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:: Blood Stained: When No One Comes Looking ::
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EXCERPTS
Forward Note:
This book is based on the autobiography of David Edward Maust. All italicized text
denotes actual portions of his writings verbatim and the self-talk derived from
schizophrenic hallucinations and a split personality.
Some names have been changed to protect the innocent.
***
When I got locked up in the Army, and then especially when I got locked up in
1981, I knew I should never be let out again. I didn’t know how to act around other
people and I was never taught how to make friends and keep them. When an
inmate says he doesn’t want out, I hope that somebody listens.
October 30, 2005
David Maust
***
Chapter One:
“Dying is a wild night and a new road.” – Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
September 10, 2008
It was exactly five years ago today that two young boys left on a journey that
promised to change their lives forever. They had no idea that they would never see
the sun rise on the horizon again, that they would end up where they started: in a
house on Ash Avenue in Hammond, Indiana. Nor did they know that they weren’t the
first to be filmed in the bloodstained theater of David Maust’s mind.
When no one comes looking, you can get away with murder.
September 10, 2003, Hammond, Indiana
Reality lay shattered, a scattered mess of jagged, broken pieces held captive
behind walls covered with mirrors. The face of death was an illusion. Behind the
mask was the road to immortality in the mind of one man; or were there two?
Demons deployed from Hell, the test of sin against the word of God. Who was
David Maust?
Two young boys sat at a bar in his second floor apartment of a house willing to hide
the unthinkable. Its windows were covered with tarps; its grey siding appeared
murky in twilight. David’s hazel eyes cloaked an inner demon reminiscent of a black
costume on a comic book cover; his sandy blond hair was sheared by his own
hands. Sharps; he held them as dear as the ropes that hung countless mirrors in
his apartment.
“Crazy Dave” neighbors called him. Once caught cutting the grass in his back yard
with scissors, no one knew or even suspected that he had swallowed a razor blade
and buried a lead pencil in his stomach years before his arrival in
Hammond.
The murders of James Raganyi and Michael Dennis were premeditated...
***
Contributors:
Thomas Vanes
Ronald Johnson
Kathi Johnson
Special Thanks To:
John “Dutch” Maust
Don Sikes
Mary Stanton
Arley Owens, Jr.
Steve Smith
AnneMarie Roberts
Cindy Evans
Alyce Welker
George Allan
Paul Jones
Daniel “Peg Leg” Kelly
Belle Kelly
Michael Griffiths
EXCERPTS
Forward Note:
This book is based on the autobiography of David Edward Maust. All italicized text
denotes actual portions of his writings verbatim and the self-talk derived from
schizophrenic hallucinations and a split personality.
Some names have been changed to protect the innocent.
***
When I got locked up in the Army, and then especially when I got locked up in
1981, I knew I should never be let out again. I didn’t know how to act around other
people and I was never taught how to make friends and keep them. When an
inmate says he doesn’t want out, I hope that somebody listens.
October 30, 2005
David Maust
***
Chapter One:
“Dying is a wild night and a new road.” – Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
September 10, 2008
It was exactly five years ago today that two young boys left on a journey that
promised to change their lives forever. They had no idea that they would never see
the sun rise on the horizon again, that they would end up where they started: in a
house on Ash Avenue in Hammond, Indiana. Nor did they know that they weren’t the
first to be filmed in the bloodstained theater of David Maust’s mind.
When no one comes looking, you can get away with murder.
September 10, 2003, Hammond, Indiana
Reality lay shattered, a scattered mess of jagged, broken pieces held captive
behind walls covered with mirrors. The face of death was an illusion. Behind the
mask was the road to immortality in the mind of one man; or were there two?
Demons deployed from Hell, the test of sin against the word of God. Who was
David Maust?
Two young boys sat at a bar in his second floor apartment of a house willing to hide
the unthinkable. Its windows were covered with tarps; its grey siding appeared
murky in twilight. David’s hazel eyes cloaked an inner demon reminiscent of a black
costume on a comic book cover; his sandy blond hair was sheared by his own
hands. Sharps; he held them as dear as the ropes that hung countless mirrors in
his apartment.
“Crazy Dave” neighbors called him. Once caught cutting the grass in his back yard
with scissors, no one knew or even suspected that he had swallowed a razor blade
and buried a lead pencil in his stomach years before his arrival in
Hammond.
The murders of James Raganyi and Michael Dennis were premeditated...
***
Contributors:
Thomas Vanes
Ronald Johnson
Kathi Johnson
Special Thanks To:
John “Dutch” Maust
Don Sikes
Mary Stanton
Arley Owens, Jr.
Steve Smith
AnneMarie Roberts
Cindy Evans
Alyce Welker
George Allan
Paul Jones
Daniel “Peg Leg” Kelly
Belle Kelly
Michael Griffiths
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Born in 1954, David Edward Maust
died in January, 2006 from a
suicide attempt he executed in his
Lake County, Indiana Jail cell.
At age four head trauma caused
probable brain damage; at age
nine he was placed in Chicago
State Hospital’s Psychiatric ward
where he lived for the next four
years. The initial commitment was
placed in part by false allegations
and later for protection from his
mother who had abused him often.
David’s Schizoid diagnoses grew
over the years to Schizophrenia and
a split personality. Two main
persona's communed in his mind,
and unlike most splits they were in
communication with each other
constantly as though they were
Siamese twins.
At age thirteen he was released
from the hospital and placed in a
children’s home in Chicago; it was
there at age fifteen he committed
his first homicidal act. Fortunately it
failed, yet he was not criminally
charged. Rather, he was sent back
to the hospital where he escaped
and went unreported. In his fifty-two
years of life he murdered five boys
and violently assaulted twelve
others, some barely escaping
death. He spent four years in Ft.
Leavenworth for the first, seventeen
years in an Illinois prison for the
second (only half of his 35-year
sentence) and after the last three in
Hammond he was incarcerated in
Lake County Jail until his suicide.
died in January, 2006 from a
suicide attempt he executed in his
Lake County, Indiana Jail cell.
At age four head trauma caused
probable brain damage; at age
nine he was placed in Chicago
State Hospital’s Psychiatric ward
where he lived for the next four
years. The initial commitment was
placed in part by false allegations
and later for protection from his
mother who had abused him often.
David’s Schizoid diagnoses grew
over the years to Schizophrenia and
a split personality. Two main
persona's communed in his mind,
and unlike most splits they were in
communication with each other
constantly as though they were
Siamese twins.
At age thirteen he was released
from the hospital and placed in a
children’s home in Chicago; it was
there at age fifteen he committed
his first homicidal act. Fortunately it
failed, yet he was not criminally
charged. Rather, he was sent back
to the hospital where he escaped
and went unreported. In his fifty-two
years of life he murdered five boys
and violently assaulted twelve
others, some barely escaping
death. He spent four years in Ft.
Leavenworth for the first, seventeen
years in an Illinois prison for the
second (only half of his 35-year
sentence) and after the last three in
Hammond he was incarcerated in
Lake County Jail until his suicide.
:: Author's Note ::
