TX TX - Charles Albright, the Texas Eyeball Killer

[Harmony 2]

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/weird/charles_albright/index.html

The more the investigators learned about Albright, the less certain they were that they had the right guy. He did not fit the profile of a serial killer, and he had an alibi. He had a master's degree, knew several languages, was a former science teacher, was charming, was in a seemingly satisfying relationship, and seemed completely at ease with having his home searched and his gun tested. He did not abuse substances. Associates who were questioned about him remained loyal, certain the police had the wrong man. Albright had coached football, helped with Cub Scouts, and was kind to children. He was both articulate and artistic, a cultivated man accomplished in many things from piano to bullfighting, who seemed anything but a murderer. He was generous, friendly, and helpful to people in need. He was also apparently too old. At 57, he defied the stereotype of the angry young lust killer who was generally in his twenties or thirties.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/trutv...s/weird/charles_albright/Dallas-TX-map200.jpg

 

[Kimster]

This is what totally mortifies me, that they can be living a good life and yet be a serial killer! Dr. Jeckel, Mr. Hyde over and over again.

 

[bearfossils]

This is what totally mortifies me, that they can be living a good life and yet be a serial killer! Dr. Jeckel, Mr. Hyde over and over again.

Guys like this are the scariest to me too! They have a finely-crafted ‘mask of sanity’ which allows them to merge effortlessly into the world, functioning around us often in above-average capacity with obvious intelligence, charm, and skill. They can fool people and mask their sadistic, sociopathic traits with a smile and a handshake. Unknown to even those they love, those same hands strangle, beat, and torture in the cloak of night. Scariest are the ones with bizarre and horrendous desires: cutting out the eyes with slow, surgical precision? I cannot even imagine killing or torturing someone, let alone mutilating the corpse afterward with an obsessive and slow intent. So scary. Guys like this are true monsters.

The only good thing, if you can call it that, is that so many of these sociopaths are also narcissists who can't help but taunt police, leave clues, etc., which inevitably lead to their demise. Their need to be "known" and acknowledged for their "work" can make them sloppy, give away evidence to their identity, and allow them to be captured.

 

[tarabull]

Just digging...

Comprehensive Data Charting on 200+ Serial Killers

http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc 405/serial killers/Albright, Charles.pdf

 

[YESorNO]

See No Evil
How does a perfect gentleman become a vicious murderer? For Charles Albright, it all began with an obsession with eyes.

MAY 1993

"Charles Albright patiently waited behind an unbreakable glass wall, watching as the prison guard escorted me through three sets of steel-barred doors. “I apologize for not being able to shake your hand and say hello,” he said, formally rising as I approached his window in the visiting room. “They do not allow me to have face-to-face visits.”

The steel doors clanged shut. Then the man whom the Dallas police had called the coldest, most depraved killer of women in the city’s history gave me a long gentle stare, his dark deep-set eyes never wavering, an encouraging half-smile on his lips. At 59, he had a finely sculpted face and carefully groomed gray hair. Even in his prison uniform, he looked positively distinguished. “Ask me anything you want,” he said. “I’m not going to tell you anything that’s not true.”

Throughout his life, Albright had been described by many who knew him as the portrait of happiness, untroubled and troubling no one. He was, they said, a kind of Renaissance man – fluent in French and Spanish, a masterful painter, able to woo women by playing Chopin preludes on the piano or reciting poetry by Keats. It was simply impossible to believe that he could have viciously murdered three Dallas prostitutes in late 1990 and early 1991. The person who should have been arrested, Albright’s friends and lawyers insisted, was Axton Schindler, a paranoid, fast-talking truck driver who lived in one of Albright’s rental homes. The evidence pointed to him, they claimed, not to their beloved Charles Albright. Perhaps Albright was a touch eccentric, but he was certainly harmless; he was even squeamish when it came to violence.

“You won’t find any woman who’ll say anything other than that I was always a perfect gentleman in their presence,” he said softly. Behind the glass wall, he wore an almost childlike expression – weak and perplexed and, yes, oddly appealing. “I was always trying to do things for women. I would take their pictures. I would paint their portraits. I would give them little presents. I was always open for a lasting relationship.”

In most cases, serial killers are brutal, woefully uneducated young men, lifelong sadists who kill for their own twisted reasons. How, then, could someone so charming, so exceedingly polite, suddenly decide in the later years of his life to become a blood-thirsty sex monster? “Look, I’ve known Charlie for thirty years,” sighed one Albright friend, a retired Baptist minister. “In all that time I think I would have seen his dark side slip out at least once. Believe me, if he really was a psychotic killer, he couldn’t have kept it a secret all this time – could he?”

December 1944: Life With Mother..."

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articl...tm_source=Campaign Monitor&utm_term=Read More

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Charles Albright

"Charles Frederick Albright (born August 10, 1933) is an American killer and diagnosed psychopath from Dallas, Texas, who was convicted of killing one woman and suspected of killing two others in 1991. He is incarcerated in the John Montford Psychiatric Unit in Lubbock, Texas...."

Charles Albright - Wikipedia
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Charles Albright

“Eyeball Killer, Dallas Ripper and Dallas Slasher”

Charles Albright
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Serial Killer - Charles Albright

Jan 19, 2017

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(Mary Lou Pratt, 33 [12/13/1990], Susan Peterson, [2/10/1991], Shirley Williams, [3/18/1991])

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[king clopperdoodle]

Skip Hollandsworth's Texas Monthly article (link above, and here) is a great, grisly, disturbing read.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Charles Albright AKA the eyeball killer targeted sex workers

The film, Searching for a Serial Killer: The Regina Smith Story, details how rookie police officer Regina Smith helped catch Albright, who was convicted of murdering Shirley Williams, a sex worker, in 1991.

Unanswered question still haunts cop after Eyeball Killer took secret to grave

Rookie officer Regina Smith hunted a killer who terrorized Dallas, removing victims' eyes with chilling surgical skill.

www.the-express.com

 

[Bored_To_Death]

There's a Criminal Minds episode based on this case.