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Satanist Cannibal Killer Gregory Hale Emulated
The Night Stalker – ‘I Am Beyond Good And Evil’
RadarOnline.com
June 17, 2014
If imitation were the sincerest form of flattery,
then Richard “Night Stalker” Ramirez would be extremely flattered if
he were still alive today.
Gregory Scott Hale, 37, admitted to police that he
picked up a mother of six and murdered, dismembered and ate parts of
her body to emulate his role model – the 1980s sadistic California
serial killer the Night Stalker.
Hale also told police that he took Marie Hyder, 36,
to his parents’ Tennessee home where he lived to do all of these
things as part of a satanic ritual. Hale allegedly read Ramirez’s
“manifesto” obsessively, to the point where he followed it to a T.
Psychiatrist and serial killer expert Dr. Park
Dietz, who interviewed Ramirez in prison, said, “Hale thought he, too,
was the Night Stalker. He identified with Ramirez, looked up to him
and idolized him.”
Although Hale has no former run-ins with the law,
Dr. Dietz believes that Hale likely staged “rehearsals” where he would
stalk women “imagining how it would be to rape, kill or capture them.”
Dr. Steven Egger, associate professor of
criminology at the University of Houston in Clear Lake, Texas, said
that if Hale hadn’t been caught after his first murder, he probably
would have gone on to murder others.
“Killers are motivated by power, dominance and
having control over somebody else,” Dr. Egger said. “They like to play
God. Hale was not a skilled, practiced killer. I think he was just
getting started.”
However, not everything turned out as planned for
Hale, as he was caught after he asked a neighbor to help him dispose
of Hyder’s body. He confessed to everything and even told them
extremely gruesome details.
“Subject beheaded her and cut off her hands,
placing her head and hands in a plastic bucket,” the police report
states. “He cut off her feet and other body parts, placing them in
another bucket, and buried the victim’s torso in a burn pile at the
residence.”
During his trial, Ramirez drew pentagram symbols on
his hand and shouted, “Hail Satan!”
Ramirez often wrote about his dark thoughts and
posted comments on social media, too. In his Facebook posts, Hale once
wrote, “I hug the people I hate to I know how big to dig the hole in
my backyard.”
But Dr. Dietz believes Hale ultimately confessed
because he wants to be remembered as a notorious criminal.
“Many serial killers admit to comparing their ‘body
count’ to other serial killers and reading books on serial killers.
Like anyone else, they have curiosity about people like them. They
don’t want to feel alone.
“They want to feel special, but not be the only
one.”
'My daughter was mangled, butchered and chopped
up like liver': Father horrified after suspected devil worshiper
'killed and ate' a cancer-stricken mother of six
Gregory Hale, 37, charged with first-degree murder
and abuse of corpse in the death of Lisa Hyder
Hale admitted to killing the mother of six,
chopping up her body and consuming parts of corpse
Lisa Hyder was alcoholic and recently diagnosed
with ovarian cancer
Ex-husband Charles Hyder got a call from Lisa
asking to pick her up from liquor store just hours before she was
murdered
Gregory Hale offered Lisa Hyder a ride from the
store, but instead of taking her home drove her to his house
A friend said Hale was fired from a slaughterhouse
after the owner caught him performing satanic ritual and taking home
animal bones and eyeballs
By Snejana Farberov - DailyMail.co.uk
June 11, 2014
Last Friday afternoon, Lisa Hyder, a mother of six,
called her ex-husband shortly after meeting a stranger in a Tennessee
liquor store who offered her a ride home.
Just hours later, the 36-year-old woman was
murdered, dismembered and partially cannibalized by suspected Satanist
Gregory Scott Hale, according to police.
Three days after Hale's arrest on charges of
premeditated first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse, new shocking
details are beginning to emerge about the case that left a small
Tennessee community reeling.
According to Lisa Hyder's ex-husband, Charles Hyder,
the mother of their six children had struggled with alcoholism and was
recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer, WZTV reported.
The woman lived in a Chattanooga suburb and worked
in a store selling spirits in Manchester, where on Friday afternoon
she ran into Gregory Hale.
At around 2.30pm, she called her ex-husband asking
to pick her up, but he said he was in another town. He told her to
wait for him, but when Mr Hyder returned home two hours later and
called Lisa back, her phone was not answering.
Charles Hyder said he spent the weekend trying to
reach his ex-wife so their children, the youngest of them just a year
old, could talk to her like they did every day, but he could not get a
hold of her.
‘I still blame myself because I didn't go get her,
but I was down in Huntsville unloading my truck, and I wished I could
have been there a little bit faster,’ Hyder said. ‘Usually I rescue
her every time something goes wrong.’
The couple were married for six years before
splitting last year. The mother of six had a longstanding problem with
alcohol and refused to get treatment for her cancer. But Charles Hyder
said no matter what she had done, he loved her.
Lisa Hyder's family say they plan to push for a
death penalty for her alleged killer.
