Sadistic Killers: Profiles of Pathological Predators by Carol Anne Davis Read Free Book Online

to the body and directed them to a remote part of the Herefordshire woods. There they saw a foot poking out of the leaves. The killer was too distraught to look at the body and backed away before police could begin unearthing it.
    This type of behaviour isn’t unusual in sadistic killers – confronted with their actions after the rage and lust have subsided, they are capable of shame. But it’s a fleeting emotion which doesn’t prevent them from going on to offend again and again.
    Returned to the police station, Victor Miller admitted causing the child’s injuries. He also admitted sexually assaulting a total of 29 boys over the previous few years. He asked his solicitor to request that the courts give him the maximum possible sentence for Stuart Gough’s death.
    On Thursday 3 November 1988, he got his wish as he was sentenced to life imprisonment. The judge described him as a
    ‘sadistic sexual psychopath’ and suggested that he should never be released.
    Trevor Peacher said that he still loved Victor but that he couldn’t forgive him for murdering Stuart Gough. He was subsequently sentenced to three years in prison for giving Miller a false alibi.
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    ANTHONY PAUL
    ANDERSON
    Most criminal sadists abduct strangers or victimise their own spouses and children – but Anderson brutally murdered his violent grandfather,
    his grandfather’s common-law wife and two
    neighbours, all within five days.
    Rejected
    Anthony was born in Sheffield in 1967, the third child of Zoe Velt and Richard Anderson. The couple went on to have a total of five children but their relationship was increasingly dysfunctional. Zoe had been left traumatised after being sexually abused by her father and found it hard to show love towards her children, and Richard suffered from clinical levels of depression.
    When Anthony was only four his mother deserted the family.
    His father couldn’t cope and was admitted to a mental hospital and all of the children were taken into care.
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    never learned to read or write. No one wanted to foster him and he remained in the orphanage until he was 16.
    Shortly after leaving care, Anthony was sent to borstal on an aggravated burglary charge. Released after a year and a half, he was given a job through the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders and went to live with his mother, but after a few months she couldn’t stand his paranoia any longer and he was so agitated that he had to be heavily sedated by his GP. He then went to live with his father, who rented a council house nearby.
    The teenager was soon returned to prison for another six months for thieving, after which he again lived with his father.
    During this period he was also convicted of arson, which –
    when not connected with insurance fraud – can be regarded as a form of sadism. Indeed, there have been documented instances of sadists starting a fire then remaining at the scene to hear the victims’ anguished screams. Some have also been known to orgasm whilst watching the destructive power of a fire.
    A belief in demons
    Anthony Anderson remained lawless and disturbed as he moved into his late teens, living off the proceeds of his burglaries and supplementing this with casual black-economy work at scrapyards. He also revelled in frightening people, welcoming visitors to his flat then jumping out at them whilst wearing a devil mask. He believed that demons actually existed and that he could make demonic energy work for him, a relatively common way for a powerless young man to feel in control.
    But Anthony was determined to make what he saw as