By Steve Huff
(Continued)
Though Oklahoma authorities have said Kevin Underwood was planning his acts of rape, murder, and cannibalism for at least a year, he was writing strange things in his blog 4 years ago. He took an online quiz and posted it in this entry dated October 10, 2002. The test asked the question, "What mythical beast best represents you?" Underwood was "The Basilisk." Here is part of how the test result described a basilisk:
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" one of the lesser known of mythical bests, you are described as having the head and legs of a cock, the body of a serpent, and the wings of a bat (although there are wingless varieties). You were the blame of hundreds of thousands of deaths in the middle ages. Your breath and even gaze was deadly () You were a potent symbol of death and in some cultures the embodiment of Death himself. In Christianity, the Basilisk was linked with Satan."
Underwood's response to his quiz result was, "This is great."
Though the media and blogosphere in general quickly caught onto Kevin Underwood's blogging at futureworldruler.blogspot.com and speakjapanese.blogspot.com, as well as his personal profile at MySpace.com, under his "Subspecies23" screen name, crimebloggers and amateur cybersleuths haunting message boards devoted to discussing high-profile crime knew from experience sleuthing the online presence of Joseph Edward Duncan III (link takes you to Jules Hammer's The Cellar, a weblog devoted to documenting the internet postings left by Duncan, as well as his past and upcoming trial), that Underwood was not new to the web if his blogging was as extensive as it appeared to be. Past experience and intuition about the apparent nature of this beast predicted that Underwood had likely left cyber-footprints in a number of places, using a variety of screen names.
In cyberspace, the "game was afoot."
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