Edawrd's Sudden Urge

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In the summer of nineteen forty three, witnesses crammed themselves into the execution chamber

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of Singh Singh Prison, New York, preparing themselves to witness history. The

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stench of smoke and the prisoner who
had already faced his execution by the electric

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chair still hung in the air around
them, a sickening foreshadowing of what awaited

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the young man being led to the
chair that very moment. His name was

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Edward Hate. Edward Hate came into
the world in nineteen twenty five in Stanford,

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Connecticut, the second out of four
children born into a family rife with

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lawlessness and criminality. He alone stood
out as the outcast at the young and

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tender age of only sixteen, for
having a clean criminal record, but that

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was soon to change. Born out
of ashes and destruction, Edward's life began

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anew in nineteen thirty nine when his
home was burned to the ground. Inside

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it was his mother, Georgiana,
who would tragically perish that night, leaving

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her children to the care of her
estranged husband, Arnold. Arnold himself had

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only just been paroled from prison when
his children showed up at his doorstep hungry

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and homeless. Arnold built them a
two story house to live in, but

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neighbors would later describe it as little
more than a shack, a stark depiction

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of the childhood that awaited them.
All. Bored with a life of poverty

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and not seeing the point in an
education, Edward dropped out of school when

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he was only about sixteen years old
and got a job mowing lawns and playgrounds

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and other governmental property. But by
then Edward was even more of an outcast

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than he had been before. Girls
in school found him odd and unattractive,

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citing his weak chin, unruly black
hair, and his slovenly appearance. Neighbors

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said that he was dull and dim
witted, and recalled that he was taken

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to going around dressed as a cowboy
with a hunting knife strapped to his waist

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even at the age he was.
But as unassuming and harmless as that may

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seem, Edward himself was anything,
but His lack of criminal record wasn't from

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a lack of trying on his part, and the victims of the crimes he

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had yet to be caught, and
his victims always seemed to be women.

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When he was still in school and
only twelve, he tormented a teacher by

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hiding a snake in her desk.
He was fourteen. He upped the stakes,

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this time subjecting his victim to a
far more strenuous and dangerous kind of

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torture. He targeted one of his
friend's sisters and whisked her away in a

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car. Edward then bound the child
and drove her down unpopulated rural country roads

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to scare her. The girl was
terrified and screamed for her life, so

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much so that she actually fainted,
and it was only then that Edward brought

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her back home. That was it. Then Edward had gotten a taste for

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what truly excited him, and he
needed more of it. In nineteen thirty

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six, on the streets of Bedford
Village, a village close to the two

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bedroom shack the Hates still lived in
together, were plenty of young women going

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to work, running errands, or
even coming home from school like Helen and

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Margaret Lynch were, and their story
was already a tragic one. Their father

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was a salesman who worked long hours
to support his family, and he needed

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all the help he could get.
He had four other mouths to feed,

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his ten year old daughter Anna eight
and seven year old Helen and Margaret and

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six year old Mary and their father
Patrick had to do it alone. Shortly

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after giving birth to Mary, Patrick's
wife was committed to the Grassland's Hospital for

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tuberculosis, and she had already been
there about six years when tragedy struck their

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family again. Patrick did what he
could, and his daughters, despite their

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young ages, knew and understood that
the youngest daughter, Mary lived with relatives,

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but Anna, Helen and Margaret would
spend their days in school before walking

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into Bedford to wait for Patrick to
finish work and pick them up in his

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car to take them home. This
was the routine, and the only change

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on the Lynch's side of things that
day was the eldest daughter, ten year

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old Anna, hadn't gone to school. That left eight year old Helen and

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seven year old Margaret on the side
of the Bedford village streets on September fourteenth,

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nineteen forty two, streets that had
already been the subject to a lot

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of activity that day alone. Sixteen
year old Edward Hate was after his next

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fix of excitement. He had already
hot wired and stolen a neighbor's car back

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in Stanford earlier that morning, and
he was now on the prow with him.

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He had a length of rope that
he was ready to use on his

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next victim. He thought he'd found
her when Edward forced another woman driving her

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car off the road. She'd just
dropped off her husband at the station and

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was heading home when Edward approached her
vehicle rope in hand. What do you

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want? She asked him. I
want you, Edward answered, but he

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had no way of knowing that the
woman he'd chosen was not alone. It

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just so happened that this potential victim
ran a kennel, and in the passenger

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seat beside her was a giant dog, a boxer. Edward eyed the dog

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and assessed the threat. He then
turned tail and went back to his own

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car. The next time, he
for a sixteen year old girl walking down

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one of the rural roads that led
into town. At least five times,

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he stopped the car and tried to
lure her inside. Each time she either

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refused or flat out ignored him,
just like she did when he attempted to

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entice her into a conversation by asking
which way Bedford was. The girl kept

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her cool and her head down,
and once she reached the populated streets of

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Bedford Village, Edward gave up on
the chase. A fifteen year old girl

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recounted a similar experience with Edward that
day, but no one could have ever

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foreseen what would happen once Edward did
have his victims firmly within his grasp.

