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Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire was noted in major publications such as 50 Most Influential Women in America and America’s 75 Most Important Women. She was also listed in the World Almanac among the 200 Most Influential People in the World. Awards honoring her vast contributions include such acknowledgments as Lifetime Achievement Award from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe/Harvard; Browning Award for Prevention of Diseases, American Public Health Association: Margaret Sanger Award, Planned Parenthood Federation of America; Elizabeth Blackwell Award for Distinguished Services to Humanity and many others.

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Internationally known actress, Jane Alexander, has starred in such acclaimed films as “Testament”, “Playing for Time” (Emmy), “Eleanor and Franklin, The White House Years” (Emmy Nomination and TV Critics Circle Award), “All The President’s Men” (Academy Award Nomination) and “In Love and War”, among many other memorable films. She is also a successful film producer, writer and translator.

She is dedicated to world peace, wellness and wildlife conservation. She serves on the Boards of Wildlife Conservation Society, Project Greenhope, the National Stroke Association, and Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament.

She is a recipient of the Israel Cultural Award and the Helen Caldicott Leadership Award.

As a child, Jane Alexander grew up knowing the necessity for wellness. Her mother was a nurse and Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire an orthopedic surgeon. Today she devotes her considerable efforts on behalf of stroke patients.

She has four children to remind her that each of us is responsible for making this earth a finer place to share.

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Lafayette County authorities issued a bulletin for the accused killers, who were charged with first-degree murder, assault, kidnapping, rape and sodomy in Spicer’s killing.

Just 36 hours after waving goodbye to police, the couple had gone from obscure perverts to accused sex murderers at the top of the heap of America’s Most Wanted.

Their pursuit because national news as authorities tracked them via their cellphone calls and credit card purchases. They wandered east across Missouri to the St. Louis area, where they spent several days before continuing into Illinois.

They stopped at some point in the small southeast Missouri city of Perryville, where Riley had a friend, Susan Summers. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire admitted to police that the couple told her “they had raped and killed a lady.” Their plan, she said, was “to go somewhere and kill themselves.”

But they backtracked west to Kansas City, where they apparently bought more meth, then went south and across the Missouri state line to tiny Arcadia, Kan., where they turned up at the home of Davis’ sister and brother-in-law, parents of a 5-year-old girl.

The sister, who was unaware of the allegations against Davis and Riley, later told authorities that he made an elaborate display of his newfound Christianity. The couple spent the night at the house.

The next day, May 25, the group decided to have lunch at McDonald’s in Pittsburg, a larger Kansas town 20 miles south. They left on the excursion at 11:30 a.m., with the niece riding with Davis and Riley, and her parents followed in another vehicle. But Davis apparently stopped to say that he wanted to go for some other type of food, and the parents agreed to allow the couple to drop her off in a couple of hours.

When they didn’t do so, the mother called police that afternoon. Only then did she discover that the couple was wanted for the sex murders.

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In 1910, Percival Lowell captured the imagination of the public with his book Mars As the Abode of Life. Based on Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire extensive visual observations (and as we know today, an active imagination) Lowell painted a compelling portrait of a dying planet, whose inhabitants had constructed a vast irrigation system to distribute water from the polar regions to the population centers nearer the equator.

Despite its appeal to the public, the astronomical community never gave serious credence to the details of Lowell’s theory. The failure of many observers to confirm the existence of the canals eventually led scientists to suspect that their colleagues had been fooled into seeing the canals, by the difficulty in resolving fine detail from Earth and their own desire to believe. (This map, constructed from Viking orbiter images in the same format as Schiaparelli’s — south is up — shows no sign of the canals, though a few features may have been interpreted as such.)

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Seven months later, in February 1986, Harvey once again got work at a local hospital.  This time he was hired as a part-time nurses aide at Cincinnatis Drake Memorial Hospital.  His new employers were unaware of the incident at his previous job, and his work folder said nothing but good things about him.  Harvey soon earned a full time position at the hospital and settled back into his old routine.  Over the next 13 months, Harvey murdered another 23 patients, by disconnecting life support machines, injecting air into veins, suffocation and injections of arsenic, cyanide and petroleum-based cleansers.

