A heroin peddler who travelled across the States not only calls himself “Crazy Mike” but has now claimed to have killed around 16 drifters during his travels.

His real name though is Michael Elijah Adams and he is currently serving 15 years to life for the murder of a man called John Owens in Placer County, California. Now, he has confessed to the killing of drifter Robert Allen Chassereau in 2006.

But – and here comes the crazy part – Mike confessed to killing a further 14 people, claiming his actions made him “a necessary part of society.”

He too was a drifter, having rode freight trains since the age of 14. Then, using his homelessness as a guise, he began moving large amounts of heroin across the US. During this time, as an “enforcer on society” he killed various people:

We were the big dogs. We stayed on the border. We were the violent ones, I mean, guns, drugs and girls.

Who suspects a bum with a kilo?

All good things must come to an end. It started getting hot, bodies started stacking up, questions started getting asked.

I’m proud of what I did. I’m a necessary part of society. Society labels me as a serial killer. Other people label me as an enforcer. And other people just think I’m psychotic.

He sees his jail sentence as retirement and only admitted to the rest of the crimes once he was in a prison of his choice in California – but now prosecutors are looking to move him to a jail in Virginia in which to serve his life sentence. The other murders which Mike might have played a role in is the killing of Edward Northington in 1999 after the gay homeless man’s decapitated head was found on a footbridge in Henrico County, Virginia.

What even.

[source: mirror]