Voices in their head (told them to kill)
1970s
Infamous serial killer Henry Lee Lucas
Lucas, during his prior ten year prison stay... he complained chronically about hearing voices in his head, taunting him day and night
(ostensibly the reason for his confinement in the mental ward, though it could well have been the result of his confinement and treatment).
1970s
serial killer Herb Mullin
He complained constantly of voices haunting his thoughts, frequently telling others that he was receiving messages.
‘Make no mistake, Mr. Mullin hears voices, and the voices told him to kill.
The acts were not acts of murder – but acts of sacrifice.’
James Jackson, attorney to Herb Mullin, Serial Killer.
"This rejection(by the marines) fueled Mullin's paranoid delusions of conspiracies, behind which he believed was a powerful group of hippies."
(Manson link up?)
3-14-80
Dennis Sweeney, 36, shot ex-congressman and JFK assassination conspiracy proponent Allard Lowenstein
"Sweeney told psychiatrists that he was convinced by voices in his head that Mr. Lowenstein was part of a Jewish plot to destroy him."
"In the 1970's.. Mr. Sweeney began telling people about an electrode planted in his head."
"'The only reason I did what I did was to stop something terrible from happening. You can't understand that, but I had to do it. I had to
stop it.'"
11-27-80
Priscilla Joyce Ford, 51, kills 7 people in downtown Reno with her speeding car
"In June 1980, a voice told me to drive through a crowd at a theater and kill as many as possible. But another voice said she’s too much of a lady
to do it."
12-8-80
Mark David Chapman, 25, kills musician John Lennon. "Chapman claimed he had heard voices in his head telling him to kill the world-famous
musician."
7-18-84
James Huberty, 41, whacked almost two dozen people at a MacDonald's restaurant in San Diego.
"...his wife said he had been hearing voices."
8-20-86
Patrick Sherrill kills 14, wounds 6 in Edmund, OK post office.
"He was harassed by the 'voices' of children."
1990s
the Railroad Killer, Rafael Resendez-Ramirez
"At some time I have start(ed) to hear funny voices, like a person calling me, but no one call me." ---Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, in a letter
to a reporter in Houston following his surrender to authorities
4-25-90
Atlanta, GA, shopping mall, James Calvin Brady, a black man who believed a machine had been implanted in his stomach that told him to kill
white people, 1 dead, 4 wounded
12-16-92
Wayne Lo, 18, Simon's Rock College, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 2 dead, 4 wounded
--He repeatedly insisted, for example, that he was "a very happy person" before the message to kill came, as he believes it did, out of
nowhere.
3-23-94
Mario Aburto Martiniez, alleged assassin of Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio in Tijuana, Mex.
He went to where Colosio was speaking, and suddenly a little voice from deep inside "came over him" which instructed him to shoot Colosio's
feet.
5-21-98
Tucson, AZ, post office 1 dead, 4 wounded
Gracie Verduzco, a 35-year-old paranoid schizophrenic who believed she had a transmitter in her left ear that received messages from a
satellite,
5-22-98
Kip Kinkel, Springfield, OR, Thurston High School, 1 dead, 7 seriously wounded
When asked, "Where do you think the voices came from?" Kip replied, "Well, I had some theories. Maybe it was from the devil... the
government might have put a chip in my head. Government satellites might have transmitted to the chip.... At first I thought the voices were outside
of my head because they were so very loud, like surround sound." Kip also claimed he believed one satellite gave voices to the microchip and another
followed his every movement.
7-24-98
Russell Weston Jr., 41, ran into the Capitol building and killed two police officers. He believed he was being told to do so by alien radio
transmissions.
5-3-99
Southcoast Early Childhood Learning Center, Costa Mesa, California, Steven Allen Abrams, 39. Killed two toddlers and seriously injured several more
when he drove his car at high speed onto the school playground.
-A man accused of intentionally plowing his car into a Costa Mesa preschool playground conceived the attack years in advance, hoping that killing
"innocent" children would halt the voices he claims the government was beaming into his brain...
