OT - Animal abuse and human violence

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There is a direct link to animal abuse and human violence. Read on for some of this country's most heinous offenders.

School Shootings

Spencer, a 16 year-old school girl, killed two children and wounded 8 at a San Diego elementary school in 1979. She had abused dogs and cats,

often by setting their tails on fire.

Mark Lepine shot 14 women at Laval University. He slaughtered pigeons.

Luke Woodham stabbed his mother and killed two school children in Pearl, Mississippi. A diary entry stated: "I killed for the first time - the victim is a loved one - my dear dog Sparkle. He howled - it sounded almost like him. We hit it more (boys will be boys)."

Massey shot a girl, disemboweled her and her head and hands were missing. He claims to have killed 37 cats, 29 dogs and 6 cows.

Golden shot children at school. He shot his own dog which was in the hospital the week before the school shooting. He routinely shot dogs.

Kip Kinkeo shot 25 classmates and killed several in Sprinkle, Oregon. He killed his father and mother. He said he blew up a cow once. His classmates rated him as "Most Likely to Start WWIII".

Chad Lamanski one of three boys who bludgeoned 18 cats to death at Noah's Ark sanctuary in Iowa.

Serial Killers

Albert DeSalvo (the Boston Strangler) killed 13 women. In his youth he trapped dogs and cats in orange crates and shot arrows through the boxes.

Theodore Bundy executed for multiple murders. He claimed he spent early years with a grandfather who tormented animals. Evidence linked him to graves filled with animals bones.

Bernardo raped and tortured victims. He cooked and ate his wife's pet iguana.

Mark Lepine shot 14 women at Laval University. He slaughtered pigeons.

Dahmer staked cats to trees and decapitated dogs.

Hunter Jesperson (Happy Face Killer) strangled eight women. He bashed gopher heads, beat, strangled and shot stray cats and dogs. "You're actually

squeezing the life out of these animals." "Choking a human being or a cat - it's the same feeling." "I'm the very end result of what happens when somebody kills an animal at an early age."

Trenton Chase killed women. He was caught with a bucket of blood which he claimed was cow's blood and he was released. Later, a blender and stew pots with animal parts, as well as hundreds of leashes were found.

Henry Lee Lucas he was implicated in 30 murders and claimed to have killed 300 people. As a child, he killed every cat on his parent's farm.

Berkowitz killed 13 people. He killed his neighbour's Labrador retriever.

Massey shot a girl, disemboweled her and her head and hands were missing. He claims to have killed 37 cats, 29 dogs and 6 cows.

Carroll Cole - reputed to be one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history - convicted for 5 of 35 murders accused. He confessed his first act of violence was to strangle a puppy under the porch of his house.

Sherrill (the Oklahoma Mail r) shot 14 co-workers and himself in 1986. He had stolen neighbourhood pets, tied them with baling wire and goaded his own dog to mutilate them.

Alton murdered two 16 year old boys, doused a neighbour with lighter fluid and tossed matches at him. His initial run-in with police was for killing neighbourhood cats.

Huberty killed 21 children and adults at a Mc's restaurant in San Ysidra, California. He had shot his neighbour's dog with an air gun.

Cartier shot e Lardner twice and himself. He broke the legs of a cat he gave her, threw it through a second storey window and was charged with animal abuse, but not convicted. He would have been in jail, if convicted, when he killed e. He ripped the legs off a rabbit when he was a child.