More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Remember those scary story books we used to order from Scholastic? With the scary black and white wet-on-wet watercolors? I think the creators of those books hold the chemical formula for Scary.
I want to tell you about something scary.
Last night, I watched Revelations, the second documentary (the first called Paradise Lost: The murders at Robin Hood Hills) about the case of the "West Memphis 3". These are three teenagers accused of committing "a satanic, ritualistic murder" of three little boys in the forest between trailer parks. Essentially, it appears these three have been tossed in jail for life because they listened to Metallica, wore black t-shirts and because the smart one of the three (Damien Echols, currently on death row) was bold enough to describe himself as a Wiccan before a Arkansian jury. Poor Metallica, they mean so well.

However, regarding the scary aspect, I am not referring to the oral health or hygiene of the inhabitants of West Memphis. No, I suggest you rent Paradise Lost or Revelations, and then tell me what you think of Mr. Mark Byers, stepfather of one of the three boys murdered in the case. He is a six foot 2, toothless method-actor, a man on a variety of antipsychotic medications, a lover of knives, an individual who performs a mock burial for the accused involving lighter fluid, an axe, some overalls and a lot of yelling the words "Burn in Hell!" with gritted teeth, who falls dramatically to his knees at the grave of his wife, who seems to speak only in rehearsed monologue every time he is on-camera, who loves to wax biblical at the sight of stormclouds, whose intelligence is kind of unnerving in contrast to those who surround him, who gave the filmmakers a hunting knife as a gift during the filming of the first documentary that had dried human blood on it, a man who, affter evidence of bite marks were found on a victim following the first trial, claims all of his teeth were extracted following the murders due to taking tegretol - this is the portrait of the scariest bogeyman I've ever seen, and who is believed by many to be the murderer himself.

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