The male call handler was from Dunedin ambulance service. Bain was then transferred to a female call handler to pacify him, though he still repeated to her that all his family were dead.
David Bain's former psychiatrist Phil Brinded when cross-examined at the 2009 retrial said -
"acute stress reaction and PTSD could also be experienced by somebody who had committed a murder."
He was familiar with a study that showed 70 per cent of murderers had some sort of amnesia of the events.
Source: stuff.
But can all murderers be lumped together?
Crime of passion - man/woman loses mind jealousy, anger eg Jane Andrews
Crime of extreme emotion - shame, rage over some wrong real or imagined eg Thomas Hamilton
Crime of anger - some have a short fuse - anger managment eg guy pulls a knife on someone accidentally brushing past in a pub
Crime of insanity - the mentally ill suffering psychosis or the like
Crime under the influence drink/drugs
Had RB survived I wonder if he might have suffered amnesia?