The 11-Year-Old Serial Killer

Mary Bell is reportedly alive to this day but shirks the public spotlight for good reason.

“Mary Bell”, oil on canvas (200 x 100 cm) post-modern painting by the Belgian artist Xavier Tricot — JoJan on Wikipedia Commons

“I murder so that I may come back,” a sloppily handwritten note said.

The police found the note near the scene of death of a 4-year-old boy named Martin Brown, in Scotswood in Newcastle in North East England on May 24, 1968. Two months…