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described as the society at large.
    brain’s “emotional voltage regulator.” Dr. Helen Morri-Bai’s payback rampage began in March 1996, when son, a Chicago psychiatrist whose interview subjects he attacked a police sentry in Beijing and stole a semi-include JOHN GACY, PETER SUTCLIFFE, and “Mad Biter”
    automatic weapon, later used to kill one person and Richard Macek, cites damage to the hypothalamic wound six others (including four patrolmen). Authori-region of the brain as a potential cause of violent crime.
    ties believe he also robbed and killed a Beijing cigarette The hypothalamus regulates hormone production, vendor before leaving town and traveling to the north-including the adrenal and thyroid glands, with corre-ern Chinese province of Hebei. There, Bai killed sponding influence on individual response to real or another policeman and stole his automatic rifle, moving perceived threats. In essence, Dr. Morrison contends on to Urümqi, the capital of Xinjiang province. In that damage to the hypothalamus may prevent an indi-Urümqi, authorities say Bai and two accomplices mur-vidual from growing toward emotional maturity. When dered 10 persons—including police officers, security threatened or insulted, even if the threat is mere illu-guards, and civilians—while stealing 1.5 million yuan sion, individuals with hypothalamic damage may (about $180,000). Unhappy with the prospect of shar-respond with childish tantrums . . . and the grown-up ing his loot, Bai killed one of his cohorts and kept all weapons of adults.
    the money for himself. By that time, Bai had earned the 13
    BALL, Joe
    dubious honor of being labeled China’s “Public Enemy of several female corpses, acting under threat of death No. 1.”
    when he fed their dismembered remains to the alliga-Returning to Beijing in October 1997, the 39-year-tors. From the safety of his new location, Joe’s ex-old gunman was traced by police and arrested on Octo-neighbor joined the litany, describing an evening in ber 16, charged with 14 homicides and various related 1936 when he had seen Ball chopping up a woman’s felonies. A local newspaper reported his confession, and body and tossing the fragments to his hungry pets.
    he was returned to Xinjiang province for trial, where The Rangers had enough to indict Ball, but they most of his victims were slain. Convicted on all counts needed solid evidence for a conviction. On September and sentenced to death, Bai Baoshan was executed on 24, 1938, they dropped by the Sociable Inn to examine May 6, 1998.
    Joe’s meat barrel, and Ball realized the game was up.
    Stepping behind the bar, he rang up a “no sale” on the cash register, drew a pistol from the drawer, and killed BALL, Joe
    himself with one shot to the head. His handyman was Born in 1892, Joe Ball was a one-time bootlegger and jailed for two years as an accessory after the fact, while tavern owner in Elmendorf, Texas, near San Antonio.
    Joe’s alligators were donated to the San Antonio zoo.
    In the 1930s, he ran the Sociable Inn, distinguished by its lovely waitresses and alligator pit out back, where Ball would daily entertain his patrons with the ritual of BÁTHORY, Erzsebet
    feeding time. He seemed to have a problem keeping Born in 1560, Erzsebet (or Elizabeth) Báthory was the waitresses—and wives—but the variety was part of daughter of an aristocratic soldier and the sister of what made Joe’s establishment so popular.
    Poland’s reigning king. Her family, in fact, was one of Ball possessed a darker side, however, and according the oldest noble houses in Hungary, its crest bearing the to reports from other residents of Elmendorf, he draconic symbol incorporated by King Sigismund into sounded anything but sociable. One neighbor, a police-the Order of the Dragon. The Báthory clan included man named Elton Crude, was threatened with a pistol knights and judges, bishops, cardinals, and kings, but it after he complained about the stench emitted by