Question comes as a kind of addition to one I asked awhile back. It was about having met a truly evil person. I can tell the story again if anyone is interested but as a young teen I interacted with a guy in the Aryan brotherhood from California several times.

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    I remember that thread and the guy I’m about to mention is the same guy I talked about there…

    I once played in a band with a guy who was, by all objective standards, a musical prodigy. Could play anything, wrote prolifically, was an amazing singer and overall performer. He was hilarious and fun to hang out and talk with too. Except once he got to know you and trust you, he’d let it be known that he was an unapologetic pedophile.

    He had done ten years previously not just for possessing CP but for using his underage niece to make and distribute his own (that’s where the violence comes in). He was on lifetime supervision and he was convinced that making it big as a musician would be his ticket out of that and doing whatever the fuck he wanted to again. He seemed to genuinely not understand the evil of what he was doing and insisted it was a perfectly natural thing and blamed the system for all his problems.

    Few years after we parted ways I found out he got caught hoarding more CP and they put him away for life.

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    I went to high school with a psychopath. He was a friend of an idiot friend. He beat up a quiet kid on the bus once and later tried to steal my car. He disappeared for awhile, and I later learned he’d been locked up. I searched him on the internet a few months ago because I had a feeling he’d be in prison.

    Yep. He raped a girl, beat up her boyfriend, and was being hunted down for burglary when the cops cornered him (I think on the rooftop of a 2-story house). Then he said some stupid line and backflipped off the roof.

    After awhile in prison he managed to get hold of the tool the prison guards use to slide the food trays while the new guard was in the cell with him. He beat the guard to death with it, then acted casual about it. There’s a video of the aftermath.

    So he’s on death row now, trying to play the Jesus card.

    There’s a shitty Amazon doc about him, name is Billy Tracy.

    EDIT: When you mentioned knowing a truly evil person, that’s what Billy is. I could see it in his eyes from the moment I met him, just a void. When I searched him up his parents weren’t mentioned much, but what was there seemed to indicate they were as baffled as anyone about how he turned out. Maybe, who knows.

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    I was a big time coke head. The kind that when I call dude answers. And I knew the same dude for like 15 years as he climbed up. I wouldn’t say I was the bullk of his business but I will say I was on of those clients you don’t want going to the compition.

    I say to explain these next situation.

    Dude would occasionally be like “I’m out but I’ll tell MY guy you’re coming over he’ll help you out.”

    Domingo over in this is a major trap house. Very well trained pit bulls all around. Guns left haphazardly around. Big guns. And a girl on a stripper pole every time who wasn’t chained but clearly didn’t want to be there. Ever seen the last part of requiem for a dream? The girl had those dead eyes.

    I didn’t like going over there. I’m sure my dude has done some shit to rise. That’s fine.

    I guess there’s a level to “this guy does bad things” that I’m okay with. Past that line… honestly if it wasn’t for the girl on a poll I think I would’ve been cool with him.

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        When you do coke things are like Harry Potter. “I’ve never been down this street before… has this always been here”

        And the big dude just smiles and taps on like three bricks and a run down trailer with way too many cars at it appears. Loaded with drugs.

        The next week you back and the whole street is just gone.

        Another thing like Harry Potter is the wand shop. Sometime your coke guy hands you a baseball cap and said “don’t take this off while you wait in the car bro. No what you doing! Wear it like this, damn!” so you are assigned a hat specifically for you and trained how to use it.

        Instead of “magical beasts” it’s random pit bulls everywhere wandering loose. Who owns these dogs?.

        And you know when Harry first visit gringots vault

        I’ve also seen people pick up packages and “ it’s best you don’t tell nobody what you just saw”

        I’m going to keep adding to this and make it a copy pasta

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    Yeah I worked with criminally insane men for two years before moving on to normal acute psychiatry. For the most part they’re just sad and petty. There was only one that ever truly gave me the heebie jeebies and one after in regular acute. In both cases though I did not know what they had done until later; in the moment there was just this instant visceral NOPE feeling.

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      That’s so unsettling. I would want a very detailed understanding of the person and their past before I was in the room with them. Thanks for sharing.

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        a) most of the time you actually don’t want to know. You take precautions with everybody, half the time knowing just makes it harder to pass dinner trays.

        b) they also just. hire brand new adults with highschool diplomas. give them a two week crash course in psychiatry. then just. “Here’s the criminally insane men!”

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      … "after Fritzl convinced her and the authorities that they were foundlings each time. "

      Case closed Sergeant, it’s just another foundling, they seem to be plentiful in these parts. WTF!?

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        That case is a bottomless pit of vileness. Don’t try to understand it. Unless you want to, in which case I digress.

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      I disagree with your initial statement but I wont have the same unproductive argument again. Pretty fucking horrific stuff you were around. Thank you for the contribution

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    Not that I’m aware of. I’ve known some shady characters, a few went to jail for robbing a gas station. I don’t know of anyone being extremely violent, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

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    I met a murderer before he murdered his girlfriend (maybe it was fiance but it was at least girlfriend). I barely remember him. Boring guy normally.

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      Creepy that its often said that “X person seemed so normal” or whatever version of that statement. Then they turn out to be horrific individuals.

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        Oh no no. Make no mistake, if someone at the time asked “whose the top five people you think would murder someone who come to this store” he’d be in there.

        Boring though.

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        So it happened twenty years ago, turns out he was a serial killer (fucking news to me) and it wasn’t even girlfriend it was women who rejected his ass.

        Good thing I was a kid then and he ignored me or I mighta been in trouble.

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    I worked with a guy who cut the head off a child molester in prison. He was ok but a bit short tempered.