Lou Luciano, a former Baltimore-based FBI agent, knows his way around murder-for-hire cases, armored car robberies, kidnappings, and homicides. But serial killer Hadden Clark’s case was different: Clark hung meat from his cell ceiling, drew coloring-book-like caricatures of his victims, and believed his white-bearded cellmate was Jesus.
“You’re dealing with multiple personalities, a guy eating moldy pork patties,” Luciano tells Rolling Stone. “He’s a killer. He’s a soulless individual. Behind those eyes, there is nothing. And he was the guy holding the cards because he had a pretty good idea where the bodies were.”
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In an exclusive clip from Michael Bay’s Born Evil: The Serial Killer and The Savior, Luciano conducts hours-long interrogations with Clark, who attributed his murders to his “Kristen E. Bluefin” persona. Clark is serving two 30-year sentences for the killings of 6-year-old Michelle Dorr and 23-year-old Laura Houghteling. In a later clip, former FBI agent Desiree Smith recalls Clark requested to wear a wig, a bra, and women’s clothing from brands like L.L. Bean and Coach while he and detectives searched for the burial sites of victims. During one instinct, Smith says they shut down a Ross, so Clark could shop for his female personality “Kristen.”
“There’d be times where we spend seven, eight, nine, hours with him, and he’s talking all about his alter egos,” Luciano says. “He’s showing us his drawings. He’s talking about people that he killed. He’s given information up. Some of it we could corroborate and knew about, some of it he was playing us.”
Born Evil: The Serial Killer and The Savior traces lesser-known serial killer Clark’s violent family history, confessions he made to his cellmate Jack Truitt, and the search to identify the victim’s bodies. The five-part docuseries, which premiered Monday, includes Bay conducting recorded conversations with Clark, archival interrogation footage, and personal accounts from Clark’s family and Truitt.
In the first episode of the docuseries, viewers meet Truitt, Clark’s cellmate who served a 50-year sentence for murder. Clark believed the long-haired, bearded Truitt to be Jesus and confessed to him where Dorr was buried. Dorr, dressed in a pink and white polka-dot bathing suit, was last seen in 1986 walking to an inflatable pool in her father’s backyard, the docuseries reports. Luciano began conducting lengthy interrogations with Clark at the Western Correctional Institute in the late Nineties, he says and was among the detectives in search of Dorr’s body. More than a decade later, detectives (with the help of Truitt and Clark) identified Dorr’s bathing suit and remains in a wooded area near a playground.
Houghteling, a Harvard graduate, disappeared from her Maryland home in 1992. Clark, who was a gardener at the Houghteling household, confessed to the murder and led police in 1993 to the late college student’s gravesite. The docuseries also linked the disappearance and death of 9-year-old Sarah Pryor to Clark. Clark is currently eligible for parole.
“If you’re comfortable with this guy living in your basement or renting a room from you, then put him out on parole,” Luciano says.
The first two episodes of the Bay-produced docuseries premiered on Investigation Discovery Monday. Episodes 3 and 4 will release Tuesday, followed by a final episode Wednesday. The series will also be available to stream on Max.
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