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Carroll Edwards Cole was born in Sioux City, Iowa on May 9th, 1938. Cole is an American Serial killer who was executed in 1985 for killing at least 15 women and one boy by strangulation. His crime spree lasted from 1948 to 1980. In 1939 his sister was born and not long after his family moved to California. His father left to fight in World war 2. While his father was off fighting for his country, his mother had many affairs. Cole was forced to go with his Mother and watch while she entertained strange men. He was often beaten to scare him into not telling his father. Cole’s mother was also verbally abusive and forced him to dress like a girl while she paraded him around her friends while berating him. At school Cole was often bullied and teased for having a “girls name.” Around the age of 8 Cole decided to take revenge on one his classmates, a boy named Duane. Cole waited for everyone to leave the lake that day and drowned Duane. Authorities regarded the death as an accident and they did not find out till many years later when Cole confessed that Duane was in fact murdered. As a teenager Cole was in out if jail for a variety of crimes minor including thefts, burglary, arson, and stealing cars. In his junior year of high school Cole dropped out and started drinking heavily. In 1957 he briefly joined the Navy but the following year he was dishonorably discharged for stealing guns. In 1960 Cole attacked two couples that were parking along a local lover’s lane with a hammer. After this attack he flagged down a Richmond police officer and told him that he has violent fantasies about strangling woman. Cole then committed himself to the Napa State Hospital for 90 days. However, while there he didn’t talk about his traumatic childhood or his dark fantasies and he was released in March of 1961. In October of the same year Cole requested psychiatric help again and was sent to the Atascadero State Hospital where he stayed until he was transferred to Stockton State Hospital in late 1962. During these hospital stays he was diagnosed as a psychopath. At Stockton State Hospital a Dr. Weiss wrote of Carroll Edward Cole: “He seems to be afraid of the female figure and cannot have intercourse with her first but must kill her before he can do it”. Cole was granted release in 1963 and diagnosed with a personality disorder and he no risk to others. A