Why do people say that a murderer, a robber, a terrorist was a “good” person?
Is it because we don’t know what good means anymore?
(Note, after looking for the murderer=good thing I remembered reading, I found an article on murder in Victorian Ireland. He was a good man, his neighbors said, was a common refrain.)
They are saying that was their perception of him. He seemed nice and maybe did good things for people. They didn’t know he was eating children in his basement.