Beyond
animal cruelty
Information
by IMOM, Inc.
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These
actual cases from police files demonstrate why people who abuse
animals should be punished. If these perpetrators had been
stopped when they abused animals perhaps many human lives would have
been saved.
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John
Malvo, serial sniper who terrorized the Washington, DC area in
October 2002 was convicted in December 2003.
"Malvo told Cornell [psychologist] he liked to take a
slingshot and hunt stray cats during his childhood in Jamaica.
Animal cruelty in one's youth can be an indicator of future violent
tendencies, Cornell said."
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Russell
Weston Jr., tortured and killed 12 cats, by burning, cutting their
tails, paws, ears off, put toxic chemicals in their eyes, blinding
them, forcing them to eat poison, hanging them from trees; the noose
loose enough to create a slow and painful death, as the cat/kitten
struggles to free itself as the noose gets tighter with each
attempt. Later killed 2 officers at our Nation's Capitol.
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Jeffery
Dahmer loved to dissect animals (he learned this in school).
Later he dissected boys, and kept their body parts in the
refrigerator. Murdered 17 men.
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On
May 21, 1998 in Springfield, Oregon; 15-year-old Kip Kinkel set a
live cat on fire and dragged the innocent creature through the main
street of town. He walked into his high school cafeteria and opened
fire on his classmates. Two classmates were killed and 22 others
injured, four critically. Later that day, police found his parents
shot to death in their home.
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Albert
De Salvo, the "Boston Strangler," would place a dog and
cat in a crate with a partition between them. After starving
the animals for several days, he would remove the partition and
watch them kill each other. He raped and killed 13 women by
strangulation. He would often pose the bodies in a shocking manner
after their murders.
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Richard
Allen Davis set numerous cats on fire. He killed all of Polly Klaus'
animals before abducting & murdering Polly Klaus, aged 12, from
her bedroom.
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Eleven-year-old
Andrew Golden, 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson, tortured and killed
dogs. A friend of Golden stated that "he shoots dogs all the
time with a .22." On March 24, 1998, in Jonesboro,
Arkansas; Golden and Johnson shot and killed four students and one
teacher during a fire drill at their school.
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Prior
to committing multiple murders, Luke Woodham, age 16, wrote in his
personal journal that he and an accomplice beat, burned and tortured
his dog, Sparkle, to death. Woodham said it was "true
beauty." He poured liquid fuel down his dog's throat and set
fire to her neck, both inside and outside. On 10/1/1997, Woodham
stabbed his mother to death and then went to his high school where
he shot and killed two classmates -- two girls aged 16 and 17, and
injured seven others. In June 1998, Woodham was found guilty of
three murders and seven counts of aggravated assault. He was
sentenced to three life sentences and an additional 20 years for
each assault.
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Theodore
Robert Bundy was forced to witness animal cruelty by his
grandfather. He later killed thirty-three women.
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Michael
Cartier pulled numerous rabbit's legs out of their sockets when he
was four years old and threw a kitten through a closed window. He
went on to shoot Kristin Lardner three times in the head, killing
her.
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Henry
Lee Lucas killed numerous animals and had sex with their corpses. He
killed his mother, common law wife and an unknown number of people.
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Edward
Kemperer cut up two cats. He later killed his grandparents,
his mother and seven other women.
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Richard
Speck threw a bird into a ventilator fan. Killed eight women.
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Randy
Roth taped a cat to a car's engine and used an industrial sander on
a frog. Killed two of his wives and attempted to kill a third.
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David
Richard Davis shot and killed two healthy ponies, threw a wine
bottle at a pair of kittens and hunted with illegal methods.
Murdered his wife, Shannon Mohr Davis, for insurance money.
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Peter
Kurten, the Dusseldorf Monster, tortured dogs, and practiced
bestiality while killing the animal. Murdered or attempted to murder
over 50 men, women and children.
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Richard
Trenton Chase, "The Vampire Killer of Sacremento," bit the
heads off birds, drained animals for their blood, killed animals for
their organs, and later killed six people in random attacks. One
police officer who was at the scene of the first murder, confessed
to having nightmares about the crime or months afterwards.
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The
Kobe Killer, an as yet unnamed 15-year-old boy in Japan, beheaded a
cat ad strangled several pigeons. Decapitated 11-year-old Jun Hase,
and battered to death a 10-year-old girl with a hammer, and
assaulted three other children in separate attacks.
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Richard
William Leonard's grandmother forced him to kill and mutilate cats
and kittens when he was a child. He later killed Stephen
Dempsey with a bow and arrow. He also killed Ezzedine Bahmad by
slashing his throat.
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Tom
Dillion murdered people's pets. He shot and killed Jamie
Paxton, aged 21; Claude Hawkins, aged 49; Donald Welling, aged 35;
Kevin Loring, aged 30; and Gary Bradely, aged 44.
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At
9 years old, Eric Smith strangled a neighbor's cat. At 13
years old, he bludgeoned four-year-old Derrick Robie to death. Smith
lured the little boy into the woods, choked him, sodomized him with
a stick, then beat him to death with a rock.
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When
Jack Bassenti's dog had puppies, he buried all but one of them
alive. He later raped and murdered three women.
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David
Berkowitz, "Son of Sam," poisoned his mother's parakeet
out of jealousy. He later shot thirteen young men and women. Six
people died and at least two suffered permanent disabilities.
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Arthur
Shawcross repeatedly threw a kitten into a lake until the kitten
drowned from exhaustion. Killed a young girl. Then, after serving
15-1/2 years in prison, he killed 11 more women.
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Michael
Perry decapitated a neighbor's dog. He later killed his parents, his
infant nephew and two neighbors.
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Jason
Massey killed cats, dogs and cows. Killed his thirteen year old
stepsister & a fourteen year old boy.
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Patrick
Sherrill Stole neighborhood pets and encouraged his dog to attack
them. Killed 14 people at his workplace.
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Keith
Hunter Jesperson, "The Happy Face Killer," strangled a
cat. He is known to have killed at least one woman.
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Joel
Steinburg refused medical treatment for his adopted daughter Lisa's
pet rabbit when it broke its leg. He later killed her; when she was
found, Lisa had extensive bruises all over her body from repeated
abuse. He was also abusive to his wife.
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Rod
Ferrel, leader of a gang of teen "vampires". In
October of 1996, broke into an animal shelter, beat dogs, and
mutilated puppies. Before that, he had been torturing and killing
cats and dogs from the age of nine to the age of sixteen. At
the age of sixteen, he bludgeoned an elderly couple, parents of
another gang member, to death. He is now on death row.
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