By Steve Huff
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"[M]urder isn't just a crime of lust or violence. It becomes possession. They are part of you ... You feel the last bit of breath leaving their bodies ... You're looking into their eyes ... A person in that situation is God!" Theodore Robert Bundy, in an interview he gave to FBI Agent Bill Hagmaier.
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"I am now in control of all things." A letter sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in April, 1978, allegedly by the Zodiac Killer. The authorship of this letter is in dispute.
"For Halloween, Samhain, whatever, I'm dressing up as God, and Alicia is dressing up as Jesus. Most likely, though, we're just going to take the easy way out and get a couple of those "Hello, my name is" name tags and write God and Jesus on them. I may get a whole bunch of them, and write different names of God on them, and stick them all over myself. "Hello, my name is God, Jehovah, Yahweh, Wotan, Odin, Ra, Pan, Bog, Iah, AFFA, Mammon, Shiva, Adonai Molach, Abulldad, Shamash, Iadabaoth, Crom..." Kevin Underwood, writing in a blog entry at futurworldruler.blogspot.com on October 20, 2002.
Kevin Underwood's landlord said in one interview that Kevin was creepy. He would stare at children playing around the apartment complex. But Underwood worked a low-level job as a stocker at a local supermarket and before that he worked at a local Carl's Jr. He did not have a vehicle of his own. He claimed in more than one post online that he had social phobia, and often made statements about feeling depressed, that there was something "wrong" with him. No one knows at the moment when his fantasies began to take a turn towards the dark, violent and brutal. But his Geocities posts as "psycomind," made prior to the advent of blogging as a pursuit for even beginning computer users, seem to show that he already found amusement, maybe even excitement in fantasies of power and control.
Was Underwood consciously trying to become a serial killer? There is still a great deal more to learn before anyone draws such a conclusion about the 26-year-old from Purcell, OK. But even in 2002, Underwood was joking about being "God" on Halloween using all the names he could think of that stand for "God" in various cultures and myths.
Did Kevin Underwood have what he thought was a moment of self-realization, when he decided that his path to infamy would have to involve murder? Not just murder, but a slaying so vicious that within a day of his arrest, District Attorney Tim Kuykendall had concluded he would seek the death penalty.
If Underwood did have such a moment, can it be found online, in his voluminous writings? It seems he left enough for many of us to research the answer to that question and come to our own conclusions.
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