Creepy Domestic Killers – Why Do We Hurt The Ones We Love?

Over the last few years, I have heard stories, old and new, about people being brutalized and killed by their loved ones. Generally speaking, I am having a difficult time with the idea that I could be attending parent teacher conferences, or exchanging pleasantries at the checkout with someone capable of that type of viciousness. I fail to understand what can provoke that type of rage and I've watched enough episodes of "Forensic Files", to know that it's far from easy to stab or strangle a person to death.

Discovery Times runs a series of shows entitled "Most Evil" in which a Dr. Michael Stone rates killers on a scale of 1-22 with 22 being the most evil type of killer. I think the 22 is reserved for the sickest psychopathic serial killers who get's some type of pleasure from prolonged torture and murdering of their victims. Strangely, he rates people who kill as "crimes of passion much lower on the scale, but I must say, I beg to differ.

At this time, I will take the opportunity to provide a countdown to my top five, most evil domestic killers.

5) Chris Benoit – I am sure that there is some question as to the state of his mental health over the hours that he murdered his family. The reason he ranks lowest on this, my personal list, is because he left no children behind to face this horror and because he took his own life the family the pain of a trial and society the burden of caring for him the rest of his life. I reserve the right to remove him from my list or change his place on the list if additional information is released that sheds light on his mental health.

4) Scott Peterson – It would appear that he premeditated the murder of his wife Lacey and their unborn son Connor. While some might think he is higher on the list than some of the others, he comes in number five because there were no other children besides Connor. As such, while his crime is unthinkable, at least there are no other children who must grow up knowing that their mother was murdered by their father. The creep factor in the way that he romanced Amber Frey during the searches for Lacey is off the charts and I cannot imagine how Amber must feel knowing that Scott was around her daughter.

3) OJ Simpson – The widely know story need little elaboration. I'll just say the creepiest part of this story is his children, Sidney and Justin, being forced to live with him under those circumstances.

2) Dale Peterson – For the record, I'd like to state that he is removed from the list if it isn't proven that he was responsible for wife number 3, Kathleen's murder and wife number 4, Stacie's murder. As a matter of fact, I have a theory about what happened in this case, because I NEED to believe that it isn't how it appears. Here is my alternate, more digestible theory.

• Wife number 4, Stacie killed wife number three Kathleen because although she had "won" and Drew had left his wife for her, she wasn't going to allow Kathleen to bleed Drew financially. Drew recently learns that Stacie was responsible for this, and start's using it to further control her. While Drew was possibly unaware that Stacie was responsible for Kathleen's death, he WAS responsible for having the police department to cover it up as an accident. I think it MORE likely that he would have been able to convince them to cover this up, if there was lack of convincing evidence that he had any involvement in her death, OR if there was convincing evidence that someone else was responsible. Having a murder investigation of his ex-wife's death when he had cheated on her with a teenage minor was definitely a potential career ender. Now let's be clear; The last thing I want or intend to do is slander Stacie. Do I think this is a likely or even probable scenario? Not really. Do I think it's a possible scenario? Yes. I'd rather believe that Kathleen was killed by a romantic rival than by her ex-lover and husband and the father of her children.
  

However, if it turns out that Dale, not once, but TWICE took the life of the mother of his children, forcing them to grow up with that reality, well, I think we know how creepy that is.

1) Bobby Cutts, Jr. – I hope with all my heart that this man is not guilty as accused. When this story was headline news, I used to get chills at the statements that were reportedly made by Jesse Davis and Bobby Cutts toddler son Blake. In review, if Bobby is guilty of this crime, imagine killing Blake's mother and little sister. Somehow having Blake witness his mother and soon to be little sister being murdered by his father, if that is in fact what happened, it more tragic than the murders themselves.

Dishonorable Mention - Convicted

The Menendez Brothers

Susan Smith

Andrea Yates

Dishonorable Mention – Not Convicted

Benita Jacks (Washington, DC mother who killed her four daughters and lived with their dead bodies, possibly for more than six months)

The CPS, school and other social workers in Benita Jacks community who didn't bother to care

Cesar Armando Laurean – accused of killing the young female marine (Maria Lauterbach) who accused him of rape, ONLY if the child she was carrying was in fact his as has been reported and ONLY if he killed the child, which I question. In my mind, I am wondering if he doesn't have the baby with him on the run, why my gut is telling me this, I just don't know.

Lam Luong – confessed to throwing his four kids off a bridge after arguing with his wife.

There were other stories that broke my heard this week and all I can say is whatever is happening in the air that's making people act like evil, vicious animals, I hope it passes.

On a completely separate note, I am having some sort of premonition that Gary Michael Hilton may somehow be connected to the Zodiac killer in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960's. I'm not holding myself up to be any type of psychic, it's just an expression. But something tells me this sixty-one year old man didn't start killing random strangers at sixty.