Emissaries of Satan--Serial Killers Under the Microscope by Christopher Berry-Dee

Author:Christopher Berry-Dee [Christopher Berry-Dee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784183103
Publisher: John Blake Publishing
Published: 2015-03-17T16:00:00+00:00

Upon leaving school in 1971, Bianchi married an attractive lass and high-school friend called Brenda Beck. Tall, leggy, with a mane of long auburn hair, she was a super catch for any hot-blooded male. He took a part-time job at the ‘Two-Guy’s’ store, and he furthered his education at the Rochester Community College where he reviewed plays and films for the college newspaper, The Monroe Discipline. Ken’s enthusiasm then faltered; consequently, he failed to complete many of the classes, which included Psychology, in which he drew an ‘incomplete’. However, Psychology, and indeed Law Enforcement, were subjects he would return to under somewhat less than honest circumstances eight years later.

At the same time as Ken’s academic efforts were tottering on the edge of a cliff, his personal life suddenly collapsed around him when his wife Brenda – who Bianchi would later call one of the only two true loves of his life – caught him in bed with another woman, Janice Tuschong – who was, it seems, the second true love of his life. Completely the polar opposite in looks and morality to the woman now soiling her bed, Brenda threw him out on to the street where, once again, he became the subject of much ridicule amongst the few casual friends he had left.

In 1994, Frances Bianchi broke her silence for the first time. In a taped interview with me she said, ‘Ken was a blatant liar. You’d catch him doing something … ask him why he did it, he’d tell you, “I didn’t do it.” I’d catch him in lies, and he would deny everything. And, in the end, you felt like you were the crazy one, and not him. Christopher, he is such a smooth liar. He tells such lies that you believe him. You really believe what he says until you prove it for yourself.’

So Bianchi needed to be admired for something he was not. This was his way of compensating for his shortcomings. He had to excel in everything he undertook; after all, this was what his mother had drummed into him, expected of him, demanded of him and, like all people who suffer from grandiosity, it is a catastrophe if something fails them. When that happens, a bout of severe depression is imminent and, in Ken’s case, the crisis was immediate and lethal.

The collapse of Bianchi’s self-esteem during this period of his life proved just how precariously his self-esteem had been hanging by a thread, for nothing genuine that could have ever given him strength, or support, had been allowed to develop inside his mind. As Dr Alice Miller says, ‘The grandiose person is never really free. First because he is so excessively dependent on admiration from others; and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions and achievements that can suddenly fail.’

With Bianchi they did fail, and looking back through his history we can see that his relationships, and his efforts to succeed, hung in the air on a very fine thread indeed.

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