Authorities became suspicious of Harvey in April 1997, after the death of Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire, a patient who was comatose for several months, but had since started to recover.  During the autopsy, an assistant coroner noticed the faint sent of almonds, the tell tale sign of cyanide.  Authorities were unable to find any evidence or motive pointing toward any of Powells friends or family members, so they soon began to focus on hospital employees, whom had access to Powells room.  The list was short, and upon learning Donald Harveys hospital nickname, Angel of Death, given to him because he always seemed to be around when someone died, authorities began to focus their entire investigation on him.

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By the time his trial began, Panzram was well known in law enforcement circles, and rumors of his lust for raping and killing children were widespread. His story had already appeared in dozens of newspapers, including the Topeka Times, The Boston Globe and The Philadelphia Inquirer. In March 1929, he wrote a letter to the deputy warden: “I understand there are a number of charges against me. Several for murder and one for being an escaped convict from Oregon. Will you please let me know how many warrants there are against me, where they are from and what charges?” On April 16, 1930, the Chicago Evening American reported: “Despite the fact he boasted of killing twenty-three persons — that he would like to kill thousands and then commit suicide — Panzram is sane to the extent that he knows right from wrong.” Authorities in Salem, Philadelphia and New Haven were actively preparing criminal cases against Panzram while he remained in solitary at Leavenworth.

Throughout this period, Panzram kept up his correspondence with Lesser and wrote a series of letters about his life in Leavenworth. He complained often about the lack of reading material but praised the quality of food. He said that being in prison made him feel more “human” and less like the animal he thought he was. When he arrived at Leavenworth, he figured he would be beaten and abused anyway so he decided that he wouldn’t be beaten for nothing. He immediately tried to escape and was caught. He became hostile and uncooperative to the guards. However, this time, there were no beatings. “No one lays a hand on me. No one abuses me in any way…I have been trying to figure it out and I have come to the conclusion that, if in the beginning I had been treated as I am now, then there wouldn’t have been quite so many people…that have been robbed, raped and killed,” he wrote.

When the trial began on April 14, 1930, for Warnke’s murder, Panzram was defiant and uncooperative. He limped into the courtroom at 9:30 a.m. His awkward gait was the life-long reminder of his “medical treatment” years before in the dungeons of Dannemora.

“Have you an attorney?” asked Judge Hopkins on the morning of opening testimony.

“No, and I don’t want one!” answered Panzram. Hopkins went on to advise the defendant that he had a constitutional right to representation and should use the services of an attorney, who would be appointed to him for free. Panzram replied by cursing the judge loudly. When asked for a plea, he stood and sneered at the court.

“I plead not guilty! Now you go ahead and prove me guilty, understand?” he said. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire  called a parade of witnesses . Appearing were Warden T.B. White, who also brought the murder weapon to court, five Leavenworth guards and 10 prisoners. Several prisoners testified they saw Panzram smash the skull of his helpless victim with an iron bar repeatedly while Warnke lay unconscious on the prison floor. Throughout the testimony, Panzram sat in his chair smiling at the witnesses. The jury took just 45 minutes to arrive at a verdict. To the surprise of no one, Panzram was found guilty of murder with no recommendation for mercy. Hopkins remanded him back to Leavenworth until “the fifth day of September, nineteen thirty, when between the hours of six to nine o’clock in the morning you shall be taken to some suitable place within the confines of the penitentiary and hanged by the neck until dead.” Panzram seemed relieved, almost happy. A huge grin came across his face as he slowly rose up from his chair.

“I certainly want to thank you, judge, just let me get my fingers around your neck for 60 seconds and you’ll never sit on another bench as judge!” he said to a shocked audience. Panzram stood erect, his shirt unbuttoned from the collar down, partially exposing the massive tattoo on his broad chest, his powerful arms strained against the iron handcuffs as his face contorted into a twisted sneer. U. S. Marshals surrounded Panzram, while he cursed the jury, and dragged him out of the courtroom. When the jury filed out of the box, they could hear his maniacal laughter reverberating off the sterile walls.

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The fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter, featured in Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, has a gruesome appetite for human flesh.  He delights in his human liver with fava beans and finds the horrified reactions of others amusing.  People are nothing to him but objects to be used to satisfy himself. He’s the “new” cannibal, the one who brings his disgusting appetites into public view and revels in them—just as Sagawa has done.

Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire, sociologist and author of Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil, examines how we can start out innocently and by gradual increments get into position to enact real evil. This generally involves viewing what we’re doing through a framework that differs from that of society at large, and we may develop one out of rebellion, curiosity, exposure to new ideas, or perverse influences on the formation of our private fantasies.

