The World's Most Evil Psychopaths: Horrifying True-Life Cases (23 page)

Under ‘A Little About Me’, he writes, ‘16 years of accumulated rage suppressed by nothing more than brief glimpses of hope, which have all but faded to black. I can feel the urges within slipping through the cracks, the leash I can no longer hold...’

He follows this with his ‘Favorite Things’:

‘moments where control becomes completely unattainable...

‘times when maddened psycho paths [sic] briefly open the gates to hell, and let chaos flood through...

‘those few individuals who care enough to reclaim their place...’

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