The boy, pictured here as a fresh-faced 15-year-old, is now known as one of the most sadistic criminals the world has ever seen.
From the very beginning, however, he was surrounded by crime.
Born to a 16-year-old mother on November 12, 1934, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the boy soon found himself in the care of his aunt and uncle in McMechen, West Virginia, at the age of four after his mother was arrested for assault and robbery and sentenced to five years in prison.
The boy no one wanted
The boy’s mother, Kathleen, committed the robbery with her older brother, Luther, who smashed a bottle over a man’s head at a gas station before the pair stole his car.
While Luther received 10 years in prison, Kathleen received a lighter sentence of half that time. She was imprisoned in the West Virginia state prison in Moundsville, with the boy regularly having to visit her, despite frequently objecting to doing so.
When Kathleen was paroled after three years, the pair moved out of town to Charleston, although by this point, the boy had started skipping classes in school.
Kathleen, now an alcoholic, would go missing for days at a time, leaving the boy with a variety of babysitters was unable to deal with the boy’s issues herself, and instead decided to send him to reform school.
However, reform school didn’t seem to suit the boy, who bounced from one to another, constantly finding himself in trouble. He would later go on to claim in an interview that, at the age of nine, he set one of his schools on fire.
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