Paul Reid was your garden variety serial killer. A bad home, but with the kind of looks that made him the target of ridicule, when young. So, when he was able, Paul had plastic surgery, (just like the killer, Victor Di Morta, in Tom Savage's wonderful novel, "Valentine! I wonder if Savage was influenced by Reid????) but it was never able to cover up the soulless look that resided in his eyes.
A key clue, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reid also suffered from delusions of grandeur. Not that everyone who does is a serial killer, but what happens, when those delusions are shattered? Paul moved to Music City, U.S.A.--Nashville, Tennessee-- sometime after 1990, after having been paroled from an armed robbery conviction, and imprisoned, nearby Huston, Texas!
When he got to Nashville, Paul worked in fast food places. He also made a demo tape in a studio, and, darlings, I saw it, and, let me tell you, it was terrible! It would have been great on "The GONG Show!!!!!!!!"
But that's not what made Paul snap! Oh, no; he probably thought his tape was great., and he would be the next shining rhinestone of Opryland!!!!!!!!!!
On February 15. 1997. Reid had been working as a dishwasher at a Shoney's, but that day, was dismissed, for losing his temper, and throwing a dish at a coworker! The evening of June 25, , he went to the home of Shoney manager, Mitchell Lynn Roberts, He was armed with a gun and knife. Roberts actually let him into the house--his wife and son were there, and the son videoed part of the encounter!!!!
Reid first pleaded with Roberts to get his job back. Realizing the guy was mentally unstable, Roberts gently talked him out of the house, to get him to leave, but Reid pulled a gun and handcuffs on him, demanding Roberts put on the cuffs, and get into the car. That is when Roberts realized he was dealing with the Fast Food Killer, whose reign of terror began on February 16, 1997, the day after his firing, when he robbed a Captain D's, in Doneslon, Tennessee, where he stole money, then gunned down the manger, Steve Hampton, 28, and his 16-year-old employee, Sarah Jackson!
He repeated the pattern, on March 23, 1997, at a McDonald's, in Hermitage, Tennessee. Reid's victims there were Andrea Brown, 17, Robert Santiago, 27, and the Manager, and Robert A, Sewell, Jr., 23. Another worker, Jose Ramirez Gonzalez, 30, survived, and testified against Reid!!!! Good for you, Jose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reid's last attack was at a Baskin Robbins Ice Cream place in Clarksville, Tennessee, the evening of April 23, 1997! As at the other places, it was robbed and the workers executed--but with a difference. Angela Holmes, 21, and Michelle Mace, 16, were abducted by Reid. He drove them into Dunbar Cave State park, where he killed both. Apparently, Michelle had a friend who lived near there, because she tried to make a run for it, which is why her body was found about one hundred feet away from Angela's.
Then came the night of June 25. When Reid left the Roberts' residence, he later called, pleading for a chance to clear things up. Roberts agreed--but not before he had the called the cops, so that the place was surrounded, when Reid arrived. And they got him!
Reid was tried, and sentenced to death by lethal injection. But he died, just 24 days ago, this past November 1, after two weeks in Vanderbilt Hospital. The death is being looked into, but the sicko is gone!!!!! And the victims' families can possibly have some surcease.
I always knew fast food places were bad for me, darlings!!!! Back when I was growing up, in the heart of Highland Park, New Jersey, I was always forbidden to go near, or eat, at what was referred to as "that cheap White Rose." Besides, it was in the heart of Goat Alley, and, my God, the characters that hung out there!
Anyone ever get botulism there? I wouldn't be surprised! But no one was gunned down, execution style!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hot enough for you, where you are, now, Reid????????????????
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