26. From the Occult, to Sexing Corpses
Hoffman had snuck into graveyards or mortuaries at least 35 times. He wanted the recently dead, so chose his victims from recent death notices in newspapers. He tried getting them in the morgue, but if he could not, he waited until they were buried. He then dug up their graves to perform rituals that involved stabbing and slashing the corpse, cutting off the head, and drinking the blood. Other times, he chewed the corpse, and if it was of a female he found attractive, he had sex with it.
When that failed to make him handsome and popular, Hoffman figured it was because the corpses were not fresh enough. So he decided to get the freshest corpses possible, by killing people. His first victims were lovers in a car. After shooting them dead, he drank the blood from their wounds, then had sex with the girl’s corpse. He confessed to liking her more than the graveyard corpses. Hoffman killed another victim, and would have kept on killing if his spree had not been cut short by his arrest. Deemed insane, he was sent to a mental asylum for the rest of his life.
