Warning signs:
There seems to be a common factor that is usually uncovered after individuals commit senseless acts of violence, usually against strangers. That common factor is abuse of animals, or better known as animal cruelty. Here is some food for though, you draw your own conclusions. He are 23 reasons why I believe in the right to keep and bare arms.
Albert DeSalvo: Serial Killer and Rapist
The self-confessed "Boston Strangler" who killed thirteen women in 1962 and 1963, and sentenced to life imprisonment on unrelated charges of armed robbery, assault, and sex offenses involving four women, had, in his youth, trapped dogs and cats in orange crates and shot arrows through the boxes
Brenda Spencer: Mass Murderer
Fired forty shots from a rifle at arriving San Diego school children, fatally wounding two and injuring nine others. During the subsequent investigation, neighbors informed police that Ms. Spencer had repeatedly abused dogs and cats, often by setting their tails on fire.
Carroll Edward Cole: Serial Killer
One of the most prolific killers in modern history, was executed in December of 1985 for five of the thirty-five murders of which he was accused. Mr. Cole said that his first act of violence as a child was to strangle a puppy.
James Huberty: Mass Murderer
In 1984, Huberty was shot by police after killing twenty-one children and adults at a McDonalds restaurant in San Ysidro, California. As a teenagers, Mr. Huberty had been accused of having shot his neighbor's dog with an airgun.
Jeffrey L. Dahmer: Serial Killer, Sexual Deviant
Dahmer confessed to killing, dismembering and, in some cases, cannibalizing, 17 men and boys. As a child, Dahmer impaled frogs, decapitated dogs, and staked cats in trees in his backyard. Dahmer was convicted to death but before the sentence was carried out, he was killed by another inmate in 1994.
Ted Bundy: Serial Killer, Rapist
Bundy killed numerous females who looked like a woman for which he had a passion. In the 1970's he brought fear to college campuses in many states after killing 3 women in the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University. He was ultimately convicted of two killings, but is suspected of murdering over 40 females, primarily in the northwest. During his childhood he witnessed his father's brutality toward animals and he himself tortured animals. Bundy was executed in Florida
Richard Allen Davis: Accused Killer & Rapist
Davis was convicted of kidnapping of 12-year-old Polly Klass from her home and rapping and strangling her. As a 14-year-old he set cats on fire and used dogs as targets to practice knife-throwing. In 1993 he was charged with the shooting death of Marlene Voris 20 years ago. "When he was little it was animals. When he got bigger it was people," said Zak Backet a neighbor.
Michael Echols, Jessie Misskelley, Jr., and Charles Jason Baldwin: Murders
These three teenage boys were arrested in 1993 for the brutal murder of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis. The three young boys were lured into the weeds, beaten into unconsciousness, one was sexually mutilated, another raped and all three killed. For some time prior to the killing, the three teenagers were involved in satanic-type rituals. During an initiation ceremony, they killed dogs, skinned them, and ate their flesh. Echols was also carrying a head of a cat with him.
Earl Kenneth Shriner: Sexual Predator, Killer, and Rapist
Shriner used threats to lure a 7-year-old boy into a wooded are in Washington state where he raped him, cut off his penis, choked him, stabbed him in the back and neck, and left him for dead. At the age of 16, he confessed to the killing of a teen-age girl. Police say he "was a man who put firecrackers in the anuses of dogs and strung up cats." He was committed to a state mental hospital after several incidents, including the slaughter of nearly two dozen chickens.
Eric Smith: Adolescent Killer
When Eric was 13 years old, he bludgeoned 4-year-old Derrick Robic to death and was charged with murder. Four years prior to the killing of Derrick, Smith killed the neighbor's cat with a garden hose. There are no specific reasons why he killed the little boy or the cat.
Thomas Lee Dillion: Murderer and Suspected Serial Killer
Dillion is said to be a serial killer. He admitted to the shooting of Gary Bradly in 1992, while both were hunting. Dillion, an ardent hunter who also boasted of killing more than 1000 animals in illegal drive-by-shootings, is serving a life sentence in Ohio on five murder convictions.
Michael Cartier: Stalker and Murderer
In 1992, Cartier stalked and killed Kristen Lardner in Boston, Massachusetts and then killed himself. In a prior relationship, Cartier held his girlfriend's kitten under a hot shower and then shaved all its hair off. Later he hurled it through a fourth-floor window to its death.
Keith Jesperson: Serial Murderer and Rapist
Jesperson was convicted of three murders. He was dubbed the "Happy Face Killer" by authorities after he started sending neatly printed letters to the media with happy faces drawn at the top in which he boasted of his deeds. He has claimed a total of 166 victims. Jesperson attributes the onset of his compulsion to kill to his history of killing dozens of cats and other smaller animals.
Jason Massey: Murderer and Rapist
At the age of 20, Massey killed, mutilated and beheaded a thirteen-year-old girl and shot her fourteen-year-old stepbrother. The young girl had been sexually mutilated and disembowels. As a teenager, Massey often cut the heads off dogs and cats and carried them around in a rusty metal cooler. He called these animal heads his "trophies." He is also suspected of killing and mutilated a calf.
Andrew Cunanan: Spree Killer
In 1997 Cunanan was suspected of killing five people, before taking his own life on a houseboat in Miami. An ex-roommate of Cunanan's saw him gather crabs at the beach, light a match and burn the eyes out--Cunanan watched the burned area sizzle and set the crabs back out again.
Kip Kinkel: Murderer
Kip Kinkel, 15, allegedly walked into his high school cafeteria in Springfield, Oregon and opened fire on his classmates. Two classmates were killed and twenty-two others injured, four critically. Later that day, police found his parents shot to death in their home. Friends and family have indicated that Kinkel has a history of animal abuse and torture. Friends say that he often bragged about torturing and killing animals.
Michael Carneal: Murderer
Fourteen-year-old Carneal allegedly shot and killed three classmates at their school in West Paducah, Kentucky. According to another student, Carneal talked about throwing a cat into a bonfire.
Rod Ferrell, Heather Wendorf, Dana Cooper and Charity Keesee: Murderers
"Vampire cult leader" Rod Ferrell, 17, and cult members Heather Wendorf, 16, Howard Anderson, 17, Dana Cooper, 20 and Charity Keesee, 17 were arrested in connection with the bludgeoning deaths of Wendorf's parents. Media accounts include animal torture and mutilation as part of their rituals.
Three Teenagers: Murderers
In San Francisco, California, a 17-year-old, along with two 15-year-old friends were arrested in the beating death of a 15-year-old friend. Officials reported that the older boy had a history of fire starting and animal torture, including an incident at age 11 when he is reported to have thrown a cat in the air until he broke two of its legs.
"Jack": Serial Sex Offender
This 16-year-old serial sex offender in Cleveland was charged with rape and sexual battery. His other victims reportedly included and animals.
Shawn Novak: Murderer
Convicted of slashing the throats of two young neighborhood boys, Novak, 16, was sentenced to life in prison. Several years prior to the incident, friends reported that he would wear a cat's paw on a necklace and would brag about killing animals. They also reported that he showed them dead birds, cat's heads and other animal bones.
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