5-11-22
Yesterday was old-timey serial killer marathon day for me. I started out watching this documentary on Roku, Romeo Must Die, which is about Harry Powers (Herman Drenth), who killed at least five women and children in the 1930's. This Powers character would lure women to his house through lonely hearts club ads in the newspaper and then kill them and their children after extracting money from them.
After his trial, where he was found guilty of murder, he was hung in Moundsville WV. Supposedly, the creepy novel and movie Night of the Hunter was based on this serial killer's life. When admitting to his crimes, Powers calmly said of the murders:
I took Mrs. Lemke to the garage at midnight and led her into the cellar. I told her to keep quiet and directed her to stand up. I gazed into her eyes and held her spellbound. I told her I was her master and she would have to obey my orders. She closed her eyes and whispered that she was my slave and stood waiting my commands. Then I beat her with all of my strength. I beat her until she was a mass of bruises. Still she had no will of her own and did not cry out."
I drove Mrs. Eicher to the garage and placed her under a hypnotic spell. Then I strangled her and buried her. She, too, had submitted without resistance or outcries to my beating. And she wrote a letter authorizing me to take charge of her three children…I put Greta Eicher in one room in the garage cellar. Then I put Harry Eicher and Annabel Eicher into another room. I walked thru Annabel’s chamber and killed the younger kids. Killed the brother and sister. I hit the little boy on the head with a hammer before putting the rope around his throat. They never made any noise or put up any fight. I killed the older girl. I didn’t have any trouble. They took it quietly.
What makes this man calmly kill other humans, especially children, with no remorse? Well, while in the Clarksburg WV jail Powers claimed to be an atheist. When he was being led to his death, “Powers blinked in the glare of the lights and did not seem to heed the words of the chaplain.”
Then when that documentary was over, because Roku AI thinks I want to continue watching serial killers of the depression era, it automatically started another documentary, Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Vengeance, which showed the life of Carl Panzram, a serial killer, pederast, rapist, child molester, arsonist, robber and burglar in the 1920's. He claimed to have committed 21 murders (only five were confirmed) and more than 1,000 acts of sodomy of boys and men. After a series of imprisonments and escapes, he was hung in 1930 for the murder of a prison employee at Leavenworth Federal Prison.
Panzram was evil personified and had an intense hatred for God and religion. These are some of his quotes:
In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burgularies, robberies, larcenies, arsons and last but not least I have committed sodomy on more than 100 male human beings. For all these things I am not in the least bit sorry.
I prefer to die that way, and if I have a soul and if that soul should burn in Hell for a million years, still I prefer that to a lingering, agonizing death in some prison dungeon or a padded cell in a mad house... The only thanks you or your kind will ever get from me for your efforts on my behalf is that I wish you all had one neck and that I had my hands on it... I have no desire to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me, and I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill'em."
I don't believe in man, God nor Devil. I hate the whole damned human race, including myself... I preyed upon the weak, the harmless and the unsuspecting. This lesson I was taught by others : Might makes right. I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency.
Naturally, I now love Jesus very much. Yes, I love him so damn much that I would like to crucify him all over again! I want to be hanged and I don't want any interference by you or your filthy kind. I just know the more about the world and the essential evil nature of man and don't play the hypocrite. I am proud of having killed off a few and regret that I didn't kill more!
Next, because I had nothing to do for another two hours, Roku AI said hey watch this: H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer. This documentary is about a Chicago druggist-turned-hotelier who dismembered many of his guests back in the 1890's. The infamous serial killer, Dr. H.H. Holmes, at the height of his criminal career, designed his castle of horrors in Chicago, where he rented rooms to unsuspecting victims visiting the 1893 World's Fair. He confessed to 27 murders, but was only convicted for one (his business partner) and was executed by hanging in 1896.
Holmes once said:
I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing. I was born with the 'Evil One' standing as my sponsor beside the bed where I was ushered into the world, and he has been with me since.
In addition, before he was hung, Holmes drastically changed his facial appearance. He explained his new, grim look as “gruesome and taking a Satanical Cast.” The man was convinced that he was starting to resemble the Devil.
So, Napoleon, you spent six hours watching old-timey serial killer documentaries. So what? People are crazy and there will always be serial killers in society. That is true, but I was impressed that all three serial killer documentaries that I watched talked about the satanic/demonic influence. All three serial killers confessed to a non-belief in God and/or being possessed or influenced by evil demons.
Demons.
They exist and are real. Jesus throughout his ministry exorcized demons. Most people would say that Jesus was just curing mental illness. Of course he was, but where does mental illness come from? In our more enlightened/scientific age that we live in now (excepting virus theories which say dirty face rags work), people say mental illness is misfirings in the brain. Of course they are, but where do the misfirings come from? Demons possess/obsess/oppress people, and as a result impel the brain of that person to do evil things such as serial killing. In fact, demon possession/obsession/oppression ALWAYS ends up in bad results, from depressive thoughts destroying a person's life all the way up the dark spectrum to the repeated killing of other human beings.
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The whole reason for demons to exist is to cause chaos in the world and to damn the soul of as many humans as possible. That's it. Old-timey serial killers told us that. New-timey serial killers such as Fauci, Gates, Big Harma, Trudeau, Biden, and all the rest of the demonic ilk destroying the human race with a new-fangled killing machine of poison shots are telling us right now.
We refuse to listen, so the killing and chaos continues.
Some day when we are all dead and the generation in 2122 watches the old-timey serial killer documentaries of 2022, they will marvel at how much killing went on, and how much the serial killers out-and-out told us they were killing because they were demon-possessed and had a hatred for God.
May God have mercy on our souls for our continued ignorance and hubris.
This is a dark topic today Napoleon. I would be a gibbering idiot if I subjected myself to watching hours of evil. I recently read a book which dealt with a serial killer in Cleveland in the 1930’s. He was called the butcher for obvious reasons. I skipped over the gory parts because I simply can’t handle that stuff. It leaves me depressed and despondent.
The human mind can be fragile- I know mine could be, which is why I trust God to protect me from unimaginable forces of evil. And I’m better off keeping my focus here…
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.”
Philippians 4:8-9 NIV
Mercy is for believers. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I am praying for all.