The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (72 page)

hunt for crocodiles, then killed them, sodomized their describing defecation by his female victims at the corpses, and fed them to the hungry reptiles. Back in moment of death. When consumption of feces is

New York, he strangled a Kingston woman on June 16, involved, as with Albert Fish, the proper term is 1923, “for the fun it gave me.”

coprophagia.

Five years later, on August 16, 1928, Panzram was
Gerontophilia
—sexual attraction to the elderly, seen arrested following a series of burglaries in Washington, in cases like that of ALBERT DESALVO, where a

D.C. Conviction earned him 20 years in Leavenworth, much younger killer preys on senior citizens for
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sex (as opposed to robbery of victims who are sim-the Bahamas to testify in defense of another ex-cop held ply weaker and defenseless). Attraction to older for trial on drug-running charges.

men is termed
alphamegamia;
fixation on elderly Even then, the worst was yet to come. On May 7, women is called
graophilia
or
matronoloagnia.

1986, Pardo and 25-year-old Roland Garcia were
Hematophilia/hematomania
—fixation on blood, arrested on murder charges, accused in the execution-commonly seen in cases of VAMPIRISM such as that style slayings of drug dealer Ramon Alvero Cruz and of JOHN HAIGH.

his girlfriend, Daisy Ricard, who were shot and killed
Mutilation
—often seen in sadistic or sexually motion April 23. Weeks later, on June 11, Metro Dade offi-vated crimes.
Colobosis
refers specifically to muti-cials announced that Pardo and Garcia were linked to a lation of the male genitalia,
mazoperosis
to the total of nine murders—victims including six men and female breasts,
perogynia
to mutilation of women three women—dating back to January 1986. Detective (primarily the genitals), and
necrosadism
to muti-Ted MacArthur told the press, “They were drug ripoffs, lation of corpses (sometimes performed days or and quantities of cocaine were taken from the scene.”

weeks after the murder as the killer revisits the The killing spree had ended with Ramon Alvero Cruz, crime scene).

alleged to be Pardo’s underworld employer since he was
Necrophilia
—sexual fixation with death and corpses.

fired by Sweetwater PD. As evidence against the killer When the obsession proceeds to intercourse, it is cop, prosecutors cited Pardo’s diary, which included properly termed
necrocoitus. Necrochlesis
refers written entries about the murders along with news clip-more specifically to sex with a female corpse.

pings and photographs of several bloody corpses. Nazi
Pedophilia
—the proclivity for sex with children, seen memorabilia recovered from Pardo’s home, together in many serial child killers such as ARTHUR GOODE.

with the prisoner’s own statements, revealed that he Fixation on young boys is also called
pederasty.

was also an ardent admirer of Adolf Hitler, believing
Pyromania/pyrophilia
—sexual release obtained from that Jews and blacks were inferior species deserving of setting and/or watching fires, a condition found in extermination.

many cases of ARSON.

Legal maneuvers delayed Pardo’s trial for two years,
Sadism
—arousal dependent on the suffering of oth-but prosecutor David Waksman stood by the state’s ers, named in the FBI
Crime Classification Manual
original theory of an ex-cop gone bad, addicted to (1992) as one of the major motives for SEX CRIMES

cocaine and easy money, killing coke dealers to rip off and serial murder.

their stashes, eliminating any witnesses who crossed his
Voyeurism
—generally the passive act of watching path. Pardo denied it, painting himself as a one-man vig-others undress or have sex, typically accompanied ilante squad committed to eliminating “parasites” and by masturbation; spying sometimes turns deadly in

“leeches” from law-abiding society. His court-appointed the face of mounting frustration. Charles Floyd in lawyer, Ronald Guralnick, was committed to a different Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Rickey Brogsdale in Wash-tack, presenting an INSANITY DEFENSE. “The man is ington, D.C, present two examples of voyeurs

crazy,” Guralnick told reporters. “All you have to do is whose activities escalated to murder of those they listen to him to know he’s totally out of his mind.”

secretly observed.

