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Michael Ross's childhood growing up on a Connecticut chicken farm might have looked

idyllic from the outside, if you like chicken farms, but in reality, he was raised in a household

full of turmoil. Born in 1959, Michael was the eldest of Patricia Lane and Dan Ross's four children, and he was

also Patricia's least favorite. She was physically abusive to all of her kids, but Michael was the

one who received the most severe beatings. As well as the abuse that she dished out, Patricia also

abandoned her young family for a period of time while the children were young, and at one point she was institutionalized.

As a young child, Michael was allegedly sexually abused by one of his uncles, and when he was six, that uncle took his own life.

After living through his own sexual abuse,

Michael went on to molest two girls during his preteens. Even after his victims came forward about

the assaults, he repeatedly insisted that he had not assaulted the girls. They'd just been

playing doctors together. As punishment for these incidents, he was once again beaten by his parents.

Despite becoming a sexual offender at a young age, Michael was surprisingly successful as a student,

keeping to himself but maintaining good grades.

When he graduated high school, he decided to study economics at Cornell University, New York,

and it was during this time at Cornell that he truly developed his habit of obsessively stalking

young women. The stalking started during his sophomore year and escalated to sexually assaulting

one of his victims during his final year of college. Michael graduated from Cornell

in May 1981, and that same month, he committed his first murder. Just like the stalking,

once Michael started to kill his victims after assaulting them, he didn't stop. Between May

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