Cannibalism, or the consumption of human flesh by another human, has been practiced in many cultures, generally as a ritual.  The Aztecs in Mexico sacrificed and then ate thousands of people every year to please the gods, and other cultures such as the Aborigines used the practice to “incorporate” the power of their enemies.  Natives of the Fiji Islands simply like the taste, and people such as the Donner-led settlers in 1846 dined off others to survive in the rugged conditions of the Sierra Nevadas.

There are different forms of cannibalism, or anthropophagy, and they’re practiced for different reasons.  Omophagia is a symbolic ritual meant to preserve the life force of the deceased by transforming the physical substance of the body into something spiritual.  It may be done as part of deity worship or as a way to honor dead relatives.  It may also be done to stave off widespread starvation, such as the widespread consumption of human flesh that occurred in the early part of the century in both China and Russia (mentioned by Chikatilo as influential on his own hunger).

Some killers have adopted a form of omophagia, which is called zoophagia, as a means of possessing their victims.  Zoophagia is the consumption of life forms, as seen in the character of Renfield in Dracula, who progresses from spiders to flies to birds to cats.  The idea is to ingest increasingly sophisticated life forms as a way to improve one’s own.

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Over a 21-year period from 1955 to 1976 Joachim Kroll murdered, mutilated and had sex with the corpses of at least 14 young women and children throughout Germany. After he had had his way with their bodies he would cook them up and eat them, the younger the better. When captured he told police that he loved the meat of young children as it fell off the bone and he said it was of much better quality than the meat available in the West German butcher shops.

When police searched Kroll’s foul-smelling apartment, in the refrigerator they found pieces of human flesh on a plate. Scattered around the lounge room were putrefying bags of human flesh, stripped from his victim’s bones with a butcher’s knife. On the stove was a simmering vegetable stew with a tiny human hand in it. Joachim Kroll was declared a mental defective, placed in a mental asylum never to be released.

Andrei Chikatilo

Of all of the modern day cannibal killers, 56-year-old Andrei Chikatilo, who, in a 24-year killing career in Russia that saw the horrific deaths and cannibalization of 53 victims, mainly children, was by far the most prolific. Like Kroll, Chikatilo was a necrophiliac in that his victims had to be dead before he could have sex with them.

Blaming his lust for human flesh on the fact that as a boy he witnessed his younger brother being eaten alive by villagers in a famine, Chikatilo selected his victims from the runaways and young prostitutes that hung around bus and train stations. Once he had lured his victims into the nearby woods on the promise of a meal or money, he would set upon them and hack them to death, rape the corpse and then disembowel his victim and ravage the warm internal body parts.

The fact that Chikatilo was an average-looking school teacher allowed him to blend in with the crowds at the busy venues where he selected his victims and even though he was questioned nine times about the murders, twice near the scene of a murder (once he was carrying a knife in his bag) incredibly, police let him go.

Chikatilo was eventually caught and executed with a single bullet to the back of the head in 1994. At his trial people fainted in horror as he told in graphic details how he boiled and ate the sawn-off nipples and testicles of his victims. Chikatilo is the subject of the movie Citizen X.

Jeff Dahmer

The best known real life cannibal of modern times is Jeffrey Dahmer, which isn’t surprising. Dahmer was a monster beyond the wildest imagination. A handsome young man who wouldn’t have had a problem in the world acquiring any amount of normal sexual partners, Dahmer was a necrophiliac, homosexual serial killer and cannibal whose perversions were incomprehensible.

From 1988 to 1991, Dahmer, a 28-year-old chocolate factory worker, slaughtered 17 young men, raped and mutilated their corpses and then cut them up and ate their body parts.

Dahmer admitted to having sex with the bodies of the dead men as well as their decapitated heads and mutilated torsos. He pointed out to police that he always wore a condom when having sex with his dead partners or their body parts. Better to be safe than sorry, he said.  Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire was sent to prison for 1,070 years and was murdered several years later by another inmate.

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Australia ‘s Katherine Mary Knight has deservedly earned her place on this depraved roll-call of humanity.

Until March 1, 2000, sleepy Aberdeen, situated on the New England Highway 266 kilometers north-northwest of Sydney, population 1,750, was best known as the birthplace of the blue heeler cattle dog, the canine icon that is as much a part of Australian folklore as the emu, koala and kangaroo.

