Sadistic Killers: Profiles of Pathological Predators Read Online Free PDF
Author: Carol Anne Davis
Tags: General, True Crime
his fantasies he raped and mastered every girl he came into contact with. This is a trait that’s especially common in embryonic-stage sadistic killers: unable to begin or maintain loving relationships, they spend endless hours developing a rich cruelty-based fantasy life.
It’s unknown when his peeping Tom activities began, but he was definitely an active voyeur when he found work in Birmingham and moved on his own to a lodging house there in the mid 1950s. His nickname by then was Acky and someone had written ‘Acky Byrne The Window Peeper’ on a wall close to his home.
Byrne found erotic satisfaction in watching unaware women undress. His favourite venues included the Birmingham YWCA hostel a mere half mile from his lodging house, the hostel where he would eventually kill. On one occasion he was caught on the stairs there and on another occasion he entered a 32
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young teacher’s room, the sound of her door opening waking her. He stared at her breasts through her nightgown and walked towards her but she remained calm, explaining to him that she was engaged to another man. He seemed to respect this (it made her a ‘good woman’ in his eyes), apologised and agreed to leave. She then led him out of the front door, locked it and phoned the police.
Patrick was introduced to an 18-year-old girl at a social club and met her there weekly, though he never made a pass at her.
He insisted on walking her home because he warned that ‘bad men might rape or hurt her’. He talked of such potential attacks again and again. But many women were naïve about criminal psychology in the 1950s and they simply believed that Patrick was a gentleman who was looking out for them. In truth, he was projecting his own sexually sadistic fantasies onto other men and imagining they were as deviant as he.
Prison
Byrne now began to show his true colours, assaulting a policeman in January 1958. He was sentenced to two months in prison. A few months later he was drinking in a Warrington pub when the landlord refused to serve him again as he was clearly drunk and disorderly. ‘Give us the drinks or I’ll knife you,’ Byrne screamed, so his friends tried to eject him from the building, but he was holding onto the bar top so tightly that it took three of them to prise him loose.
The murder
On 23 December 1959, he drank heavily in a Birmingham pub at lunchtime and into the early afternoon. When he belatedly returned to the building site where he was working, his foreman ordered him to remain on the ground rather than risk him climbing the scaffolding. Shortly afterwards, Byrne 33
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decided to go home. He was walking along the road when he saw a girl going into the YWCA hostel in Edgbaston, one of his favourite peeping Tom locations. He went to the back of the hostel, peeped through a window, and saw another girl in a red jumper and underskirt combing her hair.
Deciding to get a better look, Byrne entered the hostel through an adjacent open window and stood on a chair so that he could peep through the glass partition above the door. After a few minutes it became obvious that the occupant – Sidney Stephanie Baird, who was always known by her middle name
– wasn’t going to undress further, so Byrne got off his chair.
Seconds later Stephanie, who must have heard a noise in the corridor, opened the door and asked him what he wanted.
When he said that he was looking for someone she offered to get the warden, whereupon Byrne attempted to silence her with a kiss.
He put his hands around the 29-year-old’s waist and pushed her back into the room, making her scream in terror. During the desperate struggle which followed, the contents of the room were strewn all over the place. The 27-year-old then put his hands around her throat and she fell to the floor with him on top, whereupon she sustained a
It’s unknown when his peeping Tom activities began, but he was definitely an active voyeur when he found work in Birmingham and moved on his own to a lodging house there in the mid 1950s. His nickname by then was Acky and someone had written ‘Acky Byrne The Window Peeper’ on a wall close to his home.
Byrne found erotic satisfaction in watching unaware women undress. His favourite venues included the Birmingham YWCA hostel a mere half mile from his lodging house, the hostel where he would eventually kill. On one occasion he was caught on the stairs there and on another occasion he entered a 32
Sadistic Killers_INSIDES.indd 32
29/12/2006 09:58:49
Patrick Byrne
young teacher’s room, the sound of her door opening waking her. He stared at her breasts through her nightgown and walked towards her but she remained calm, explaining to him that she was engaged to another man. He seemed to respect this (it made her a ‘good woman’ in his eyes), apologised and agreed to leave. She then led him out of the front door, locked it and phoned the police.
Patrick was introduced to an 18-year-old girl at a social club and met her there weekly, though he never made a pass at her.
He insisted on walking her home because he warned that ‘bad men might rape or hurt her’. He talked of such potential attacks again and again. But many women were naïve about criminal psychology in the 1950s and they simply believed that Patrick was a gentleman who was looking out for them. In truth, he was projecting his own sexually sadistic fantasies onto other men and imagining they were as deviant as he.
Prison
Byrne now began to show his true colours, assaulting a policeman in January 1958. He was sentenced to two months in prison. A few months later he was drinking in a Warrington pub when the landlord refused to serve him again as he was clearly drunk and disorderly. ‘Give us the drinks or I’ll knife you,’ Byrne screamed, so his friends tried to eject him from the building, but he was holding onto the bar top so tightly that it took three of them to prise him loose.
The murder
On 23 December 1959, he drank heavily in a Birmingham pub at lunchtime and into the early afternoon. When he belatedly returned to the building site where he was working, his foreman ordered him to remain on the ground rather than risk him climbing the scaffolding. Shortly afterwards, Byrne 33
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decided to go home. He was walking along the road when he saw a girl going into the YWCA hostel in Edgbaston, one of his favourite peeping Tom locations. He went to the back of the hostel, peeped through a window, and saw another girl in a red jumper and underskirt combing her hair.
Deciding to get a better look, Byrne entered the hostel through an adjacent open window and stood on a chair so that he could peep through the glass partition above the door. After a few minutes it became obvious that the occupant – Sidney Stephanie Baird, who was always known by her middle name
– wasn’t going to undress further, so Byrne got off his chair.
Seconds later Stephanie, who must have heard a noise in the corridor, opened the door and asked him what he wanted.
When he said that he was looking for someone she offered to get the warden, whereupon Byrne attempted to silence her with a kiss.
He put his hands around the 29-year-old’s waist and pushed her back into the room, making her scream in terror. During the desperate struggle which followed, the contents of the room were strewn all over the place. The 27-year-old then put his hands around her throat and she fell to the floor with him on top, whereupon she sustained a
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