[chris]

Herbert Mullin B-51410
Rm. 8- 249up
4001 Hwy 104
Ione, CA 95640

[chris]

By 1972, Mullin was 25 and had moved back in with his parents in Santa Cruz. By now he was hearing voices in his head that told him an earthquake was imminent, and that only through murder could he save California (Mullin's birthday, April 18, was the anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which he thought was very significant).

On October 13, 1972, Mullin went out and battered a homeless man to death with a baseball bat. He was to claim that the victim was Jonah from the Bible, and that he had sent Mullin a telepathic message saying, "Pick me up and throw me over the boat. Kill me so that others will be saved."

The next victim was Mary Guilfoyle, 24, whom Mullin picked up hitch-hiking. He stabbed her to death, sliced open her stomach and dumped her corpse at the side of the road. He then strung her intestines along the tree branches to examine them for "pollution". When Guilfoyle's body was found, it was mistakenly thought to be a victim of Edmund Kemper, another serial killer operating in the area at the time.

In November, Mullin claimed his third victim when he went to confess his sins but ended up stabbing the priest, Father Henri Tomei, to death. After that, Mullin decided to join the U.S. Marines and actually managed to pass the physical and psychiatric tests. However, he was refused entry when it was found out that he had a number of minor arrests for his bizarre and disruptive behavior in the past. This rejection fueled Mullin's paranoid delusions of conspiracies, behind which he believed was a powerful group of hippies.

Having purchased several guns, Mullin decided to kill Jim Gianera, a high school friend who had sold him cannabis. However, when Mullin went to Gianera's house on January 25, 1973, he found that his old friend had moved away. The house was now occupied by Kathy Francis, and she gave him Gianera's new address. There, Mullin killed both Gianera and his wife with shots to the head, then stabbed their bodies repeatedly. Mullin then went back to Francis' house, where he shot her and her two sons, aged 9 and 6, dead. Because Francis' husband—who was away at the time—was a drug dealer, the five murders were thought to be motivated by drug trafficking. (It would later be argued by prosecutors that the murder of Kathy Francis eliminated Mullin's claims of not guilty by reason of insanity because he killed her to remove a witness who could link him to the Gianera murders.)

On February 10, Mullin was wandering around Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park where he saw four teenaged boys out camping. He walked over to them, engaged in a brief conversation and claimed to be a park ranger, then, without provocation, he pulled out a gun and shot all of them to death.

The final murder took place three days later on February 13. Mullin was driving alone when he pulled over and shot dead an elderly man who was mowing his lawn. Then he got back into his car and drove off. It was broad daylight and there were a number of witnesses, and Mullin was quickly arrested. In the space of four months he had killed 13 people.

[Mutilatedmind]

[chris]

Very cool, neat letter.. Glad to see he supports Obama! =)

[Mutilatedmind]

[annmarie]

this man is sick
we need all the support we can for obama thanks chris you made me smile today

[sprchrgdtrky]

the last victim Fred Perez was my mother in laws uncle... he was actually mowing the neighbors front yard...

[VickerForecast]

“I believe that my father has been unequally blamed for my failures. But surely, if he had given me the six-year old homosexual “blow job” oral stimulation that I was entitled to, like most other people get, I would never had taken LSD without his permission.” - H.M.

"LEGALISE ACID" - tattoo on Herb's stomach.

Unbelievably weird serial killer who believed he was helping humanity out by stopping earthquakes. Big obsession here.

[Rocketman1112]

So was there pollution in Guilfoyle's intestines or not?