A few Sundays ago we did a presentation at the prison. That means we take three services including the middle one in the segregated unit. The men are in there for their own or others' safety.
Now I have to say some of the men in the seg unit are ... just a little strange. However last time one of them was very 'normal' looking. He was articulate, smart (as smart as you can be in t-shirt and jeans), well-spoken, smiling and talking about a few weeks' time when it would all be sorted and he'd be out.
Naturally the chaplaincy can't talk about the prisoners but on the front page of tonight's local paper is a picture of my 'normal' man, under the headline, 'He asked me to lick blood.'
He and his lover are charged with the murder of his wife.
What's that about books and covers?
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I had a situation decades ago where we visited a prison and I got talking with one chap and he was fine.
Turns out he was a murderer and two days after the visit, did in one of the warders in a fit of peak.
Yes, you never can tell about people!
Thru the years I've been to the State Prison, several correctional institutes, boys' and girls' reformatory schools, and juvenile hall for chapel meetings. We've met all kinds of people and, like you said, it's the nice NORMAL looking ones that can fool you. Probably did their victims, too, eh? That's what's so creepy about serial killers, how they can just "blend" in and never stand out. Even "normal" enough so their spouses and loved ones don't have a clue what their "hobby" is. Scary, isn't it?!
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