‘My daughter was mangled, butchered and chopped up
like a liver. There's nothing left,’ her heartbroken father, Billy
Poore, told the station WAAY.
A clearer picture also has begun to emerge of the
suspected killer and cannibal, Gregory Hale.
The 37-year-old was known among his neighbors and
acquaintances as a devil worshiper.
He was reportedly fired from a meat processing
plant after the owner caught him performing a satanic ritual.
The proprietor of the slaughterhouse recalled that
Hale would often take animal bones and eyeballs home with him.
His Facebook page is filled with disturbing,
sexually explicit and grisly images, as well as references to
cannibalism and Scandinavian mythology.
'Would tha vegetarian taste like that fake soy meat
like they got in sum fast food places???' he wrote in April.
According to his social media account, the
37-year-old has a girlfriend and a teenage son named after a Norse
god.
Some of Hale's selfies depict him brandishing
weapons, including a large steel machete, or cradling snakes.
The 37-year-old also shared an image that featured
a line of text that read: 'I hug the people I hate so I know how big
to dig their hole in my backyard.'
Coffee County District Attorney Mickey Layne said
Hale was apprehended at his home late Sunday after a neighbor told
police he'd had a conversation with the 37-year-old and had reason to
believe a homicide had been committed.
When officers arrived at the home, Layne said they
found human remains on the grounds. They then questioned Hale and took
him into custody.
Hale has an attorney and is being held in jail on
$1.5million bond. His next court date is June 23.
Detectives believe the gruesome murder took place
inside Hale's rural home on Pete Sain Road in Manchester Friday.
According to Hale's arrest affidavit, the suspect
admitted to killing Lisa Hyder and then disposing of her body by
beheading the victim and chopping off her hands and feet.
Officers who responded to Hale's residence after
receiving a tip found at least two plastic buckets filled with human
remains.
Hale buried the victim's torso in a burn pile on
his property and consumed a part of the corpse, the document stated.
Following his arrest, Hale told police he and Hyder
did not know each other until they met in Manchester and went to the
man's home, Times Free Press reported.
The two were sitting around the fire and talking
when the 37-year-old allegedly attacked and killed Hyder.
Gregory Hale offered investigators no motive for
the brutal slaying and subsequent cannibalism.
Family of slain Lisa Hyder discusses her life
and gruesome death
Waaytv.com
June 10, 2014
MANCHESTER, Tenn. (WAAY) - A Tennessee man is in
jail after authorities said he admitted killing a woman and eating
part of her body.
Gregory S. Hale, 37, was arrested late Sunday night
and charged with premeditated first-degree murder and abuse of a
corpse in the death of Lisa Marie Hyder who spent many of her teenage
years in Athens, AL. According to an arrest affidavit, Coffee County
authorities received information that a murder had occurred June 6 and
went to Hale's home on Pete Sain Road in Summitville TN.
Authorities found partial remains of Hyder's
dismembered body during a search of the home, according to the
affidavit. Authorities said Hyder's head, hands and feet had been cut
off and her torso buried in a burn pile at Hale's home. Hale also
reportedly admitted to eating part of the victim’s body after killing
her.
Several members of Hyder’s family live in
Fayetteville TN and are speaking out about her life and the
circumstances of her death.
"The way she had to leave this world is not right,”
said Hyder’s cousin Samantha Paas. Samantha and her sister Amanda
learned of their cousin’s death Monday.
Lisa reportedly did not know Hale; according to her
ex-husband Charles Hyder, Lisa met Hale at a liquor store Friday
night, a claim police confirm.
"She had suffered from an addiction to alcohol
probably her whole life," said Amanda who went on to say that her
addiction was likely part of the reason she had drifted away from
family members the past few years.
"She had some troubles, she had a really rocky life
and we say that she was a lost soul," she said.
One of the more troubling aspects of this case is
the fact that Lisa 2 of her ex-husbands asking just hours before
police believe she was killed. Charles Hyder, the father of 2 of her 6
children say he was supposed to pick her up Friday evening to bring
her to his home in Dunlap but she quit answering the phone that
evening.
Another one of her ex-husbands who lives in Georgia
told family members she called him Saturday morning and left a voice
mail begging him to come get her. He says when he tried to return the
call there was no answer.
Family members say although Lisa had been a bit
adrift in recent years they always held out hope that she would turn
her life around.
"It's so gruesome and devastating to see someone,
to see a family member or anybody, to lose their life in such a
horrible way," Amanda said while fighting back tears.
"So many people in your life tried to help but it
was not enough. God finally said enough is enough. He loves you and
will now give you the love you have always been wanting so
desperately," Samantha read, the words from her aunt who wrote them to
Hyder after learning of her fate.
Funeral arrangements are being handled by Stanford
Reed Funeral Home. Family members say her body will be cremated once
it is released. Hyder was mother to 6 children who all live with their
fathers.
Hale is currently being held on 1 point 5 million
dollars bond and is due in court June 23rd.
