Psychologists say that identifying a maniac in a crowd is unrealistic. It is no different from ordinary people. That was exactly what Frederick Graham Young was - a world-famous poison maniac.
Biography
Frederick Graham Young was born in the capital of England, London, on September 7, 1947. Very early left without a mother. For a while he was raised by his own aunt. Soon, my father got married. My wife's name was Molly. My son at that time was only 2 years old. The boy was often left to his own devices. He left home, wandered through the ruins, rummaged in garbage piles. There he found all sorts of trinkets. Carried them home. Hid in his room under the bed.
Frederick grew up a smart boy. He was educated at school. I read a lot. One day he came across a book on Satanism. He was delighted with her. Often read by her. He was particularly attracted to the description of potions. He began to invent various powders. Already in childhood, he could be called an alchemist. The father was pleased with his son. Graham receives a gift from him - a set of a young chemist. This is exactly what the boy needed. Soon, he creates his first poison, which he tested on frogs and mice. A talented teenager at the age of 12 was well versed in chemistry and pharmacology. He was 13 when he read a book describing a criminal who killed his victims with antimony. There he learns that antimony is poison, traces of which are difficult to find in the body of a poisoned one.
First crime
The thought of antimony haunted Young. He decides to test the effect of the poison on one of his classmates, who criticized him for his experiments with mice. Graham got the antimony in the pharmacy and added it to the boy in tea. He got pains in his stomach. The future poisoner failed to finish the crime that had begun. The poison found the stepmother. She made a scandal both to him and to the pharmacist who sold his stepson. Thus, Molly signed a death sentence. Graham takes out antimony in another pharmacy to poison her stepmother. Soon she began to suffer frequent pain in her stomach, and she dies. Cremation destroyed the traces of crime. But the police still suspected a teenager in him. It happened in 1962. The juvenile killer was then 14 years old.
First detention
After the stepmother was poisoned, Young began to poison the rest of the family - aunt, father, younger sister. He poured poison into food, which he often tried himself, forgetting to whom and what he put. Soon the father of the poisoner enters the hospital. There, the doctor mistakenly gives him the wrong diagnosis, claiming that he was poisoned with arsenic. Graham Young, thanks to his arrogance, doubting the doctor’s diagnosis, betrayed himself. He realized that his son was involved in the poisoning of his father. The point was set by a school chemistry teacher. He found poison vials in Graham’s desk. The police were called. In March 1962, Young was detained. Interrogations of the teenager showed his excellent knowledge of chemistry. But at the same time, oddities in his behavior were noticed.
Graham Young Psycho
A psychiatrist was invited for interrogation and concluded: Graham Young is a psychopath. This freed him from prison. He was convicted of poisoning his stepmother and attempted murder of the rest of the family. Sent to a psychiatric hospital (1962).
At the clinic, Young continued his work. He made poison from everything that he could get in a medical facility. Entrusted the trust of nursing staff. Soon, having made poison from the leaves of laurel, which grew in the courtyard of the hospital, he sent his roommate to the next world. He was a killer. No one began to understand the cause of his death. Young did not stop there. Suddenly, several people died in other wards. Doctors began to guess who was to blame. They tried to stay away from him.
In the wild
Young stayed in the hospital for 9 of the 15 years he was awarded. On leaving, he rented an apartment and got a job in one of the companies. He became friends with the mentor who was given to Graham at work. He was reckless to complain about being offended by the company. This was an occasion for the poisoner. He decides to avenge his friend. One after another, several colleagues die. Having understood, the police realizes that Graham has taken up the old.
