Killer Kids

Some youths are willing to commit atrocious crimes not to obtain sex, drugs, or money but to obtain power... a supernatural power that makes them rise above most common mortal. Thus, they turn to mysterious deities or unusal and obscure concepts. In their view, their crimes don't involve murder or premeditation... only ritual and sacrifice. Such is the cult killer.

Canadian serial killer Peter Woodcock, a teenager who murdered three young children in 1956 and 1957. Woodcock was placed in psychiatric care. While institutionalized, he murdered a fellow psychiatric patient in 1991, along-side another Murderer from the institute. In England, a young girl named Mary Bell strangled two boys to death.

Barely a few decades ago, sex was an issue that only concerned adults. This is no longer our reality today. Some children's sexuality devlops premanturely. At the tender age of 12 or 13, strong sexual urges may be manifested and become uncontrollable... leading onto a path of sexual crimes.

Sophie Lancaster was a twenty-year-old English woman who was beaten to death in 2007 for dressing in the Goth style. Sophie and her boyfriend, Rob, were attacked while out walking together. One of the responding emergency professionals was unable to tell whether the victims were male or female due to the extent of their injuries.

On April 23, 2006, Canadian police find the bodies of the Richardson family. Wendy Gardner, a young teen, convinces her boyfriend to murder her overly strict grandmother. In France, Pierre Folliot murders his parents and his brother but his sister survives.

Eight days after the Columbine massacre, Canadian Todd Smith opens fire at his high school, killing one student and wounding another. In 1995, French teen "Leila Zafar" murders her friend in her school restroom after an argument. In 1997, American youth Luke Woodham murders his mother before going to Pearl High School to murder his ex-girlfriend, her friend and wounding 7 others.

In 1993, two British young friends abducted two-year-old James Bulger, took him to a railway track and brutally murdered him. In Canada, a young boy arranges for his two friends to murder his mother and grandmother while hanging out with a girl to establish an alibi. While running away from their California two teen girls murder an elderly woman for her car.

Matthew Reid was a 3-year-old foster child from Canada who had been with the same foster family since the age of 10-months. The family took in an additional foster child about whom they knew little. This new girl, a young teenager, suffocated Matthew on her first night in the home. The girl was found to have mental disabilities and her new parents never knew.