Proud To Be Cruel

Middle River is an unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, about 25 minutes from Baltimore and roughly 95 minutes from Philadelphia. The episode gives its population as 25,654. James Pietragallo explains that the area was once known as Little Appalachia, because families came down from West Virginia and the surrounding hills for factory and wartime work in Baltimore in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s and then stayed. He reads out online reviews that call the area unsafe, noisy and trashy, and gives crime figures about 50 per cent above the national average for property crime and about 25 per cent above it for violent crime.

details of the account remain covered until revealed His mother was a mountain girl from Virginia who laid bricks and worked factory shifts. His father was a shell-shocked Second World War veteran who drove a truck for Lever Brothers and, by his mother's account, beat and terrorised the children. She believed her son's problems began when his father sat on his head for some time when he was two months old. A social worker later testified that the father would cut the power at night and whisper through the heating vents that he was the devil and was coming for Freddy. He also put sleeping pills in his wife's coffee so that he could sexually abuse the couple's daughter in the bedroom Freddy shared with her.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it At fourteen he was sent to Boys Village in Prince George's County for car theft, ran away repeatedly, was moved to the Maryland Training School for Boys at Cub Hill, ran away again and wrecked a stolen car. this part of the story is covered for now He was diagnosed as schizophrenic at seventeen, later described as having borderline personality disorder, and other inmates abused and sodomised him because of his small size.

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now He escaped by hiding in a laundry basket, was recaptured at Montebello Hospital in north-east Baltimore and given five more years. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

this part of the story is covered for now He sent her 21 sexually explicit and threatening letters. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

He worked as a bricklayer in Bel Air, quit on July 12th and moved to Salisbury to live with a girlfriend, and on July 30th started a night shift at the Perdue chicken processing plant. this part of the story is covered for now In August he rented a room at the Hotel Esther in Salisbury for $60 a week. He saw his probation officer there on August 23rd. On August 25th he hitchhiked to his mother's house; she noticed his jaw was crooked and he said a car had hit him. She drove him to the Trailways terminal and he took a noon bus to Salisbury. The next day he telephoned her, talked wildly about buying an assault rifle and having a shootout with police, and threatened to kill her. She called the state police, who said nothing could be done.

On August 27th he quit his job. On August 29th he cashed his pay cheque, bought a .22 calibre semi-automatic rifle at a Salisbury gun shop for $160 and sawed down the barrel. That day he took a taxi driven by Milton Marcy, robbed him of $66, made him get into the boot and drove off; Marcy escaped by banging on the boot until a barking dog brought the police.

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He took five dollars from the wallet and the car, then bought hair dye and coloured his hair black.

On September 1st he robbed a convenience store in Salisbury and shot the clerk in the head at close range; the bullet only grazed him. On September 2nd he went to the mini mart of a Big Red petrol station, where 16-year-old Billy Winebrenner was working and his 14-year-old girlfriend Melody Pistorio was keeping him company. this part of the story is covered for now When he returned with the money the watch was at Melody's house, so he pulled out the rifle, made them fill his doctor's bag with cash and shot them both twice in the head.

An anonymous tip at about 8 p.m. led Salisbury police to follow the Festiva along US 13. details of the account remain covered until revealed He abandoned the car near Route 454A, flagged down Edward Mason, a Laurel, Delaware resident driving a black Chevrolet Beretta, and forced him north at gunpoint to a Wendy's in Smyrna, Delaware. There a shootout developed in the car park. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Mason was grazed on the finger; nobody else was hurt.

this part of the story is covered for now He said he was pissed off at the world, that it was not his responsibility to be sorry, and that he had wanted to kill in order to be killed. He led detectives to Taylor's body. He said he had almost spared Taylor because he seemed so innocent, but his twisted mind kept twisting. Of the teenagers he said they had done nothing to provoke him and had treated him perfectly well. details of the account remain covered until revealed In court he shouted at the judge, refused a lawyer and waived his preliminary hearing, and was held without bond.

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details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed In June 1992, after his lawyers presented psychiatric and corrections evidence he did not want, he made a 15-minute speech in which he said there were no innocent people, that he would murder the brats again if he could bring them back, and that he would dig up their bones and beat them to powder. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He asked that his body be donated to science. this part of the story is covered for now His last words were get on with it, adios and here it comes now. details of the account remain covered until revealed