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It was six o'clock that evening and
Patrick Lynch was running late. Ten year

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old Anna Lynch was at home,
leaving Helen and Margaret to wait for their

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father on the side of the streets. He would only miss them by a

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few short moments. In that time, witnesses saw Helen and Margaret getting into

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a car with a young man in
the driver's seat. No one except for

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their killer would ever see them get
back out. Once Edward had them,

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he bound them and gagged the two
girls before driving them out to a secluded

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area. By his own admission,
Edward then tried, and fortunately failed,

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to rape seven year old Margaret.
The child fought back and struggled. Edward

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retaliated by mutilating her with his knife
and then strangling her until she lost consciousness.

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He then bundled her back into the
car with her sister and drove to

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a nearby bridge. There Edward attempted
to throw Margaret into a shallow stream below,

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but he missed. Little Margaret hit
the pavement instead, and Edward decided

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that he was actually far from finished. I wanted to do some cutting,

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he later said. Edward then drove
back into town and bought some razor blades.

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He used them to mutilate Margaret even
more before driving back to the bridge,

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and this time Margaret hit the water
that left eight year old Ellen alone

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in Edward's car. Edward drove her
out to another remote location where he reportedly

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raped her. Upset and annoyed that
the little girl was crying, Edward then

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threw her onto the road, kicked
her around until she laid the way that

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he wanted her to, and then
drove over her head several times with his

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car. Satisfied with his work,
Edward then put Helen back into his car,

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drove her to another bridge, and
dumped her in a creek near the

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Kensico Reservoir. Edward was then seen
at a diner in Stanford. There he

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was heard bragging to the waiter about
stealing the car that he was in and

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lying about getting into a police chase. He seemed happy enough, content even

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and riding high, although any sane
person around him could have never guessed why.

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Back in Bedford Village, Patrick was
on the side of the street listening

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to witnesses describing his daughters getting into
another car only moments before he'd arrived.

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He immediately knew that something was wrong
and reported them as missing to the police.

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Margaret was found the following day when
other children stumbled upon her remains at

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the creek. Her discovery led to
a search that spanned eight states, and

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within twelve hours, a detective was
on the way out to a two room

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shack in Stanford. Witnesses at the
diner from that night before had given a

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description of Edward, his behavior and
the type of car they'd seen him driving,

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the same type of car that witnesses
had spotted the two Lynch girls getting

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into the day before. The detective
had very little to work with, but

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it turned out he didn't need much. As soon as Edward was brought in

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for questioning, he confessed to everything. He re enacted the murders, and

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then told the investigators that he'd killed
Helen and Margaret because other women had rejected

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him and he'd felt what he described
as a sudden urge come over him.

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Edward took the authorities to the sites
and was there to witness a trag and

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chilling scene as onlookers called and jeered, both demanding and threatening that Edward be

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killed on the spot. Helen's body
was pulled out of the water. A

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medical examiner later testified that he'd found
no signs of sexual assault on either of

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the bodies, but that was about
the end of any good news that he

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had to bring. He determined that
the cause of death had been drowning for

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both girls, meaning that they had
still been alive when their bodies hit the

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water. At trial, the prosecution
made it clear that they would be seeking

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the death penalty. Edward's defense did
their best to argue that he was not

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guilty by reason of insanity, but
the prosecution argued that the killings had been

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planned and calculated. The jury agreed
and found Edward guilty, a charge that

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came with an automatic and mandatory death
sentence. Just as he had been during

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his interviews with the police, Edward
remained calm and collected during his trial and

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only made a slight twitching movement in
his face when he was sentenced to death.

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He maintained that stoic facade as he
was led to the execution chamber on

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July eighth, nineteen forty three,
shortly after the inmate before him had been

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executed. Quote, I was a
fool. I guess this is my last

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day and I'm only seventeen. Four
minutes after Edward Hate sat down in the

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electric chair and sing sing prison,
two things happened. First, Edward was

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pronounced dead, and second, he
entered history books as the youngest person to

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ever be executed by electric chair in
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