I think you're giving the psycho/sociopath personality too much credit. The true sociopath individual doesn't give a hoot about what steps you take, they're only fulfilling their own desires. Getting caught doesn't enter into it. They don't think that they're ever gonna get caught and they don't really care if they do.

The biggest issue that law enforcement has in dealing with true psycho/sociopath individuals is when they try to treat them like "ordinary criminals" and expect them to behave like an "ordinary criminal" would behave.

Read "Killer on the road" by James Ellroy, he writes a very compelling story of a psycho/sociopath, when you strip away the overly dramatic, it's a pretty good picture of how such a person thinks. And for that matter, the television series, "Law and Order, Criminal Intent" has a lead character played by Vincent D'Onofrio who is a border line schizophrenic personality, who while not sociopathic, shows how a mentally disabled person simply thinks differently then the majority of people think.

John E