The Boy Who Poisons His Classmates…

Here at Twisted Minds we have covered the gruesome stories of many young murderers. In these cases, individuals have shown different motives and ways of taking a light, and many of them are incredibly unique. One of those incredible cases is that of Graham, a young boy. who did not have a typical childhood, his mother unfortunately died a few months after his birth and his father sent him to live with his uncle and aunt, which separated him from his older sister and he was then relocated once again. Living with his father and his new stepmother, all this turmoil is turbulent for anyone, but for Graham it fueled an obsession with a subject that could prove deadly to those around him;

In fact, the people closest to him had to discover what the young man was capable of. the hard way welcome to Twisted Minds my name is James and today we take a look at the case of Graham Young Foreigner was born on September 7, 1947 in Middlesex England to Margaret Young unfortunately her mother had developed pleurisy during her pregnancy with Graham and although the The child was perfectly healthy. Margaret died of tuberculosis only three months after his birth. Eventually, Graham was sent to live with Aunt Winnie, who lived near him, while his sister was sent to live with her grandmother after years of living with his loving aunt and her uncle.

Graham became very close to Winnie and her husband Jack hated being away from them when he was two and a half years old. Graham's father remarried a woman named Molly and the family was reunited under the same roof, although there may have been many factors that explained why Graham broke up. By doing what he did, it was while the family was back together that he began to show signs of being a strange child. Now it's not unusual for children to become obsessed with their role models, actors, athletes or even a family member, but in Graham's case they were famous killers. like Dr.

Crippen, whom the young man idolized, he even studied the book 60 Famous Trials with his favorite chapter telling the story of William Palmer, a Victorian doctor who poisoned his wife and several others, a clear inspiration for his evil acts to the age of 12 years. He began to become obsessed with one of the worst Adolf Hitler in history and admired his role as a Nazi leader. Shortly afterward he began boasting about his interest in the occult and claimed that he was part of a local coven led by a man he had met at the local library. Graham was a quiet child with very few friends, most of his schoolmates kept quiet. distances and found it a little creepy.

His teachers resented his habit of wearing an old swastika badge to school at a time when World War II was still fresh. Everyone's Minds Graham had no interest in school except for one subject, chemistry, of all areas of subject, this creepy little Walter White was obsessed with toxicology, also known as the study of

poisons

, of course, the School didn't delve too deeply into the subject, which meant Graham began teaching himself in the library by reading books about

poisons

and forensic science. The few children who played with Graham described how he tried to get them to sniff ether with him, which is a liquid. highly flammable, and also tried to involve them in occult ceremonies, even sacrificing a cat in the name of cultism;

In fact, several cats that lived in the area went missing around this time, which could have been more victims of Graham Young comparing her to his aunt and uncle. Graham told his

classmates

how much he hated her stepmother Molly, even showing them a small clay voodoo doll he had made of her, filled with pins, which he carried with him claiming that he could hurt her with it. Graham later told psychiatrists that he often dreamed about how much happier his life would have been if his real mother had experienced some of this hatred may have been due to the fact that Molly was a strict mother to Graham and after She confiscated a dead mouse that he had poisoned, he drew a tombstone with words in memory of young Molly's hatred.

RIP. engraved in him despite this hatred and the image that expresses how much he wanted her dead. Young Molly was not the first subject chosen for Graham's sick experiments with poison. His interest in chemistry had helped him befriend another boy who loved chemistry. science named Christopher Williams the couple often ate their packed lunches together at school and sometimes exchanged sandwiches Before long Williams began to suffer regular attacks of unbearable headaches and cramps his mother didn't know what to think wondering if he might have been faking afterwards Looking at the boy, doctors could only suggest that he was suffering from a severe migraine, which could explain the headaches and vomiting.

The possibility of one of his friends from school poisoning him would never have occurred to them, mainly because at 13 years old it would be impossible for them to obtain the poisons they needed. What he didn't take into account was the knowledge and coldness of his new friend Graham, after talking about different poisons and convincing two different local chemists that he was 17 years old, the chemists believed he needed the poison for a study and It was with enough antimony. digitalis arsenic and thallium to kill 300 people despite having all that poison that was contained in the doses he gave to William, so why would he try to kill his friend?

Well, it turned out that Williams once told Yum that he was taking a girl. The two enjoyed going on a date for a TV show that was conveniently taped after Williams started getting sick. Graham took his place on the date. On another occasion, the two boys got into a fist fight with Graham shouting: I'll kill you for this. Everyone thought that was it. It was just an empty threat, but little did they know that Graham was planning revenge on him. Graham also did a good job of pretending to care because his sick friend was secretly watching him with great fascination and was able to correctly predict what would happen next with his illness with friends like these who need enemies while Christopher was completely unsuspecting other students. of John Kelly High School were much more tired of the strange and eccentric young Graham, even nicknamed him the Mad Professor to describe his obsessive interest in experimenting with chemicals Clive Krieger, a friend of Christophers remembered the downright creepy illustrations that Graham gave him would be shown in the drawing depicting Clive hanging from a gallows over a vat of acid with syringes marked poison stuck in him, understandably this made Clive terrified of the young man, fortunately for his school friends, Graham deduced They would not be satisfactory as human guinea pigs as he could not adequately observe their condition and the effects the poison was having, leading the boy to reserve his most daring and potentially deadly experiment for a group of test subjects who could observe close up. and staff from his own family, so here was Graham, a boy who devoted all his time to his solitary hobby of collecting, mixing, and administering poisons to Graham's father.

