Blood ties turned deadly in the peaceful citrus groves of Indian River County, Florida.

The quiet communities nestled along the Atlantic coast became hunting grounds for two men

bound by family and savage desires. Not only was one a trusted auxiliary deputy with the local

sheriff's department, but the other was his cousin.

The relatives unleashed a wave of terror that would earn them the moniker, the killing cousins.

This is Monsters.

This is Monsters. David Allen Gore was born on August 21, 1953 in Florida.

His childhood wasn't marred by physical abuse like many people who turn into evil monsters,

but he did suffer from persistent illnesses.

When he was a toddler, he fell into a hill of fire ants and was bitten around his head and face.

He developed a high fever and his family said he wasn't the same afterward.

It's been reported that, as a child his mother would sit him on her lap and read him Bible verses and only her underwear,

which might have triggered some form of conflict in his mind.

David became close to his cousin Fred Waterfield after learning that they both had a sexual

dark side as teenagers. That shouldn't have been surprising as Fred showed many signs of a

budding killer.

Born on September 29, 1952 in New Jersey, he was known to have slaughtered and mutilated farmhogs without reason,

savagely beat his dog with a metal pipe and spiraled into patterns of substance abuse.

The cousins would talk about sexually assaulting and even

murdering young women. They eventually escalated to peeping on girls in the locker room of their

high school gym class. Soon after, Fred sexually assaulted his cousin, David's sister. Not only did David not protect his little sister, he held

her down while the assault took place. David's first job ended in disgrace when management

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