Attacked By A Creature From Hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Which is exactly what happened to the Haines family during those tragic early morning hours of May 12, 2007.  At precisely 2am, EST, Alec Devon Kreider literally murdered the family--father Tom, mother Lisa and his alleged best friend Kevin, in their beds.

If this sounds somewhat familiar, girls, it is because I posted about it a week or so back, due to a program I had seen  on Investigation Discovery, called "Unuusal Suspects."  What I found out subesquently, is there has been a book written about the murder and the case, by Michael W. Cueno.  It is excellent, as it elaborates and expalins topics that the television program could only begin to outline.

Alec Devon Kreider truly is a Creature From Helll!!!!!!!!  On this rathe bizarre and witty webiste, called "Poeple You'll See In Hell," he is clearly mentioned.  Remember the publicity poster for the AIP teen exploitation horror film of the 50s, entitled "I Was A Teenage Frankenstein?"  It went something like this:

Body of a Boy

      Mind of a Monster

Soul of a Thing

Which is as good a description of Alec Kreider, as any I can think of.  I am glad to post on this topic a second time, because I wanted a chance to show Alec Kreider's fourth victim, pictured above.  This is Maggie Haines, the oldest daughter of the Haines family, and now their only survivor. Oh, she has uncles and aunts, with whom she stayed during that horrifying time, but when it comes to immeidte family, at the now age of 25 (still incredibly young) she has no one.  My heart goes out to Maggie, who has to live with this for the remainder of her natural days.  I can only pray for peace for her, and that, when tihe time comes, she and her family will be reunnited.

What is also disturbing is when you find out from Cueno's book, that Kreider had no idea Maggie was home; that he knew she was coming home from college, but he thought she would not be home for a few days more.  Which makes it clear she was not the intended target; Kevin was. However, a journal entry indicates that had he known about Maggie, or had their paths crossed during that night, he would have raped and then killed her.  Nice, huh???? Lucky Maggie!!!!!!!!!  But that luck comes with a price that she has paid every day since the aftermath of those murders.  She even had to bear the indignity of first being thought a suspect. Which, on one level is understandable; on another, it is simply unfathomable.

But many thought Alec, even when he was found out, was unfathomable.  Except, when you dug deeper, what was found was a walking time bomb of rage, narcissism, and arrogance.  Like many teens, Alec felt he was superior to his peers.  But narcissists don't always kill.  To me, Alec Kreider suggested a latter day Richard Leob, the more lethal and pathological of the Leopold-Loeb team, immortalized in the book, play and movie  "Compulsion" (based on the book by Meyer Levin).  And don't forget Loeb was the one who was murdered in prison, and after having been there awhile, so young Mr. Kreider had better watch out.

Alec's sociopathology was pretty much the same as Loeb's--he simply wanted to kill, to see what it was like. He wanted to kill Kevin because of their friendship, and because on a deeper level he seemed to resent all Kevin had, in terms of familial happiness.  And he makes clear in his writings that, had he not been apprehended, he would have killed again.  And that his confession was less a cry of remorse than the anxious teenager's need to "brag to somebody" about what he did.

This is truly a Creature From Hell, who seems to be right at home there.  He is a leading exponent of walking evil, and, on some level, he would prove an excellent source of study for behaviorists. But release from prison???? I cannot see it.  Maggie Haines has said if such a thing took place, she would fear for not only her very life, but the lives of countless others.  I agree with her.

So, I highly recommend Cueno's book.  It gives a very penetrating glimpse into the heart of evil.

Walk away from this sicko, at once!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And read something lighter, afterwards, girls!!!!!  Maybe Candace Bushnell or Lauren Weisberger!!!!!!!!!!!!