This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.

It's 2011 and the Arab Spring is raging.

A lesbian activist in Syria starts a blog.

She names it Gay Girl in Damascus.

Am I crazy? Maybe.

As her profile grows, so does the danger.

The object of the email was please read this while sitting down.

It's like a genie came out of the bottle and you can't put it back.

Gay Girl gone, available now.

Welcome to Human Monsters.

As an introduction, all I'll say is that it is morbidly apropos,

that Keith Jesperson's middle name is Hunter.

As this episode unfolds, you will find that he couldn't have possibly been more aptly named.

Keith Hunter Jesperson was born on April 6, 1955, in Chilliwack,

British Columbia, Canada.

He was the middle child of five children.

The family was dysfunctional in that Keith's father, Leslie, was distant and drunk.

Addiction wasn't the only mental illness documented within his family.

Keith had an uncle who committed suicide by hammering a nail into his brain.

Keith's grandfather was hard-boiled and bitter after years of hardships,

fomented by the Great Depression.

It's soured as views on many facets of life, including women.

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