Homeless and living in his truck, forty-year-old Hadden Clark often drew
stares in Bethesda, Maryland. He also slept with a teddy bear, and,
dressed as a woman, strolling through town, he carried 28 carving
knives, a straight razor, and a gun in his truck. When the reclusive
loner was arrested in 1992 for the stabbing murders of two local girls,
no one was surprised. It was after his incarceration that the surprises
came, popping up like half-buried corpses.
While serving a seventy-year sentence, Hadden confessed to having a
split personality, dominated by a psychotic mother and daughter who were
vying for attention. He also admitted to murdering at least a dozen more
women-- the ones he could remember-- cannibalizing them, using their
leftover body parts as fishing bait, and burying their remains
everywhere from a local cemetery to a sand dune on Cape Cod. Authorities
didn't believe him-- until Hadden took them on a personal four-state
tour.
Adrian Havill's Born Evil is a terrifying true crime story of split
personalities, cannibalism and serial murder.