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assessments for his trial, Ross told a psychiatrist about two other women he’d killed, including his first murder while he attended Cornell. He said that while he was a sophomore, he’d been depressed and angry about a failing relationship and had begun to stalk co-eds. He’d fantasized about dominating them and making them do whatever he wanted. By the time he was a senior with a fiancée who was pulling away, he’d committed a rape. Finally, with his relationship on the rocks just before he graduated, he’d raped and strangled a woman from one of his classes. He’d seen her in Warren Hall and had followed her when she left. After killing her, he’d thrown her into Beebe Lake. This woman, of course, was Dzung Ngoc Tu.
    The other murder to which he confessed involved a girl he’d seen while traveling through New York. She’d been a teenager, he recalled. Her name was Paula Perrera.
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Chapter 12: Going Public
    In 1994, Ross offered a full confession to the public when he agreed to be interviewed for the BBC. To Christopher Berry-Dee, the interviewer, Ross appeared plump and bookish. As always, he was polite. Berry-Dee spent several days with Ross, getting his background. He also gave Ross a moniker, the “Roadside Strangler.” In addition, Berry-Dee took credit for getting a confession to the New York State murders, although Ross had already revealed them.
    Ross presented an unusual case history for a serial killer. Born in Brooklyn, Connecticut, on July 26, 1959, he was the oldest of four children. However, his parents, Dan and Patricia, did not get along. Ross was the baby that had forced the marriage, and his mother apparently never forgave him. Patricia, highly volatile and moody, could not bear the idea of spending her life on an egg farm. After undergoing two abortions, she left home twice, but even when she was there, she neglected her children, especially Ross, and sometimes abused them. Patricia was twice institutionalized for severe depression in the state hospital at Norwich (the grounds on which he’d left one of his victims). She told the psychiatrist that she had beaten her children and attempted suicide.
    Her kids were afraid of her. Ross remembered her trying to manipulate him into shooting his dog when it was ill. She had also humiliated him on several occasions, for which he did not forgive her. His need to master women might have had its origin in the helplessness he felt around his mother. Each day, Ross and his siblings had been forced to gauge her erratic moods. This experience seemed to influence his deepest fears. “I’ve always felt that I had to be in control of myself,” he told an interviewer, “and even to this day, I feel the need to be in control. What scares me most isn’t life in prison, or the death penalty, but insanity. I’m scared of losing touch with reality.”
    However, Ross had enjoyed the family farm and was proud of his father’s business, Eggs, Inc. When he was old enough, he got to participate in chores, and he didn’t mind killing the chickens when asked. There was some talk that Ross’s uncle (six years older), who committed suicide when Ross was eight, had molested him. Ross had no recollection of this abuse and exhibited few of the symptoms typical of abused children. Instead, he excelled in high school, getting an unprecedented perfect score on a comprehensive agriculture exam, and went on to study animal science at Cornell University. He formed an ambitious plan to one day manage his father’s business or set up his own. The troubles he had with power fantasies were aimed directly at women he wanted to control, which implicates his mother’s abuse.
    During adolescence, Ross developed a habit of following girls around just to see the fear in their eyes. He had a fantasy of imprisoning a girl in an underground cave, to hold her there until she fell in love with him. Once he got to college, he was able to explore some of these feelings in