# Where did the psycho little kid killer cultural meme come from?

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**Created:** [November 12, 2009, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-psycho-little-kid-killer-cultural-meme-come-from/517296 "2009-11-12T08:01:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-psycho-little-kid-killer-cultural-meme-come-from/517296/41 "2009-11-16T06:25:44Z")

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Wasn’t there some sinister tyke from Liverpool who killed a younger child about 15 years ago?

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**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-psycho-little-kid-killer-cultural-meme-come-from/517296/42 "2009-11-16T07:08:30Z")

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> [@Krokodil](#):
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> Wasn’t there some sinister tyke from Liverpool who killed a younger child about 15 years ago?

If you read my first post in this thread…

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**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2009, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-psycho-little-kid-killer-cultural-meme-come-from/517296/43 "2009-11-17T03:22:10Z")

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Actually schizeophernia can be a childhood onset disorder. It’s quite rare thou…and usually happens when the kid is a teen/older kid rather then a little kid  
And yeah…I know that most sceziophernics aren’t dangerous.  
It’s still kind of interesting that Hollywood seems so fasinated by the duality of mental illness and killing in the same charector…even thou overall its rare.  
I think too that the meme may come from those old " Penny Dreadful" style horror comics.

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