Thread:AustinDR/@comment-6489422-20151119050024/@comment-6489422-20151125160435

If there were no witnesses and he still let Kari live when he easily could have backed her up into the house and killed her without anyone knowing, then that mitigates his pure evilness somewhat. But for all we know, there were people either out for a walk at the time or next door who could very well look and see what Syndrome was doing and call the cops on him, so Syndrome opted for the more convenient, pragmatic approach to the situation. There was no one around by the time Syndrome got killed, but that was clearly way later in the afternoon than when he got to the house in the short.