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was convicted and given a suspended sentence.
    Although Bradfield turned out to be a killer, he was not in the same league as Hadden who, from an early age, was deemed to have been “born evil”. He enjoyed hurting people, lashing out at anyone who peeved him. Those who crossed him would find the headless corpse of their pet cat or dog deposited on their doorstep.
    He maliciously pushed his brother Geoff off his bike while they were practising to ride “no hands”, only to rush home to tell his mother that Geoff’s bike had not been damaged, making no mention of his brother’s injuries.
    Hadden’s father dismissed him as a “retard”, while his mother told him she had wanted a daughter. She dressed him as a girl and called him “Kristen” when she was drunk. The only place he found any stability was when he stayed at his grandparents’ retirement home on Cape Cod. Some noticed that he was anything but a retard, playing chess to near-genius standards.
    When his mother enrolled him for a two-year chef’s course at the celebrated Culinary Institute of America, he showed a genuine talent for producing ice sculptures. Even so, he reacted badly against any perceived slight, on one occasion retaliating by urinating in a vat of mashed potatoes. Nevertheless, he graduated as a chef in January 1974. He found employment in prestigious restaurants on Cape Cod. It was there, he claimed later, that he began killing.
    His strange behaviour in the kitchen, such as drinking blood, frequently lost him his job. The word spread throughout the restaurant owners of Massachusetts. Unable to find work on shore, Clark went to work on the SS
Norway
, a cruise ship. After a year, he found a job on Long Island, then at Lake Placid, New York, during the 1980 Winter Olympics. By 1982, he had been through fourteen jobs in eight years. Meanwhile, his personal life collapsed. His grandfather died and his grandmother entered a nursing home in poor health, robbing him of his only stability. Then his parents divorced and his father was diagnosed with cancer.
    His career on the slide, he enlisted in the US Navy as a below-deck cook. But his shipmates had little time for a man who wore women’s panties under his uniform. He was bullied and beaten, and once locked in a meat freezer for three hours. He was moved to other duties, but the bullying did not stop. After suffering concussion from having his head beaten against the deck of an aircraft carrier, he was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and given a medical discharge. He then turned up on the doorstep of his brother Geoff, who took him in. But Hadden refused to take medicine prescribed to him. He was arrested for stealing women’s underwear from a local department store – not for a girlfriend but to wear himself.
    “I like my ladies’ clothing,” he told his mother, who had started him down that road. “Don’t try and change me.”
    Geoff had to ask his brother to leave when Hadden was caught masturbating in front of his nephews and nieces. He moved into a room he rented 5 miles (8 km) from Geoff’s house. This did not last. His landlord found him “crazy and evil” and evicted him, but not before he had trashed the house, stealing books, tools and even the vacuum cleaner. He sprayed black dye on the living-room carpet and hid rotting fish heads up the chimney, in the stove and in the family’s piano. The smell permeated the house and was almost impossible to eradicate. He left dead cats in the fridge and on the welcome mat, then perched a ten-gallon can on top of a door, so it would spill when the door opened. This led to a conviction for the destruction of property and he was put on probation.
    It also led to homelessness and to the job as a minimum-wage gardener with Penny Houghteling. He also worked in a fast-food outlet at night, so he had plenty of money, saving some $40,000 by 1990. His outgoings were minimal. He slept in his Datsun pickup, or set up camp in the woods just