KILLING LOBSTER BOY I 2 Minute Murder #4

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Grady Stiles was the side show freak performer known to his many beloved fans as LOBSTER BOY and by all accounts and purposes a very successful entertainer with yearly declarations to the IRS of over a million dollars in his last few years. But according to family members he also had a dark side, as many performers do, he was an alcoholic and was abusive to his family.Due to his ectrodactyly, he was unable to walk. While he often used a wheelchair, he most commonly used his hands and arms for locomotion. He developed amazing upper body strength that, when combined with his bad temper and booze, made him dangerous to others and could propel himself along the ground like a giant Cockroach.

In 1988 when Lobster Boys daughter (LOBSTER GIRL) told her father that she had met the man of her dreams and planned to leave the freak show to get marries, , Stiles realising this could effect the family act as they were known as THE LOBSTER FAMILY after all, went and shot and killed his daughter’s fiancé on the eve of their wedding. When he was brought to trial, where he openly confessed to killing the man and was convicted of third degree murder. He was not sent to prison as no state institution was equipped at that time to care for an inmate with ectrodactyly. LOBSTER BOY was instead sentenced to fifteen years but only served about 6 months because the prison could not facilitate a human crustation.

Once out of jail he soon began drinking again and his family claimed that he became even more abusive then before he went in. In 1992 after one of the shows went badly, Lobster Boy told his wife Teresa that he wanted to have another child so he could add it to the show, when she refused he chased her around the home, caught her, beat her than shoved his hand in side of her pulled out her birth control device and raped her in front of the son. It was after this the mom said the son “Something has to be done” it was then that Chris Wyant a seventeen-year-old sideshow Worker/performer was hired for the soul purpose of killing Lobster Boy the beloved sideshow freak for $1500 and a case of Beer. Who hired him was argued in court but Wyant made a plea deal and fingered Mrs Lobster Boy as the one who paid his fee.

Wyant was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 97 years in prison. Harry Newman was given life in prison for his role as the mastermind and Teresa was given 43 years in prison for conspiracy to commit murder (Later reduced on appeal to 13)

Lobster Boy’s son, Lobster Boy Jr. has always disputed the claim that Teresa had him murdered. According to him, his mother, Teresa, and father were arguing. Teresa had said 'Something needs to be done.' Teresa's son overheard this, and went to a neighbor and repeated it. The neighbor shot and killed Lobster Boy shortly after.

CLASSIFICATION: Bog standard Killer
ORIGIN: U.S.A
ACTIVE YEARS: 1992
METHOD: Gun shot
NUMBER OF VICTIMS: 1
DATE OF ARREST: N/A
STATUS: served 15 years currently on the streets among us