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

powerful gestures so, whilst drinking heavily, he told his fellow pub goers that he had murdered two men at a disco and he threatened to kill more.
    He began to terrorise one of his neighbours, former schoolteacher Raymond Faversham. The latter had taught in 46
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    Africa but had contracted malaria and returned to England where he found it impossible to find work. Sinking into a deep depression, he’d turned to alcohol for solace and had become something of a recluse.
    Raymond also had crippling arthritis in his hands and in his legs which meant that he walked with a limp – he was the perfect victim for an increasingly deranged sadist. Anthony Anderson took to regularly threatening him, burgling him and even throwing a dustbin through his window late one night.
    He also jumped out at the older man whilst wearing his devil mask, causing Mr Faversham to lose control of his bowels.
    The rst and second murders
    On Thursday 25 August 1987, he broke into Raymond Faversham’s house, overpowered the sleeping man and bound him. He pulled down his underpants and probably sexually assaulted him with his penis or with a weapon. The sadist also tortured the former schoolteacher, stabbing him with two knives a total of 500 times. He pulled Mr Faversham’s intestines from his abdominal cavity and draped them over the bed. One of the knives Anderson used was buried so deep into the victim’s body that it remained there until discovered by the pathologist. The other knife was left sticking out of his back. When his victim was dead or dying, Anthony Anderson covered his body with clothes, stole a clock and a microwave and left the house.
    The following day or the day after, he broke into neighbour Marcus Lamont’s house. The two men had been enemies for a long time and now Anderson would have his revenge.
    Binding the other man with his own clothes, he began to torture him with a knife, making a total of 70 insertions. He cut his victim’s stomach then rammed Lamont’s own genitals into the cut. He also inserted cigarettes into his mouth and his 47
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    rectum. During this sadistic onslaught, Marcus Lamont died from shock or loss of blood.
    The third and fourth murders
    Anthony soon made his way to his domineering grandfather Stasys Petrov’s allotment. (He would kill all four of his victims between 25 and 29 August 1987.) The older man had been born in Lithuania but had eventually moved to Yorkshire where he served a prison sentence for committing incest with his daughter, Anthony’s mother. Having heard about this incest, Anthony thought that his grandfather might actually be his father, though this wasn’t the case.
    Now Anthony Anderson gagged and bound the older man in his allotment shed and beat him to death with a sledgehammer, later telling acquaintances that the man’s brain had looked like baked beans. He locked the shed door before he left.
    The fourth victim was Stasys Petrov’s common-law wife, Elsa Konrad. She was ironing in the kitchen when Anderson attacked her, battering at her body again and again with an axe.
    Afterwards he covered her body with a sheet, stole numerous items – including a flick knife – from the house and bizarrely left his tie in the toilet bowl.
    Arrest and trial
    Anthony Anderson’s bizarre behaviour continued when he was taken into custody. He claimed that he had psychic powers and told the officers, ‘You know fuck all about black magic!’ Asked to talk about the murders he said, ‘They are just too horrible to describe.’ Later he justified his grandfather’s murder by explaining, ‘He raped me mother,’ adding falsely that his mother had committed two of the homicides. Later still he said that he had ‘a personality disorderment’. He also went on hunger strike for four days, though no one could figure out why.
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