And, indeed, Pardo seemed intent on proving that point when he took the witness stand in his own defense on April 13, 1988. Testifying against Guralnick’s advice, Manny didn’t bother to deny the killings;
PARDO, Manuel, Jr.

rather, he regretted that his final body count had been Manny Pardo was 21 years old when he joined the so low. “Instead of nine,” he told the court, “I wish I Florida Highway Patrol in 1978, but his first stint in could have been up here for ninety-nine.” Furthermore, law enforcement was short lived. Accused of falsifying he declared, “I enjoyed what I was doing. I enjoyed more than 100 traffic warnings and correction notices, shooting them. They’re parasites and they’re leeches, he was allowed to resign a year after he joined the force and they have no right to be alive. Somebody had to kill in lieu of being fired. It seemed a small concession at the these people.” He shot his victims multiple times after time, but it was all he needed: two months later, Pardo death, Manny said, to further “punish” them for their was hired by the Sweetwater Police Department to crimes, and he had taken Polaroid snapshots of the patrol a Miami suburb. Still, his problems continued, corpses, afterward burning some in an alabaster ash-and in 1981, Pardo was one of four officers charged in tray. “I sent their souls to the eternal fires of damnation a series of brutality cases filed by the state attorney gen-of hell,” he testified, “for the misery they caused.”

eral’s office. Those charges were later dismissed, but Pardo staunchly denied the state’s claim that he, him-Pardo was fired on January 21, 1985, after he flew to self, was a mercenary drug dealer. The very idea was
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“ludicrous” and “ridiculous,” he said. Prosecutor were automatically appealed to the Florida Supreme Waksman asked about the $50,000 Pardo had earned Court. There, on March 6, 1990, public defender from selling two kilos of stolen cocaine, the sum Calianne Lantz told the assembled justices that Pardo recorded in his diary, but Manny insisted that he had was insane when he committed his nine murders. Assis-kept only $2,000 for himself—the bare minimum

tant Attorney General Ralph Barreira disagreed, required to purchase guns and ammunition. After describing Manny as a brute who simply liked to kill.

Pardo remarked that bullets cost him ten cents each, The court agreed with Barreira, affirming Pardo’s con-Waksman asked him whether it had cost him only viction and the “special circumstances” which allowed $1.30 to kill two victims who were shot a total of 13

his execution under Florida state law. A year later, on times. Pardo grinned as he replied, “That’s a pretty May 13, 1991, the US Supreme Court effectively good investment, isn’t it?”

upheld that decision, denying Pardo’s plea for a writ of With Pardo’s sanity at issue, both sides called psychi-certiorari.

atrists to testify about his mental state. Syvil Marquit, Pardo, meanwhile, had managed to attract at least a appearing for the defense, reported that Pardo was handful of admirers while his case was winding through insane and had been at the time of the nine murders.

the courts. One such, a self-described friend of the con-Manny was competent for trial, Marquit said, and victed serial killer, voiced his support in a letter to the understood the physical consequence of his actions,
Orlando Sentinel Tribune,
published on April 22, 1990.

“but he doesn’t know right from wrong.” Court-

It read, in part:

appointed psychologist Leonard Haber, on the other hand, testified for the state that Pardo was “sane, but
Manny was never accused of corruption. He was let go
evil.” Manny, for his part, agreed with the state, at least
for his overzealousness in pursuit of criminals—no mat-in regard to his sanity. As for psychologists, he told the ter who they knew or whose relatives they were. And court, “They’re whores. Pay them enough money and lest anyone get the idea that he just cruised around gun-they’ll say anything.”

ning people down, let me point out each of his victims Pardo’s extreme racist views may have hurt him as was a thoroughly investigated, tried, convicted, and much as the physical evidence of his guilt when he executed (by him) drug dealer whom Pardo had failed appeared before a jury that included five blacks and to get off the streets via the normal criminal justice sys-two Jews. Metro Dade detectives listed the Nazi para-tem. Manny Pardo doesn’t deserve condemnation, he phernalia found in his home and described the

deserves a commendation.

swastika tattoo worn by one of his dogs, a Doberman pinscher. Manny pitched in with testimony that Adolf In fact, as even cursory research would have shown, Hitler was a “great man” whose activities had inspired Manny had been fired in Sweetwater for “showing a Pardo to read more than 500 books on Nazism. The lack of good judgment and a habit of lying”—specifi-jury deliberated for six hours on April 15 before con-cally in defense of an accused drug dealer—but the victing Pardo of nine murders and nine other felony details hardly mattered. He was awaiting execution at counts, including robbery and use of a firearm in com-Starke, the state’s maximum-security prison . . . but he mission of a crime.

was not entirely out of action yet.

