I used to know a man who began with a kitten

[Mouse]

I used to know a man who worked for a drug company, in a fairly senior position. Within the ambit of Alcoholics Anonymous he told me and another woman how he first started to kill.

It began with a kitten that arrived in the family when he was a little boy in Ireland. He didn't like the way all the people's attention had gone from him and was fastening on the kitten. So he waited till everyone was out and put it in the range, where it was soon burnt to a cinder.

Then elderly ladies in Irish hospital beds were annoying him by requiring his attention in the night and interrupting their doctor's drinking. So he adjusted their medicine and they stopped bothering him.

At the time he told me this, he was afraid of the reach of an Australian extradition order because he had been repeating the practice in Australian hospitals and nursing homes during his career as a doctor. All this was before he became a senior drug company executive. It was also all before he stopped drinking, according to him.

His wife was a very close friend of mine. Now and then she would be terrified because she was afraid he was going to kill her. She said nothing could be done. She became addicted to painkillers and her bones crumbled away. They are dead now, except the child.





The police weren't interested and neither was the priest.

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I have long pondered how to respond to this,Em... I simply can't. Putting up a cathartic blogpost now.