# So, I spent the day with an axe-murderer... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 1, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-spent-the-day-with-an-axe-murderer/158319 "2003-03-01T03:50:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-spent-the-day-with-an-axe-murderer/158319/1 "2003-03-01T03:50:22Z")
I did. Really. There’s no need to go into details, save that I spent the day being taught a course by a man who murdered his wife. I’m not making this up. I’d give a cite if a) I could find one and b) I knew how. It was a little weird. He’s a good instructor, but I felt a little unsettled when he would make comments like “Of course, this was back when I used to drink…” and I just knew half the people in the room were thinking “and you hacked your wife to death in a drunken rage?” Anyhow. If this doesn’t fit the description of “mundane pointless stuff I must share” I don’t know what does. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-spent-the-day-with-an-axe-murderer/158319/2 "2003-03-01T04:02:31Z")
What course were you in? What was he teaching? ---
**Author:** ![Spacegirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Spacegirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spacegirl)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-spent-the-day-with-an-axe-murderer/158319/3 "2003-03-01T04:10:39Z")
And why isn’t he in jail? ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-spent-the-day-with-an-axe-murderer/158319/4 "2003-03-01T04:27:12Z")
a) “Recent Developments in Oil & Gas Law” b) He has already been in jail. Paid his debt to society and all that. 10 years, I believe. In fact, he was in the news around here a year or so ago. He either wanted to be re-admitted to the bar, or to one of the other professional associations. Can’t remember exactly right now. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-spent-the-day-with-an-axe-murderer/158319/5 "2003-03-01T04:28:04Z")
Hey - I’m in the same city you are - _WHERE THE HELL IS THIS GUY NOW?!?!?_ No - really. Was it a criminology course or something at Mount Royal? ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-spent-the-day-with-an-axe-murderer/158319/6 "2003-03-01T04:58:27Z")
nope. In house course. It would appear that all is forgiven… That was part of the weirdness. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-spent-the-day-with-an-axe-murderer/158319/7 "2003-03-01T05:00:34Z")
Why do they always specify the axe? Nobody hears about gun murderers or knife murderers, but poisoners and axe murderers are always pigeonholed. It seems unfair. ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-spent-the-day-with-an-axe-murderer/158319/8 "2003-03-01T05:17:38Z")
The legacy of Lizzie Borden? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-spent-the-day-with-an-axe-murderer/158319/9 "2003-03-01T05:48:01Z")
Ahhh, there was always the **Wimbledon Poisoner** 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-spent-the-day-with-an-axe-murderer/158319/10 "2003-03-01T06:08:17Z")
It’s weird. I’m a prison guard so it always surprises me when people are shocked to meet a person who committed some violent crime. I’ve met thousands of people who committed stuff you don’t even want to imagine and to me it’s become just another day at the office. You see him as a wife-killing axe murderer, I see him as the guy that mops the floor. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-spent-the-day-with-an-axe-murderer/158319/11 "2003-03-01T06:09:50Z")
Man - I think I almost rented this guy’s old apartment about 13 years ago. :eek: