Talking with Serial Killers

‘Even now, it sometimes seems my childhood was short, only a few days long. There is nothing about it I cling to and nothing to look fondly backwards toward. From where I sat then, and sit now, it was, and is, truly a pit of despair.’

Very early in his formative years, Harvey developed a facial twitch and suffered from bed-wetting until he was 13 years old. He also suffered Saint Vitus’ Dance – or childhood chorea – a disease which manifests itself with uncontrollable spasmodic jerking movements.