Reason First: How to Tame a Mad Dog-Serial Killer Jospeh Taborsky

When you’re one of the very few people to be sentenced to life twice, your system of values must’ve been in serious disarray, to say the least. Joseph “Mad Dog” Taborsky plagued the state of Connecticut with his robberies and murders. He even committed a crime with his brother Albert, who had been committed to a psychiatric ward. This action led to Mad Dog’s sentence to be reduced and he exited death row and claimed that he would keep his nose clean.

This didn’t happen. He teamed with Arthur Culombe. In a stretch of a few months, The detestable duo robbed and killed a tailor named Nikola Leone at his place of business. They killed a gas station owner and an associate, another shop owner, and a shoe shop owner’s wife. They attempted to kill Frank Adinolfi and end his life like they had done to his wife. Adinolfi survived. He gave word to the authorities describing the large foot of the 6’4” Taborsky.

Their final stop on their killing spree occurred on January 26, 1957. Culombe confessed to the thefts and slayings. Again, Taborsky received a death sentence and because of his confession, took life behind the wall.

The ugliness of selflessness is at the root of all of this. This means that both killers, especially Taborsky, had no idea about his own life. They were truly unselfish. They possessed no traits that would lead them to prosperous, flourishing lives. They sacrificed their virtues to become monsters.

What they each exhibited was the inability to note the wonders of the universe. Instead of being a gas station, tailor shop, and shoe shop owners or a chemist, they took the low, easy, and puny way out through the start of physical force.

Taborsky and his accomplices chose to bring about the tyranny as little anarchists and dictators. They decided when and who would die. This is the hallmark of a brute. Treating their victims as expendable, they didn’t see the opportunity to trade with them like human beings rather than beasts in the streets.

Fortunately, they all found themselves locked up or killed by the state. Taborsky needed to be executed because of his crucial role in all of these murders. His way was not that of a genius or a thoughtful man, his actions represented the detriment to his own deteriorated mind. That’s the main part. His soul, or mind, had become so corroded that he couldn’t see past his own wickedness. The selflessness that is at the root of their failings should show anyone who studies this case to be the reason for their bloodthirsty nature.

Taborsky took in no gain from killing these people. His way of going about life was that of a low life who couldn’t deal with what life had to offer. Unselfishness reigned supreme in the spirit of Taborsky. He had no ways to be a model citizen after his first killing. And it only got worse from there. By only thinking of others, he never for a moment considered just how horrific his actions would be against his own person.

The truth is that Taborsky didn’t want to be rationally self-interested or selfish. Instead, he raised hell in Connecticut from 1950-1957. His way of confronting reality prompted him to lay down those people. In situations like this, he could’ve received psychiatric treatment and if that didn’t work, he could’ve killed himself. His brother and Culombe may have never been bandits wanted by the law either. They might have found productive roles to water the gardens of their lives. Mad Dog was finally put down and for good reason.