In 1973, Leroy Francis was freed from a Parisian jail after serving nine years of a twenty-year sentence for the full moon rape and murder of a woman. In 1989 he was jailed for life for murdering one woman and raping two others. He was also convicted of eight attacks in southwest France. Leroy claimed that he was unable to control his bloodlust during the full moon, and remarked that he had wished for doctors to experiment him to discover the cause of his “moon madness.”
In 1924, Fritz Haarmann, the Hanover Butcher, murdered and cannibalised up to fifty young men. What he couldn’t eat himself, he sold as steaks and sausages to unsuspecting customers.
In 1977, serial killer David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz was ordered to murder by a large black dog.
In 1997, the “Werewolves on Wheels,” were apprehended for the deaths of thirty-seven Shiite Muslims in Karachi.
In 1998, The “Ripper of Genoa” was captured by Italian police after slashing to death at least eight women.
There are numerous other recordings of psychological werewolves throughout the 20th century, most of their cases involving savage, animalistic killings, rapes and cannibalism. The term “psychological werewolf” denotes a person who has tapped into a primitive, bestial instinct for bloodshed and carnage, a person removed from civilisation but not completely apart from it, much in the same way mythological werewolves are. Interestingly in 1999 the US Patent and Trademark Office rejected an attempt to patent a technique for creating animal-human hybrids. Looking at the statistics above, I’m not sure human beings need any help acting like animals…
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