There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-racement

We have a weird...

...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

A cop of murder.

As we have come to learn, many of the men and women in these stories suffer from various mental illnesses.

What if they got the proper help early in life?

Would that change things? Would it stop them from

becoming the serial or spree killers? On September 22nd, 1980, a man took his first victim. A man who,

just 14 days before his killing spree began, attempted and failed to get help for his paranoid

schizophrenia. So, if you like your coffee hot,

but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

Joseph Gerard Christopher was born on July 26, 1955, and by all accounts had a fairly normal childhood.

It wasn't until he was in his early 20s that he noticed his mental health was slipping,

even admitting himself into the Buffalo Psychiatric Center in September of 1980.

He suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and was reaching out for help.

Unfortunately, due to downsizing, he was told he was not

a danger to himself or others and was not admitted. Officials recommended counseling and therapy,

something he would never receive because just 14 days later, on September 22nd, 1980,

he began a killing spree that earned him the nickname the 22-caliber killer.

It was on that day in September that he took not just his first victim, 14-year-old Glenn Dunn,

but three other black men's lives in the span of 36 hours, all of which he shot with a 22-caliber

gun in a sniper style, and witnesses described him as a white youth.

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