Part 8 (1/2)
They drove on, exchanging small talk as they went until she noticed he'd pa.s.sed two exits without stopping. When she asked where he was going, the man produced a gun and told her to shut up. She screamed, and he struck her hard on the head with the gun. She momentarily lost consciousness.
When she regained her senses, her clothes had been ripped away, and he was raping her. She pleaded for him not to hurt her. At that he swore at her, struck her once more, and again told her to shut up.
Over the next two hours, he raped her three more times, and forced her to f.e.l.l.a.t.e him twice.
When he was finished, he threw her out of the car, nude.
”Show your a.s.s and you may get some help,” he said, and then drove away, leaving her nude by the roadside with her youngster.
Type number three, the ”anger retaliatory rapist,” ratchets up the violence even higher. He is angry at women for real or imagined wrongs, and lashes out against them, episodically. Typically, his a.s.sault is sparked by something involving a woman.
”But the problem is, that episode could be anything from a woman being elected to Congress to a female police officer issuing him a ticket to a fight with his wife,” says Hazelwood.
This rapist uses excessive force; his victims often require hospitalization. He usually spends a very short time with them, often experiences s.e.xual dysfunction (because of his extreme hostility), and is highly impulsive.
A cla.s.sic example of the anger retaliatory rapist is the short and muscular rest room rapist mentioned earlier. A typical s.e.xual a.s.sault he described to Hazelwood occurred in a supermarket parking lot at midafternoon. Seeing a woman loading groceries in her car, he walked up to her, pushed the cart out of the way, pummeled her, threw her in the backseat of her car and raped her, then got up and walked away.
The most dangerous of all to his victims is the ”anger excitation rapist,” the s.e.xual s.a.d.i.s.t who is s.e.xually stimulated by his victim's suffering.
None of these rare and enormously destructive offenders has left a fuller record of himself than Mike DeBardeleben, the so-called ”Mall Pa.s.ser” counterfeiter and subject of my book, Lethal Shadow. The Secret Service brought the case to Roy's attention after DeBardeleben was captured in 1983.
He left behind sheaves of handwritten notes, underlined pa.s.sages in text, drawings, and tape recordings in which he created a detailed record of his desires and deeds.
”This is a tape, regarding my goals,” DeBardeleben begins on one undated tape recording.
”Number one on my list of goals is to establish a new ident.i.ty, complete with background, school records, employment records, driver's license, Social Security card, pa.s.sport, checking accounts, savings accounts. Rent an apartment. Buy a car. Have a job-or a job front. All under a new ident.i.ty. This new ident.i.ty would not be able to be traced to me under any circ.u.mstances. It may have to be set up in a different location, a different city.
”Second on my list of goals is to buy a house; preferably, buy some land and build my own house according to my own custom specifications and needs. Number one would be a garage, one- or two-car garage, to completely enclose a car with no windows so that no one could tell if a car was there or not there. Also a bas.e.m.e.nt area-or work area-which is hidden and unable to be detected by ordinary means.
”Naturally, of course, I would need as a requirement secret hidden compartments built into the house for stash areas, for various things . . . along with the secret work area for a press and darkroom facilities, a fun area-secret fun area-which would include a cage so that I could have an SMB [DeBardeleben's code for sadom.a.s.o.c.h.i.s.tic b.i.t.c.h] locked up!
”Also of prime importance-top priority-would be an incinerator capable of incinerating at extremely high temperature-total incineration. This could be connected as the lower part of the fireplace in the living room above.”
He also recorded torture sessions with his fourth wife, Caryn.*
”What are you going to do to me?!” the terrified woman is heard to say in a small voice on the tape.
”Huh?” DeBardeleben grunts.
”No!” Caryn screams. ”What are you going to do to me?! Please! Please tell me! Please tell me! What are you doing?! Tell me!”
”C'mon,” he drawls lazily.
”Oh, please don't do it again!”
”You gonna be a crybaby? Huh?”
