The Mad Gasser of Mattoon: America’s Strangest Phantom Attacker
— April 20, 2026In the late summer of 1944, the quiet town of Mattoon, Illinois, became the…
Back in 1903, this deranged criminal killed between six and ten people and claimed he had committed numerous other crimes all over the United States. He was particularly well-known for eating part of his victim’s bodies. Quote: “I always had a desire to inflict pain on others and to have others inflict pain on me. The desire to inflict pain, that is all that is uppermost.”
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