This was just a hobby for the lonely boy, even cheering him up by buying him a chemistry set to help him in his studies, he didn't know that was like buying a set of knives for Jack the Ripper. Graham spent hours perfecting his craft and absorbing all the information he could for Graham. young, he had gained the power over life and death and began serving tea. laced with poisonous concoctions to make his family and a select number of students at the school feel sickly after watching his health deteriorate in 1961, his stepmother Molly began to develop terrible stomach cramps and Graham's father and older sister did as well.

They began to suffer similar pains soon after despite all these people in their life getting sick, no one suspected the quiet boy had anything to do with the mysterious illnesses, assuming it was just some kind of common contagious stomach virus. Things eventually took a massive turn when Graham's sister Winifred became seriously ill while she was on her way to work. When she collapsed, she was taken to the hospital where doctors discovered the poison Belladonna, the ancient extract of belladonna, in her system. Incredibly, the poisoning was never related to the child and everyone suspected that the Law was impossible for a child to perform, much less be capable of. to seize the Essence of Belladonna while this was happening.

Graham's behavior began to become increasingly strange. His idolization of Adolf Hitler worsened and the boy decided to wear a swastika everywhere he went to let the world know that he believed in the Nazi regime. Even his experiments began to grow in scale when one of his experiments exploded in the kitchen of the family home. Incredibly, Graham escaped the accident unharmed on April 21, 1962. Graham's twisted ax took a deadly turn when his stepmother Molly Young was rushed to hospital in excruciating pain, she died later that night, it was finally discovered. that Graham had been slowly poisoning his stepmother's tea with ant money, to which she developed a natural tolerance the night before her death, he switched her to thallium to speed up the process and end the life. from the woman who cared for him at the time, Graham was not a suspect in the murder, the main reason was because Molly was cremated so her body could not be studied, this left her death due to natural causes, eventually Graham's aunt began to think about the cause of Molly's death remembering that Graham was obsessed with poisons unable to get rid of the feeling that something was not right sent Graham to a psychiatrist who recommended that he call the police on May 23, 1962 Graham young man was arrested and confessed to the murder of his stepmother, as well as the poisoning of other members of his family who were still suffering from the mysterious illness, this led to him being detained under the mental health law at Broadmoor hospital after The evaluation of two psychiatrists diagnosed him with a personality disorder and schizophrenia after he turned nine. years Graham Young was released after officials claimed he had made a full recovery, unfortunately this was not the case at all because prison psychiatrist Graham had studied medical texts within the hospital and had learned even more about the poisons he continued experimenting on inmates and staff.

It was even rumored that he would extract cyanide from Laurel Bush leaves in the hospital and then use them to poison others within the secure facility, eventually leading to him murdering fellow inmate John Barrage, just as he did when he was younger. , no one suspected that Graham had been involved in the apparently natural death after his release Graham Young began working as a quartermaster at John Hadland Laboratories in Hartfordshire. It may seem crazy that a poison-using killer would be hired at a location full of chemicals but no thallium was stored at the location. That didn't stop Graham, who obtained the poison from a chemist in London shortly after Graham began the job.

His foreman Bob Eagle became seriously ill before dying in agony, as you probably guessed that Graham had been making poisoned tea not only for him but also for his others. colleagues and an illness quickly spread through the workplace, but was once again mistaken for a virus. It's incredible that no one suspected the man. I can only assume that he kept her criminal record and mental illness a secret from him when he applied for the lab position. More people were poisoned at the hands of Graham Young, who would take the life of his last victim and co-worker Fred Biggs.

An investigation was eventually opened and Graham was arrested on November 21, 1971. After a search of his belongings, police discovered thallium and more poisons in his home, including antimony and economics. They also found a journal of notes detailing what he had administered, to whom it affected, and whether each person would be allowed to live or die. These were literally the investigative notes of a murderer. Graham pleaded not guilty. at Saint Albans Crown Court trying to claim that the diary was just a fictional novel he was working on in a cute trigram despite his statement after 10 days of deliberation the man was sentenced to life behind bars Graham was sent to the infamous Parkhurst to serve his sentence a place where he met an equally infamous murderer known as Ian Brady, also known as one of Moore's murderers due to the notoriety of his case.

Graham Young lived in constant fear of tasting his own medicine and being poisoned by one of his fellow prisoners. While at Parker's house, there was only one person he felt safe with, but ironically he was one of Moore's killers. Ian Brady in 2001, Brady managed to get out of prison a book called The Gates of Janus in which he talks about his thoughts on several serial killers, including his good friend Graham Young in the book Brady remembers that Graham sometimes grew aHitler's mustache and trimmed it with a razor until the skin around it was red and prison staff had to stop him from doing so.

He also told how the two played chess. together every day preferring to play with black pieces, as they were a dominant color of the Nazi SS even though he thought Brady always beat Graham. Ian Brady also described in his book that the only music Graham listened to was Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds and hit the road Jack by Ray Charles also spent time having fun reading the newspaper obituaries which for normal people are not exactly the funny pages that Grady used to fantasize about his friend poisoning him, which gave the killer a sickening emotion that he also thought about. that Graham would one day commit suicide, even saying that it was difficult not to empathize with Graham Young, the thoughts that go through the heads of these murderers surprise me.

They say you have to be careful with the silent ones and in the case. by Graham Young, that is certainly the case After years of brewing poisons and disguising them in tea and food, the so-called mad scientist was finally arrested. Ironically, it was not the law that stopped the murderer, but the hands of time at 42 years old. Imprisoned in Parkhurst Prison, Graham Young died after suffering a terrible heart attack on August 1, 1990. Heart attacks can be caused by a number of things, one of which is the effect of poison, which means that In his final moments the cold-hearted killer felt the agony his own victims had felt before taking his last breath.

Some would say there is some poetic justice in that. Thanks for tuning in to Twisted Minds, that was the case for Graham Young and why. Don't go ahead and click on one of the two videos on your screen to watch another one of our videos.