Court reconvened five days later to consider Pardo’s In March 1996 the Miami Herald revealed that sentence. Attorney Guralnick and Manny’s parents Pardo, now christened the “Death Row Romeo,” had pleaded for leniency, citing his deranged mental state, been placing personal ads in tabloid newspapers, while prosecutor Waksman argued the reverse. “He was attracting lonely female pen pals who had mailed him weird, weird, weird,” Waksman said, “but he was not thousands of dollars in return for hollow promises of insane.” Pardo, meanwhile, was determined to remain love. The Herald reported that Manny had once accu-the star performer in his own private drama. “I am a mulated some $3,530 in his prison canteen account, soldier,” he told the court. “I accomplished my mission, most of it sent to him by women, but prison officials and I humbly ask you to give me the glory of ending my declared that he had broken no rules, “although he may life and not to send me to spend the rest of my life in have broken several hearts.” The lure was an ad that state prison. I’m begging you to allow me to have a glo-painted Manny in a near-heroic light. It read: rious end.” The jury complied, and Judge Phillip Knight accepted their recommendation, handing down one FLA. 116–156 CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTE

death sentence for each of Pardo’s nine murders, plus a INMATE. Ex-cop Vietnam vet. Took law into own term of 15 years in prison for the non-capital charges.

hands and ended up on Death Row. He needs letters His commitment to death notwithstanding, Pardo from sensitive-understanding female, for real-honest made no objection when his conviction and sentence relationship.

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One who responded was Barbara Ford, a 46-year-

the hypocrite you truly are. I’m not a very patient per-old cleaning woman from Findlay, Ohio. Three weeks son so I hope you respond to my request immediately.

after she answered Pardo’s ad, Ford received a letter The choice is yours.

from Manny, along with several news clips describing his police career in a favorable light. The letter told her, Pardo replied on November 2, 1995, with all the

“I want one special lady in my life. I don’t play emo-arrogance of a condemned prisoner who knows he is; tional games cause I hate emotional games. I also hate effectively untouchable.

liars and users.” From the beginning, Pardo’s correspondence—always addressed to “the love of my

Barb,

life”—swiftly degenerated into a litany of complaints, I hope you are in good health. I am reading your letter invariably closing with mention of his need for “a few and am amazed you think your threats would affect me bucks a week to buy personal items like stamps, paper, at all! You and your troubled life will also be exposed.

shampoo, etc.” One note described a tearful prison visit In addition, my attorney will have a field day with you from his daughter, quoting her as saying, “Daddy, when and that will be your nightmare lawsuit for slander, etc.

I’m older and able to work, I will buy you a radio so You are a bitter and vindictive woman.

you can listen to music and I will send you money from my weekly check so you can buy coffee, shampoo and God bless,

your other needs.”

Manny

In the meantime, Barbara Ford was happy to take up the slack, sending Pardo $430 from her yearly income Ford took her case to Florida governor Lawton

of $7,500. Another “love of his life,” mailing cash at Chiles on November 18, asking, “What kind of people the same time, was 54-year-old Betty Ihem from Okla-are you in Florida? You have a guy on Death Row, and homa who began corresponding with Pardo 10 months he still hurts people.” Her reply came from Judy before he hooked Barbara Ford. By the time Ford Belcher at the Florida Department of Corrections on entered the picture, Pardo and Ihem were addressing November 29, advising Ford that no law forbade pris-each other as husband and wife, Betty collecting 275

oners from placing personal ads or soliciting gifts from letters from her incarcerated lover, sending him $1,200