
“I got her to the bank and left her there,” she went on, unemotionally.
“She detonated herself at a police station in Muqdadiya.”
I got paroled to my mother. Atascadero decided that i didn’t ever need to talk to her at all. Don’t give her christmas presents, leave her alone. She got her pound of flesh out of you. I wasn’t sniveling about my mother to them. I didn’t like to what they had to say about her. She went through three husbands like a hot knife through butter. Four months after i was out i was back in the fantasy bay. My first date was a disaster, wasn’t her fault, and i didn’t even blame her even then. Im saying it was a terrible tragedy, but boy was it, boy she didn’t ever talked to me again. It was awful. It wasn’t sexual or grabbing at her or none of that. I was just such a dork. Taking her to a John Wayne movie and Denny’s. It’s terrible. I had never been on a date, at sixteen that was cool, i had never been on a date. You know? I was locked up since i was fifteen. But i can’t tell her that, “Oh gee don’t mind me.” She got kinda of hung up on my looks or whatever. She was a gorgeous young lady, pure class, and she saw something there that i guess wasn’t there and boy she found out quick.
But i was losing a grasp on something that was too violent to keep inside forever. As I’m sitting there with a severed head in my hand talking to it. Or looking at it, and I’m about to go crazy, literally. I’m about to go completely flywheel loose and just fall apart. I say, “Wow this is insane.” Then Told myself’ “No it isn’t, you’re saying that and that makes it not insane.” I said, “I’m sane and I’m looking at severed…”, and i said “wait a minute I see old paintings and drawings of viking heroes talking to severed heads and taking them to parties. Old enemies in leather bags. Part of our heritage.” This is me back then, 1972 and 1973. Unable to live with the fact that I just stabbed to death and cut the throat of a innocent young women. Innocent in the sense that she did not plan on that happening. She did not do anything specifically for that to happen her. Yet she was a very active participant in her own death, and in my memory of that. She was nineteen years old and her roommate that was in the trunk who died right after that was eighteen. I didn’t go hog wild and totally limp. What I’m saying is i found myself doing things in an attempt to make things fit together inside. I was doing sexual probings and things. I mean in the sense of striking out and reaching out and grabbing and pulling to me. But appalled at the sense that it wasn’t working. That isn’t the way its supposed to be. That isn’t the way I want it. See what I’m saying.
During that time i become engaged to someone who is young, someone who is beautiful. Very much the same advantages and very much the same upbringing and disneyland values. And, uh, she’s very much the reason I surrendered. I picked up two girls that looked so much like the first two, it was unbelievable. Almost identical circumstances, and I let them go. Everything went towards killing them and I didn’t. But I’m saying, wow it’s uncanny, it’s almost like it was meant to be that way. And i said wow this has got to stop. A week later I murdered my mother. I went back to Santa Cruz and killed her.
I am an american, and I killed americans.
I am a human being and i killed human beings,
and i did it in my society.

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