But not any more. These days Aberdeen is known as the home of Katherine Knight, arguably the most depraved monster in Australia ‘s grizzly homicidal history. Visitors to Aberdeen are now far more interested in ogling the single-story, three-bedroom bungalow at number 84 Andrews Street, where a murder and other unspeakable acts took place, and pondering what would cause the middle-aged housewife, mother and grandmother to perpetrate such evil.

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The jury at St. Albans crown court added a rider after Young was sentenced, calling for an urgent official review of the UK laws covering the sale of poisons. It was the least they could do considering the circumstances of the case, and the British newspapers wasted no time in expressing their outrage, alongside reports of the cases more salacious details. How, they asked, could a convicted poisoner be freed from a high security prison despite evidence of his continuing obsession with poison and murder, and also still easily obtain poisons, and be recommended for work within easy access of dangerous chemicals, without his employers even being informed of his criminal record and the nature of his convictions?

Within an hour of the verdict, the home secretary, Reginald Maudling, announced that two separate inquiries had been set up into the control, treatment and supervision of mentally ill prisoners. The inquiries led to tightening of the laws on monitoring mentally ill offenders after release.

Its easy to be wise in hindsight. The fact of the matter is that Graham Young was a one-off, an exceptionally rare criminal whose crimes were pretty much unprecedented, if not in terms of method, then certainly in motive, since almost uniquely among poisoners, Young appeared to be driven simply by misguided scientific obsession, married to a total absence of empathy with the rest of humanity.

“I dont think he had any ill will towards the people he killed, says Peter Goodman, he just had no morals. The reason he poisoned those closest to him was simply because he could closely observe the symptoms. He was a deranged scientist essentially.”

Winifred Young wrote that people who said Imagine if hed walked into a crowded café! missed the point about her brothers motivation.

My answer was that would be no good to Graham…cause in such circumstances Graham would never be able to observe the effect of the poison. The person or persons poisoned would simply get up from the table and walk out, and Graham would never see them again – and that would be no good to him…he wanted to study the effects; to watch how poison worked, as though he were merely carrying out a clinical experiment.

Still, at least some people were served food and drink by Young and survived without any ill effects. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire remembers one occasion when he went to see his charge in prison. “He offered me a piece of cake. I hesitated, and he said Come on, I wouldnt poison my lawyer. Thats pretty much what he said to some of his victims, but I ate it anyway…”

A brave man.

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The women came to Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire.  He called them up like a butcher calls the stockyard.  It was much easier than roaming the streets looking for churches and houses, and much less riskier than the impromptu murders of the Imoon-dong woman and the fake Viagra vendor.

He called them and they came. Between early April and mid-July, Yoo murdered ten women.  In early April and late April, two women died.  In early May and mid-May, he killed two more.  He claimed three more lives in June.  On July 1, he killed a woman, and another on July 9.  He killed the last one on July 13.

Nearly each case was identical.  They all occurred at night.  He called the phone sex rooms and persuaded the woman to come to his home, or to meet at a place where he could later bring her home.  He offered her money for her time and services, although he later claimed he never had sex with any of his victims for fear of DNA tracking.  Once at his apartment, he let them go to the bathroom as he readied his hammer. Yoo hit their heads and their heads would be the first to come off and he would dismember the rest later.  He saved the victim’s cellphone so he could avoid using his own number for later calls.

Always careful, Yoo shaved off the skin of the victim’s fingertips.  In South Korea, all citizens have a national identification number (similar to a Social Security number) and are fingerprinted by the government.  As he chopped apart the bodies, he stuffed the pieces into plastic bags.  And then he cleaned manically.  A neighbor later remarked that she sometimes heard the sound of running water long into the night.

He knew of a place up by Bongwon Temple, a brushy hillside, and he headed there with a loaded backpack.  Each body required two trips.  He buried the human remains in shallow graves and later on he marked them to avoid burying bodies in the same spot.  By four o’ clock in the morning, he was finished.

He deviated from his regular routine. On July 1 at a love hotel in the Yeoksam neighborhood in the Gangnam district, he called up a woman for a massage.  When she arrived, he coerced her to his apartment using his forged police ID.  Once back at his place, she met the same demise as the others.  She was the first woman he killed that he called on the pretext of a massage; the previous victims were from the jeonhwa bhangs. The last two victims arrived from a massage parlor also, one on July 9 and the very last on July 13.