Tennessee man killed, dismembered and ate woman
before burying leftover body parts: police
Gregory Hale, 37, admitted to police that he cut
off Lisa Marie Hyder's head, feet and hands before burying the
36-year-old's torso in a burn pile. The alleged 'devil worshipper'
also ate some of the woman and asked a neighbor in Summitville for
help disposing of a body, police said.
BY Sasha Goldstein - New York Daily News
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
A Satanic worshipper in Tennessee killed,
dismembered and ate a woman he had just met in a disturbing
ritualistic murder, police said.
Cops learned of Gregory Hale’s gruesome secret when
the 37-year-old asked a friend for help in disposing of a body, The
Tullahoma News reported.
By that point, Hale had already allegedly killed
and beheaded Lisa Marie Hyder, 36, then cut off her hands and placed
them in a plastic bucket. He also allegedly cut of her feet and other
body parts and placed them in another bucket before burying the
woman’s torso under a burn pile behind his home.
When cops caught up to and arrested Hale on Sunday,
he admitted to the gruesome crime, cops said. Hale also told cops he
ate part of the woman, whom he had met the day she died, which
prosecutors believe was on Friday, WSMV-TV reported.
The alleged killer’s Facebook page is filled with
images and descriptions of blood, gore and killing. In one recent
post, Hale shared a photo that read, “I hug the people I hate so I
know how big to dig the hole in my backyard.”
In another, in just April, he wrote about being a
cannibal and eating a vegetarian.
“would tha vegetarian taste like that fake soy meat
like they got in sum fast food places???” he wrote, perhaps as a joke.
A post in February was dedicated to serial killer
Richard Ramirez, who died in a California prison last June.
“R.I.P. Night Stalker….Wish I could have met U…” he
wrote.
In several photos, Hale snaps himself carrying
long-bladed knives and weapons, sometimes wearing masks. Several posts
and pictures are about the metal band Slayer.
Hale at one point worked at a slaughterhouse in
rural Coffee County, WSMV reported. Former co-workers recalled him as
bizarre, and said he’d bring home animal body parts such as bones,
blood and eyeballs, the news station reported.
One neighbor told the station the alleged cannibal
was a devil worshipper.
"We will certainly be looking into everything that
we're hearing. As you can image the things that you're hearing are the
same things that we're hearing," Assistant District Attorney Marla
Holloway told WSMV.
Hale and the victim met for the first time at a
liquor store Friday night, distraught family members told WAAY-TV.
Hyder battled alcohol addiction and was a “lost
soul” who’d had a “rocky life,” a cousin told the news station.
"It's so gruesome and devastating to see someone,
to see a family member or anybody, to lose their life in such a
horrible way," Amanda Paas told WAAY.
Hale is charged with murder and abusing a corpse,
and held in lieu of $1.5 million bond. He's due in court next week.
Suspect arrested in gruesome Coffee County
murder
Reported by Larry Flowers - Wsmv.com
June 9, 2014
SUMMITVILLE, TN (WSMV) - New information is
emerging after a man was charged with murdering a woman over the
weekend in a rural part of Coffee County.
Sheriff Steve Graves said 37-year-old Gregory Scott
Hale is charged with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse in
connection with the death, which occurred at Hale's residence on Pete
Sain Road in the Summitville area.
Officials say the victim has been identified as
Lisa Marie Hyder of DeKalb County.
"Lisa was a sweet girl, very pretty girl. I can't
believe anyone would want to do that to her," said friend Vicki
Keenan.
Graves said deputies learned about the murder on
Sunday night and said Hale was allegedly attempting to get help
disposing of the body.
Some of the details of the discovery were so
gruesome, even the assistant district attorney couldn't talk about
them Monday.
"We are very early in the investigation. The
officers were out late last night into the early hours of the morning
gathering information," said Assistant DA Marla Holloway.
According to an affidavit, Hale admitted to the
murder. He told investigators he dismembered Hyder's body and buried
her torso in a burn pile at his home. He also admitted to eating part
of the victim after murdering her.
"I think they're very sick people that's what I
think. I think anybody that would do that to somebody, they're very
sick and do need help," Keenan said.
There are some disturbing posts on the suspect's
Facebook page. Back in February, he posted a tribute and goodbye to
serial killer Richard Ramirez who had recently died.
In April, he jokingly asked his followers a
question about becoming a cannibal.
And there were also photos of him wearing a mask
and holding what appears to be a long blade with a bone as a handle.
Sheriff's officials received a tip that the death
happened on or about Friday.
Several neighbors described Hale as a sick man, and
one even called him a devil worshiper, something authorities are also
hearing.
"We will certainly be looking into everything that
we're hearing. As you can image the things that you're hearing are the
same things that we're hearing," Holloway said.
Channel 4 News has also learned Hale once worked at
a meat processing plant in the Hillsboro community in Coffee County.
Sources who knew him say Hale would take home bones, blood and
eyeballs of animals from the plant.
"That's terrible. It's got to be a very sick mind
to do something like that," Keenan said.
Hale is jailed on $1.5 million bond and is due in
court on June 23.