--Abrams began to believe that "somebody had brain wave technology that could control somebody's thoughts and behavior,"
--He believed government agencies had devised machines ..that "may even insert thoughts of killing"
5-20-99
T.J. Solomon, 15, Conyers, GA, Heritage High, 6 wounded
--Dr. Eddy Regnier, a teacher of psychiatry at Harvard University and who was hired by defense attorneys to examine T.J. said that T.J. had suicidal
thoughts and believed to hear voices giving him commands. “He heard voices telling him to do strange things, but they were robotic voices,
not human voices”(wikipedia)
6-29-03
Joseph Hunter Parker, 30, killed two people with a samurai sword at an Albertson's supermarket in Irvine, California(Orange County).
" .... phone calls to his mother back in Virginia were shorter and stranger. "He kept telling me, I hear voices, Momma, telling me to do bad
things" Susan Davis said.
10-10-03
Mijailo Mijailovic, 25, stabbed to death Sweden's foreign minister, Anna Lindh.
"He said he could not ignore voices in his head telling him to attack."
3-2-05
Jason Clinard, 14, Stewart County High School, Cumberland City, TN 1 dead
He shot his school bus driver six times, killing her as she stopped to pick him up.
--the teen told staff at Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute that he had been "hearing voices for about five years, which instructed
Jason to harm others and himself"
--The boy told the psychiatrist, "it's like somebody else controlling my body."
12-1-07
Christopher Erin Rogers, 28, Anchorage, AK 2 dead, 3 wounded
He said he heard voices in his head, voices that got more insistent over years and especially in the three months before he killed his father
and maimed his father's fiancee in Palmer
Did he want to kill people?
"I didn't want to, like I said, I felt like I had to. I didn't want to do any of that s--t," he said, his voice brittle. "But I did."
12-15-07
Trevor Lapierre, 22, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
He stabbed a stranger to death on the street.
His friend said Lapierre confided to him during an online chat that he heard "voices of demons that would tell him to hurt people. They would
taunt him.''
''Every time I leave my house it’s a constant struggle in the radio frequencies, always belittling me..."
2-23-10
Deer Creek Middle School, Jefferson County, CO 2 wounded
Bruco Strongeagle Eastwood, 32, heard voices coming from the 'Nielson box' attached to his TV...
"An attorney for Strongeagle told jurors... her client has struggled with imaginary voices for years."
--...he entered the school and told staffers he had attended it in 1991 or 1992, and asked if he could tour it.
He was told he would have to wait until students left. He waited in his car and watched a sheriff's deputy who is assigned to the school drive away
to another call before he sneaked up on the students and started shooting.
4-19-10
Abdo Ibssa shot three people, then himself... at Parkwest Hospital in Knoxville, TN. He left a note, according to police, that a microchip had
been placed in him during surgery.
5-3-10 Layla Trawick, 35, stabs four people at a Target store in West Hollywood.
Witnesses say Trawick screamed "there is no witness protection program" during the attack at the Target store.
Her mother told ABC7 that sounds familiar.
"She thinks that there's a bug in her ear, like a microphone and a camera in her eye. That she's sent on these missions from the government," said
Trawick's mother. "So she thinks she should be in the witness protection program and she's not."
1-8-11 Tucson/Giffords shooting Jared Loughner, 22 6 dead
Loughner told a psychologist... that "the radio was talking to him and inserting thoughts into his mind."
4-9-11 Ridderhof Mall massacre in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, 6 dead
Tristan van der Vlis, 24, believed he heard the voices of the dead...
9-6-11 Carson City, NV--IHOP, Eduardo Sencion, 32 5 dead
He "spoke of hearing voices that were telling him to do “bad things” to people."
8-13-13 St. Joseph, Louisiana bank hostage taker Fuaed Abdo Ahmed, 20 3 dead
"Ahmed told hostage negotiators that he heard voices and wanted to have a device removed from his head."