When three women are stabbed and mutilated in the quaint town of Ashland, Alabama- the people are scared of what monster walks among them. Fourteen year old Raymond Eugene Brown- a quiet, smiling boy on the football team- is convicted of the slaughter though most people thought he was innocent. When he murdered again, twenty seven years later, they had to admit a Serial Killer had walked among them This book attempts to show what forces led this young boy to become a murderer. It is a study of Raymond and the Psychopath- mingled with facts, fiction and, believe it or not, humor.