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🗓️ 29 May 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | There were two more murders 15 miles away. |
0:02.6 | When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines. |
0:06.0 | We have a weird homicide. |
0:08.8 | A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird... |
0:12.0 | When you picture a brutal murderer, you don't often picture a child in your head. |
0:19.8 | On May 29, 2014, a young boy, barely a teenager, |
0:24.7 | took the life of a father of five, a crime that he would soon repeat in his quest to become |
0:30.0 | what he wanted more than anything in the world, to become a serial killer. So if you like your |
0:36.9 | coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and |
0:39.1 | start your day with a morning cup of murder. James Fairweather was born on August 5th, 1998, to Anita and |
0:49.1 | James Fairweather of Colchester, Essex. James was a normal kid from a completely normal family. |
0:55.7 | But after an uneventful childhood, the teen years brought James a behavior change that, |
1:01.3 | fearing he would be bullied, saw him becoming an aggressor at his school. |
1:06.0 | According to his classmates, James was known to get into trouble and blame his misdeeds on others. And, |
1:11.7 | according to a teacher, he rifled through her bag to rip up a report that cited his bad behavior. |
1:17.5 | While some reports named James as the bully, there are other reports that show fellow |
1:22.5 | classmates called him Dumbo because of his big ears. And as if the combination of puberty and teasing wasn't enough, |
1:30.2 | James lost his grandmother, a woman whom he was incredibly close with, |
1:34.5 | during the same time. |
1:36.4 | The loss seemed to escalate his aggression, |
1:38.8 | and soon he found himself arrested for a knife-point robbery |
1:42.0 | and sentenced to youth supervision. |
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