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“I didn’t kill the babies; the voices in my head did.”

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He told victims he was helping them flee the Nazis but that they needed an immunization shot first; instead, he murdered them and stole their belongings.

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Gerard John “GJ” Schaefer’s wrote horrifying true-crime fiction—and his “fictional” writing helped convict him of murder. He was convicted of two murders, suspected by authorities of more than two dozen, and frequently boasted that his death toll was higher than eighty—all of them women.

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My blood is spraying everywhere…and I’m still high on acid.

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I was a biology-class frog, my brain severed from my spinal column, pinned down in a steel tray, unable to move or feel.

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These new mental powers could make Wilvert Teeter rich and famous, but he didn’t care about any of that. He just wanted to know for sure what other people were thinking about him.

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She hoped that this holiday season would be the first one in ten years where the tree didn’t burn to the ground before Christmas Day.

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“It is her!” went up a shout from the crowd. “It is the miracle girl! It is the girl who can heal the sick by breaking wind!”