African American Serial Killers Part 12

It doesn’t matter what drugs a killer is high on at the time of his or her fatal viciousness. The idea of having a certain drug or cocktail in their system does not distract from their evil deeds. Such was the case when Craig Price, now 51, entered the home of Joan Heaton, 39, and stabbed her and her daughters Jennifer, 10, and Melissa, 7, to death in horrific fashion. Some reports alluded to the fact he looked only to rob the house and then run away. This is nonsense according to veteran detectives. They knew he came to kill and destroy.

As the youngest serial killer in United States history, Price has a bloody trail that leads him right up until today. Incarcerated in the Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, Florida, he is currently serving a 25-year sentence for stabbing an inmate after also stabbing a correctional officer prior to this incident.

The tenor of these slayings and stabbings ought to give pause. Price represents the ogre who never outgrew his childhood frustrations and decided to become a monster. He wasn’t chastised or driven to kill by way of some terrifying spirit. He claims that a group of white people allegedly taunted him and attempted to commit vehicular homicide against him. In reality, It all resulted from his inability to deal with reality. Plenty of proper African American citizens have been abused verbally and had attempts on their lives. As an overgrown adolescent, he still deals with these certain hang ups. This in no way excuses him from his wickedness. Not many of these folks ever picked up a knife to exact revenge on an entire sector of the populace. His deep-seated iniquities show that he was a scared little boy and how the justice system had failed him, clearly.

His first murder occurred at 13 against Rebecca Spencer. This act challenged the system and made it more stringent for offenders under the age of an adult to be tried for serious crimes as if they were older. Price was just another out of control negro who became blood thirsty and longed to become infamous.

His cold, exacting confessions paint a portrait of a disgruntled and disturbed person who just couldn’t comprehend his role as a rights-respecting member of society. In the audio of him pouring his heart out to the detective, one can sense the ugliness and corruption of his twisted soul. Trained to be calm and straightforward, the detective probes further and further into the warped mind of this miscreant.

As he details his crimes, he never hesitates to describe how he abused and brutalized his victims. Like a chat in the neighborhood cafe, he speaks in casual, hushed tones. What emanates from these recordings is the idea that he holds no remorse for his crimes. He holds that his experiences were almost part of a justice system, as if he had been in the right for starting these acts of force.

What is the most chilling is that he fails to say how unjust and dastardly his actions actually played out in real life. Even given the opportunity to show how backwards and disgusting he presented himself to be, he simply outlined his behavior. Not only does he seem calm and sedate, he gives off an air of arrogance. It’s like he had been ordained to snuff out the lives of these women and young girls and attempt on the life of a correctional officer and inmate. While behind the wall, he has had scuffles and fights and fashioned shivs that he used against the officer and his fellow prisoner. When he talks about the specific murders, his tone is so low and conversational that he brings about a sense that he forwent the whole process of feeling contrition for his crimes. Sure, he says that he felt guilty in between getting caught, but does that really show his utter culpability that he silenced these lives?

Price is an example of the man child who never truly grew up. This is not in the innocent Peter Pan idea, either. This is the malevolent overgrown adolescent who never fully comprehended that you ought to be selfish and recognize the life and property of others as well. In his stormy life, he should remember that he is responsible for the tempest to begin with in all of this.