Caryn whimpers. ”No, I won't.”
”All right.”
A pause.
”Please!” she screams again. ”Untie my hands! Please, Mike! Don't f.u.c.k me in the a.s.s! I wouldn't do something like that to you! Don't f.u.c.k me in the a.s.s!”
The tape, a half hour long and edited in places, quite clearly depicts Mike DeBardeleben torturing and sodomizing Caryn. He forces her to beg for pain and humiliation, and giggles as she does so.
”Please let me die,” Caryn pleads. ”Let me die. Let me die. Let me die.”
”Calm down. You gonna calm down?” her husband asks.
”Why can't I die? Why can't I die?” Caryn continues in a high-pitched singsong. ”Why can't I die? Why can't I die? Why can't I die?”
”My mother died,” DeBardeleben interjects.
”I wish I were her!” Caryn sobs. ”I wish I were her and not me! I wish I were her, oh G.o.d! I want to die! Why don't you do it?”
DeBardeleben hated women and used s.e.x to punish them.
He also exactly captured what could be called the s.e.xual s.a.d.i.s.t's creed in written notes discovered by the Secret Service, and later published in court doc.u.ments.
DeBardeleben wrote: The wish to inflict pain on others is not the essence of sadism. The central impulse to have complete mastery over another person, to make him/her a helpless object of our will, to become the absolute ruler over her, to become her G.o.d, to do with her as one pleases, to humiliate her, to enslave her are means to this end. And the most radical aim is to make her suffer. Since there is no greater power over another person than that of inflicting pain on her. To force her to undergo suffering without her being able to defend herself. The pleasure in the complete domination of another person is the very essence of the s.a.d.i.s.tic drive.
”Investigators,” explains Hazelwood, ”find no other s.e.xual crime as well planned and methodically executed as that committed by the anger excitation rapist. Every detail is carefully thought out and rehea.r.s.ed, either literally or in the offender's fantasies. Weapons and instruments, transportation, travel routes, recording devices, bindings-virtually every phase has been pre-planned, with one notable exception.
”A s.e.xual s.a.d.i.s.t will practice his brutality on his wife or girlfriend, but most of his victims are strangers. While they meet certain criteria established by the rapist to fulfill his desires and fantasies, they generally will not be a.s.sociated with him in any way known to others. This is also part of his plan. He wants no ties that will connect him to the victim.”
Of all Hazelwood's categories, the only type who may a.s.sault primarily out of s.e.xual desire is the so-called opportunistic rapist, who usually commits his offense in the course of committing some other crime altogether, such as robbery or kidnapping. As his designation implies, he sees an opportunity and impulsively seizes it.
He generally uses minimal force and spends just a short time with the victim. It is common for the opportunistic rapist to bind his victim before leaving.
He often is drunk or high on drugs when he rapes.
About the last category, gang rape, Hazelwood has the least to say. ”It is pathological group behavior in which the victim is almost always seriously injured,” he says. ”These rapists play to one another. There are multiple offenders, obviously. But there is always a leader, and always a reluctant partic.i.p.ant, who often makes himself known to the victim. This is the offender whom law enforcement should focus on and attempt to profile.”
8.
”I'd Like to Pray About This”
Following his AFIP fellows.h.i.+p, Roy returned once again to Fort Gordon, Georgia, to serve as a U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) instructor. In a short time, he was placed in charge of all new agents training for the CID.
He had so far enjoyed his army career and had done well. However, Roy also knew the next step in his career path likely would be a desk job at the Pentagon, a prospect about which he was only mildly enthusiastic, even though it also meant another promotion, to lieutenant colonel.
He was ten years away from retirement, and had no expectations of staying in the army beyond that time. That meant at age forty-two he'd have to start looking around for a second career. ”What am I going to do, sell real estate?” he asked himself. ”Do prison work? Become a special investigator for a sheriff's department?”
Roy had reached another of those periodic junctures in his life when all he knew for certain was what he disdained. It was time once more for chance to intervene.