The Author Who Couldn’t Stop Killing | True Crime
Some monsters hide behind their charm and good looks to lure you in. Others use their talents to make you believe they have a gentle soul and not capable of evil. But, eventually, all monsters will show their true self.
Jack Henry Abbott
He was born on a military base in Michigan to an American soldier and a Chinese woman in 1944. Before he turned 18, Abbott had already spent nine years in reformatories.
He was released at the age of 18 and was only free for six months before being arrested for writing bad checks. While incarcerated at the Utah penitentiary, he stabbed an inmate to death and injured another, giving him a longer prison sentence.
Abbott escaped prison in 1971 and was arrested for bank robbery in Colorado. For this, he was given 19 years to be served in federal prison after his state sentence was finished.
Correspondence
In the late 70s, Norman Mailer wrote his 1979 release The Executioner’s Song, a fictionalized account of executed murderer Gary Gilmore.
