Robert Sepe, owner of Healthy ‘N Fit supplement company, brutally murdered his girlfriend Janette Carlucci, beating her so badly with a metal baseball bat that she had to be identified through dental records (”Corlandt man charged with bludgeoning girlfriend gets new lawyer,” April 8 ).

Because of the brutality of the crime and the fact that Sepe’s company sells supplements such as Advanced Steroidal Complex, and Anabolic Muscle, observers have wondered whether steroid abuse was a factor.

The media is trying too hard to demonize anabolic steroids nowadays. Even in the absence of evidence of steroid use, the desire for a “roid rage” explanation has begun. The suggestion that the brutality of a crime likely resulted from steroid use is a reflection of the level of steroid hysteria in our society.

Never mind that there are no controlled scientific studies of “roid rage” and that the scientific evidence is mostly unsupportive of a relationship between anabolic steroids and aggression.

(Thanks to Inside Bodybuilding for story.)