A crime Stephen King could not invent
Davis, California, April 14, 2013.
Bluegrass musician Oliver “Chip” Northup fails to show for a memorial service. That was not like the 87-year-old lead singer for the Putah Creek Crawdads, a popular northern California folk group.
Chip also fails to show for a gig in Woodland that evening. He does not answer his phone.
His stepdaughter grows worried and drives to the house. Nobody answers the door. A window screen had been cut, so the call goes out to the police.
They find two deceased individuals, Northup and his wife Claudia Maupin, 76, stabbed, mutilated and murdered in a way that showed “exceptional depravity.”
The home had not been robbed. The killer left no clues. The police have no motive, and no suspects.
The killer is a high-school student, only 15 at the time of the crime. His website proclaims “Too Many Humans” and he believes serial killers can help fix the overpopulation problem. And as his girlfriend said, “he liked to torture.”
He tortured and mutilated Chip and Claudia then talked up the murders to his friends. That gets him arrested and for five hours he gives police details of the crime. “I stabbed the hell out of them,” he said. It “felt right” and gave him “pure happiness.”
He pleads not guilty, then changes his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity. By any means necessary, this killer wants to get away with double murder.
An expert witness testifies that the killer’s medications put him in a dream-like dissociative state. So he was not in control of his actions, and therefore not guilty.
The victims’ families and friends, already horrified and suffering, begin to wonder: Will this killer get away with it?
If readers want to exercise their right to know, there’s one place to find out.
This crime took place just down the freeway from author and investigative journalist Lloyd Billingsley. He visits the crime scene. He digs into the records. He talks to relatives of the victims.
He attends every day of the trial, where he finds that police may have understated the horror of this crime, something Stephen King could not invent.
Exceptional Depravity: Dan Who Likes Dark and Double Murder in Davis, California explains how it all happened, why it happened, and what it means. Readers might even learn what they should do about it.
First step: Lock and load on this powerful new book.
Davis, California, April 14, 2013.
Bluegrass musician Oliver “Chip” Northup fails to show for a memorial service. That was not like the 87-year-old lead singer for the Putah Creek Crawdads, a popular northern California folk group.
Chip also fails to show for a gig in Woodland that evening. He does not answer his phone.
His stepdaughter grows worried and drives to the house. Nobody answers the door. A window screen had been cut, so the call goes out to the police.
They find two deceased individuals, Northup and his wife Claudia Maupin, 76, stabbed, mutilated and murdered in a way that showed “exceptional depravity.”
The home had not been robbed. The killer left no clues. The police have no motive, and no suspects.
The killer is a high-school student, only 15 at the time of the crime. His website proclaims “Too Many Humans” and he believes serial killers can help fix the overpopulation problem. And as his girlfriend said, “he liked to torture.”
He tortured and mutilated Chip and Claudia then talked up the murders to his friends. That gets him arrested and for five hours he gives police details of the crime. “I stabbed the hell out of them,” he said. It “felt right” and gave him “pure happiness.”
He pleads not guilty, then changes his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity. By any means necessary, this killer wants to get away with double murder.
An expert witness testifies that the killer’s medications put him in a dream-like dissociative state. So he was not in control of his actions, and therefore not guilty.
The victims’ families and friends, already horrified and suffering, begin to wonder: Will this killer get away with it?
If readers want to exercise their right to know, there’s one place to find out.
This crime took place just down the freeway from author and investigative journalist Lloyd Billingsley. He visits the crime scene. He digs into the records. He talks to relatives of the victims.
He attends every day of the trial, where he finds that police may have understated the horror of this crime, something Stephen King could not invent.
Exceptional Depravity: Dan Who Likes Dark and Double Murder in Davis, California explains how it all happened, why it happened, and what it means. Readers might even learn what they should do about it.
First step: Lock and load on this powerful new book.







