- Small package from the killer. No return address. Postmark Jersey City. Butterfly stamps. Contents: train station locker key marked with "J.C.".

- "History of England" book. Found at home of Lewis Brand, second victim. Belonged to Stephen Macon, first victim.

- B&W photo of Lewis Brand's grandmother. Found at home of Howard Kline, murder victim.

- Monogrammed keychain from a victim found hanging in the garage on a nail of the next victim.

- Gold handled spatula found in a tool caddy of the following victim.

- Personalized screwdriver found in another victim's sock drawer.

- Latin Bookmark (Ovid's Metamorphoses).

- Tattooed Man's post mortem butterfly tattoo.

- Note in French indicating a posssible change in M.O.

- Effects from killer's motel room - other items from victims' homes. Papers and notes relating to transformation. Example: The basic life cycle of the Monarch butterfly, handwritten on lined note paper.

i am invisible
i walk among you, unseen
i am your worst fears made flesh, the embodiment of your darkest, most depraved desires
i am invisible
i have left my mark across this land, in every generation
i share my cursed fate with you
i am invisible
i am the wolf among the sheep, the scythe among the wheat
i am your bloody end
i am invisible

1968 capital city
1966 san francisco
1934 chicago
1912 villisca

the seventh of seven, the lore made flesh

...and so it began and continues to this day. Somewhere out there is a killer who has murdered possibly dozens of people over a span of several decades.

And he thinks he is becoming... something. The notion of the killer transforming himself is obviously not a very new one. Borges and Lovecraft mention it. Thomas Harris has used it in several of his novels, famously The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon. But this, unfortunately, wasn't just a work of fiction. It was real, and it was ugly.

The Beginning
My investigation
Investigation part 2
News - Updated 10/22/2004
Evidence
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