Ottis Toole, born at the bottom of the gene pool, retarded and illiterate, had been out of control since early childhood.
Between 1976 and.
To him, life itself was so unmeaning, and the distinction between living and dead people so blurred, that killing another human being was no more than swatting an annoying fly.
A severely drug-dependent individual as well as an arsonist, murderer, rapist, and cannibal, he was unsafe under any conditions outside of a secure prison, and perhaps unsafe there.
Ottis Toole, born at the bottom of the gene pool, retarded and illiterate, had been out of control since early childhood