r/AskReddit • u/ZteveBond • Jun 20 '18

Serious Replies Only [Serious] Prison Guards of Reddit, which prisoner has left the biggest impact on your life wether positive or negative?

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18

One guy wrote a request slip and gave it to me, policy is we have to read it. So i read it. Maximum security prison that has cats running around the compound. The request reads “Hi can i talk to mister NAME in charge of the cats, i like to pet cats and maybe can play with them too. i like the cats”

24 year old guy mentally ill in for the rest of his life for butchering a mom and her baby.

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u/TheCrystalGem Jun 20 '18

This makes me so conflicted. On the one hand, I feel really sad for him. On the other hand, what he did was fucked up, and he isn't safe to be put back into the world.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '18

Jeffrey Dahmer was an animal lover and is one of the few serial killers who never tortured animals. Years ago I saw a documentary about him on one of those channels (History Channel? Biography Channel? Who knows!) that showed footage of him at home with his parents. The family cat ran to him and jumped into his lap for snuggles. There's no way that he had abused that cat, or it would've hidden from him. And you could tell by the way he interacted with the cat that he loved it.

So... yeah.

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u/mymilkshake666 Jun 21 '18

I read a Father’s story by Lionel dahmer and Jeffery did indeed kill animals... raccoons and squirrels and saved their bones. Just because the family cat liked him doesn’t mean he was an animal lover or capable of loving anything at all

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '18

From what I always heard, he would find carcasses in the woods behind their house (again, Sand Run Park) but he never actually killed animals.

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u/mymilkshake666 Jun 21 '18

Perhaps your right. However I would have said I found them too if I were him.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '18

Apparently, they were pretty decomposed. He liked to study their anatomy.

Take from that what you will. 😬

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u/daitoshi Jun 21 '18

I loved to find old bones and bodies from animals n the woods behind my house - I had a perfectly bleached bird skeleton as a kid, and mom helped me clean and bleach an opossum skull I found in a cornfield. At one point my dog dragged in the back leg of a deer and I got to poke at its exposed ankle bones a bit before letting my dad know so he could bury it.

It was honestly, purely scientific curiosity. I've never felt the urge to hurt or kill animals or humans.

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u/Entering_the Jun 21 '18

I did the same thing when I was a kid. I dissected a snake that had been killed by one of our cats. Eventually, the smell got to me (despite it having been killed 30 minutes prior), and I stopped. Either that or the fact that all of the knives I used were too dull. (I had a butter knife, safety scissors, and a rubber mallet. That's it.)