About ten years ago I read a bio of Lesley Eugene Warren, a serial killer who murdered several women in the 1980s and ‘90s. One of his victims was a former counselor who worked at a type of group home Warren was at as a teenager (late seventies, early eighties). It mentioned early on in the book that the counselor encouraged her charges to read the works of Stephen King, and, in a particularly unfortunate incident, several of them escaped and murdered an elderly couple with an ax, scrawling REDRUM on a bathroom mirror in blood (an obvious allusion to The Shining, a Stephen King novel). To make a long story short, I remembered the case (of the elderly couple, not Warren) and tried to look it up, but couldn’t find anything. Has anyone else here heard of such an incident?
*"You traded in human cattle. You deprived the humans that were working for you of any earnings. You beat them severely,” Judge Michael H. Watson said in sentencing (Carl) Smith, formerly of the North Side of Columbus.
Investigators say Smith, who is also known as “Red Rum,” had prostitutes working for him in three cities, including Columbus. When they raided his apartment last year, they found a pistol along with cocaine and heroin."*
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/12/07/prostitution-gun-charges-sentence.html