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In January 23rd, 2000, already battered by an ice storm, the rural Alabama resort town

of Mentone was about to be struck by an even more terrifying, freak catastrophe.

Hurtling down the highway in a Lincoln town car was Hayward Bissell, a 400-pound madman

on a murder rampage, ramming the pickup truck of Don and Rhea Perch, Bissell lured Don

Perch onto the road, running him down with his car.

Bissell's next target of the home of James and Sue Pumphrey, after stabbing James Pumphrey

in the stomach, Bissell was floored by two family dogs who gave their lives to protect

their owners.

Their sacrifice bought the Pumphrey's enough time to get a gun and scare off Bissell,

who didn't know the weapon was actually inoperable.

When Bissell was finally stopped, police discovered that he wasn't alone, occupying the passenger

seat beside him was the mutilated partially dismembered body of his pregnant girlfriend,

Patricia Ann Booher.

In February 2002, Bissell pled guilty but insane and was sent to prison for life.

Was he really crazy or was he crazy like a fox, turning it on and off to try to beat

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