Wild Spree of the Laughing Sadist

If you’ve got a thing about cruelty to animals you may want to skip this post, (or at least the first couple pages), in fact our subject today makes the killer in that Zebra story from a few months back look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. And as the level of brutality displayed here reaches almost cartoonish proportions, you can’t help but laugh at the excessive picture they’re attempting to paint of this lovely chap. But guess what? It’s all based on a “TRUE” story! Check the link after the story below...

From the November 1947 issue of Crime Does Not Pay #57

In 1949, Maryland adopted a pioneering “defective delinquent” law when a young legislator was moved by a series of senseless, violent Baltimore murders. The 19-year-old son of a wealthy family, Herman Duker, held up a milkman, father of two, and without provocation shot him dead. As a small child Duker exhibited appalling cruelty to animals and deviant sexual behaviors, both of which persisted for years. Arrests for thefts and burglaries began at an early age. At 16 he was diagnosed as a psychopathic personality, and two years later committed his sensational murder.The judge sentenced Duker to hang because, he said, if given a life sentence the violent young man would be a lifelong danger even to the prison guards.

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Vintage 50's ad

And don't forget to head over to Chuck's Comic Book Catacombs today for another look at the "lighter side of crime", this time an Atlas spoof on Gang Busters and Crime Does Not Pay. It's a silly classic illustrated by future MAD Magazine legend Dave Berg!