron-Personal-Deinstitutionalization-ebook/dp/B008E0LRQE#_
In most states it's damn near impossible to get someone institutionalized even if you want to.
I have no doubt that it is true that it is VERY difficult to put a real looney away. Nowadays nothing is ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ with someone. The street is the asylum and we are the prisoners trying to avoid such maniacs. IMO, people with the financial resources to get as much intervention as they can- and do not- are criminally responsible and should be sued into destitution.
At the VERY least the parents/mother could have kept her maniac secure. Yes I’m talking home incarceration, severe restrictions to others( only doctors) NO weapons, controls on computers.If he can’t live in an institution your home BECOMES ONE-and you live in it with him. That is your responsibility,IMO. Once the obsession with death and killing was known its serious lockdown time if you want to keep your Charles Manson and pretend he’s Forrest Gump. IN your home,in a secure room,in the very conditions he needs to prevent his being a danger to anyone but you. If you want to be ‘us against the world’ then live like that and DO NOT allow him any more freedom than you would a dangerous, rabid animal. Keep your private nightmare-and monster-private. Do not foist it upon society in some insane attempt to make it ‘normal’. It can’t be, and it can only spread it’s insanity to others. In this case with murder.