From about 15 years on up, a great deal of my thoughts were basically unshareable.

We are all evil in some form or another.

Yes, I am not 100%, but I am you.

My mother was a sick, angry, hungry, and very sad woman.

I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother.

This is serial killing, a podcast.

Hello again, and welcome to serial killing, a podcast.

This is Alyssa Carroll, and I am your host and the creator of At Serial underscore killing on Instagram, where we go through the life stories of serial killers

to see if we might catch a glimpse of why they displayed their famous vile and disturbing

behaviors.

This week's episode is about Canadian serial killer Peter Woodcock and I must say he is a

pretty good example of a possible

correlation between childhood issues and that same child growing up and displaying a lack of

empathy toward others. I do need to warn you that his crimes were quite disturbing, so listen

with that in mind. Peter Woodcock was born on

March 5th, 1939, making him a Pisces in Peterborough, Ontario, which is just northeast of Toronto.

So let's get into what was going on in the world at that time.

In 1939, Canada was visited by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, who were the parents of England's current Queen Elizabeth.

This was referred to as the, quote, royal tour of Canada.

They visited every province in Canada as well as Newfoundland and even stepped over into the U.S. for a few days.

The Canadian citizens came out in droves to witness this tour.

Also at that time, a person could go to the grocery store and buy a small amount of bacon,

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