Thomas Dillon : The Roadside Sniper

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Thomas Lee Dillon had a normal life with a job and a family, but he didn't like life, so he pretended to be other people. A sports star, a singer, the president, and even a killer.

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0:30.0	Thomas Lee Dylan liked to immerse himself in an imaginary world,
0:35.0	cruising the streets while pretending to be a soldier searching for enemy targets to shoot at.
0:40.0	Before long, his imagination wasn't good enough and with his rifle in hand,
0:45.0	Thomas spent three years making that fantasy into a reality.
0:50.0	This is Monsters.
1:15.0	Born on July 9, 1950,
1:18.0	Thomas Lee Dylan had an uneventful upbringing in Ohio.
1:21.0	He followed the typical pattern that society expected of him.
1:25.0	A degree in journalism, a steady job and a girlfriend who became his wife and the mother of his child.
1:31.0	Most people who knew Thomas, his wife, family and colleagues, knew that he had a passion for hunting,
1:37.0	which was how he chose to spend a lot of his spare time.
1:40.0	He wasn't until years later that they found out exactly what his hunting trips entailed and what type of prey Thomas was hunting.
1:47.0	During a three-year time period spanning from April of 1989 to April of 1992,
1:53.0	five complete strangers were randomly shot to death in southeastern Ohio.
1:58.0	All the victims were male but apart from that they had very little in common.
2:03.0	The youngest victim was 21 years old, the oldest was 48.
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