I am not quite sure just where my interest in Antisocial Personality Disorders (APSD) and Psychopathic Behaviour first started, perhaps in private practice.  I was impressed with the number of clients referred to me for treatment who were lacking in emotion, had an absence of empathy, a need for control of others, and the necessity for immediate gratification, things being done ‘their way’ and recognition that nothing was their fault. 

Why were they sitting in my office? Well, their APSD and their behaviors were causing conflict in their lives.  They experienced marital and relationship issues, anger control issues, work conflict with supervisors, school problems and violence. I became fascinated with the commonality in the background of these patients, particularly their childhood development, and I started making notes.

Eventually, I retired and began to write.  I started writing Cutter many times, and I quit writing Cutter many times.

I would ask myself, how could I develop such an evil character?  A person who lacks the ability to form relationships is manipulating violence, suffered from childhood abuse and neglect and became a killer.  How can someone like this live a normal life among people, and no one suspects that he or she has an alter ego of a serial killer?

Cutter is a fictitious character, but he is based on diagnostic fact, although, I admit, his character is embellished from time to time.

I hope you enjoy reading the Cutter Series.  I think you will be entertained and hope that as you turn the pages, you learn and begin to understand personality disorder and how frustrating the capture of serial killers is for Law Enforcement.  You will read the centuries-old history of flaying tattoos, why people have a need to have their bodies modified, and the importance of trophies to Serial killers such as Cutter.

Thank You’’