If you don't know who Richard Cottingham and Jennifer Weiss are, and you take a look at their pictures together, you might think you're seeing a sweet moment between a grandpa and his granddaughter.

Both of them are smiling, have their arms around each other.

Your first thought might not be this Santa Claus-looking man actually killed and dismembered Jennifer's mother.

Obviously, I must be sick somehow.

Normal people don't do what I did.

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