THE COPPERMASKED TRUTH OR DARE MURDERER
Mike
Strauber, the notorious Florida serial killer that went on a rampage over a
decade and a half ago, remains in Sunnyville Mental Institution with no chance
of release. Back in the 1980’s, he caught his wife with another man and his
mind snapped. He entered into a hallucinatory world, playing the childhood game
“truth or dare” in a violent new way, chopping off his ownbody parts. Treated
at Sunnyville Mental Institution by Doctor Burt Thorne very early on, Strauber
was eventually treated and “cured” and he set out to kill his wife and her
lover. He only managed to murder Jerry Powers, his wife’s lover, as Sharon
Strauber held her own with him and stabbed him with a cuting knife.
After medical recovery, Mike ended up back in the asylum. Within the safe confines of the institution, but with murder charges now pending, Strauber ended up in isolation and once again played self-destructive games of truth or dare with himself, this time mutilating his face with either a piece of glass or a shimmy knife that he constructed himself and hid from orderlies.
Thirteen months later, Strauber appeared to be on the road to recovery, and Doctor Burt Thorne and Emma Evans allowed the therapy to continue in a highly supervised shop area where Strauber eventually made a crude mask out of copper to hide his facial scars and reflect his doomsday mood. Eventually covering his face with the mask, he didn’t allow it to come off. The longer Strauber stayed in the Institution, the less of a threat he seemed to be, so authorities let their guard down on security, and the maniac ended up stabbing an ordery, crushing another, and knocking another off a high platform during an incredible escape. At the time, I was working my way through college and was one of the Orderlies that Strauber got through. He bolted past me and through a locked door that I didn’t have the key for. If I had been a little quicker…anyway, he got out, stole a car that happened to have a lot of weapons in it and went on a subsequent killing spree on his way to his wife’s house to try finishing her off.
The list of victims is stunning, even today, in a world inundated and oversaturated with serial killers and their hideous accomplishments. Strauber ran down baby carriages, shot people on a bench waiting for a bus, chainsawed an innocent baseball playing kid, and even smashed a battle mace into the face of an eledery woman who confronted him for knocking over her trash cans in front of his old home, where Sharon still resided.
Mike Strauber, the notorious Florida serial killer that went on a rampage over a decade and a half ago, remains in Sunnyville Mental Institution with no chance of release. Back in the 1980’s, he caught his wife with another man and his mind snapped. He entered into a hallucinatory world, playing the childhood game “truth or dare” in a violent new way, chopping off his ownbody parts. Treated at Sunnyville Mental Institution by Doctor Burt Thorne very early on, Strauber was eventually treated and “cured” and he set out to kill his wife and her lover. He only managed to murder Jerry Powers, his wife’s lover, as Sharon Strauber held her own with him and stabbed him with a cuting knife.
After medical recovery, Mike ended up back in the asylum. Within the safe confines of the institution, but with murder charges now pending, Strauber ended up in isolation and once again played self-destructive games of truth or dare with himself, this time mutilating his face with either a piece of glass or a shimmy knife that he constructed himself and hid from orderlies.
Thirteen months later, Strauber appeared to be on the road to recovery, and Doctor Burt Thorne and Emma Evans allowed the therapy to continue in a highly supervised shop area where Strauber eventually made a crude mask out of copper to hide his facial scars and reflect his doomsday mood. Eventually covering his face with the mask, he didn’t allow it to come off. The longer Strauber stayed in the Institution, the less of a threat he seemed to be, so authorities let their guard down on security, and the maniac ended up stabbing an ordery, crushing another, and knocking another off a high platform during an incredible escape. At the time, I was working my way through college and was one of the Orderlies that Strauber got through. He bolted past me and through a locked door that I didn’t have the key for. If I had been a little quicker…anyway, he got out, stole a car that happened to have a lot of weapons in it and went on a subsequent killing spree on his way to his wife’s house to try finishing her off.
The list of victims is stunning, even today, in a world inundated and oversaturated with serial killers and their hideous accomplishments. Strauber ran down baby carriages, shot people on a bench waiting for a bus, chainsawed an innocent baseball playing kid, and even smashed a battle mace into the face of an eledery woman who confronted him for knocking over her trash cans in front of his old home, where Sharon still resided.
The longer Strauber stayed in the Institution, the less of a threat he seemed to be, so authorities let their guard down on security, and the maniac ended up stabbing an ordery, crushing another, and knocking another off a high platform during an incredible escape. At the time, I was working my way through college and was one of the Orderlies that Strauber got through. He bolted past me and through a locked door that I didn’t have the key for. If I had been a little quicker…anyway, he got out, stole a car that happened to have a lot of weapons in it and went on a subsequent killing spree on his way to his wife’s house to try finishing her off.
The list of victims is stunning, even today, in a world inundated and oversaturated with serial killers and their hideous accomplishments. Strauber ran down baby carriages, shot people on a bench waiting for a bus, chainsawed an innocent baseball playing kid, and even smashed a battle mace into the face of an eledery woman who confronted him for knocking over her trash cans in front of his old home, where Sharon still resided.
Mike Strauber, the notorious Florida serial killer that went on a rampage over a decade and a half ago, remains in Sunnyville Mental Institution with no chance of release. Back in the 1980’s, he caught his wife with another man and his mind snapped. He entered into a hallucinatory world, playing the childhood game “truth or dare” in a violent new way, chopping off his ownbody parts. Treated at Sunnyville Mental Institution by Doctor Burt Thorne very early on, Strauber was eventually treated and “cured” and he set out to kill his wife and her lover. He only managed to murder Jerry Powers, his wife’s lover, as Sharon Strauber held her own with him and stabbed him with a cuting knife.
After medical recovery, Mike ended up back in the asylum. Within the safe confines of the institution, but with murder charges now pending, Strauber ended up in isolation and once again played self-destructive games of truth or dare with himself, this time mutilating his face with either a piece of glass or a shimmy knife that he constructed himself and hid from orderlies.
Thirteen months later, Strauber appeared to be on the road to recovery, and Doctor Burt Thorne and Emma Evans allowed the therapy to continue in a highly supervised shop area where Strauber eventually made a crude mask out of copper to hide his facial scars and reflect his doomsday mood. Eventually covering his face with the mask, he didn’t allow it to come off. The longer Strauber stayed in the Institution, the less of a threat he seemed to be, so authorities let their guard down on security, and the maniac ended up stabbing an ordery, crushing another, and knocking another off a high platform during an incredible escape. At the time, I was working my way through college and was one of the Orderlies that Strauber got through. He bolted past me and through a locked door that I didn’t have the key for. If I had been a little quicker…anyway, he got out, stole a car that happened to have a lot of weapons in it and went on a subsequent killing spree on his way to his wife’s house to try finishing her off.
The list of victims is stunning, even today, in a world inundated and oversaturated with serial killers and their hideous accomplishments. Strauber ran down baby carriages, shot people on a bench waiting for a bus, chainsawed an innocent baseball playing kid, and even smashed a battle mace into the face of an eledery woman who confronted him for knocking over her trash cans in front of his old home, where Sharon still resided.
The list of victims is stunning, even today, in a world inundated and oversaturated with serial killers and their hideous accomplishments. Strauber ran down baby carriages, shot people on a bench waiting for a bus, chainsawed an innocent baseball playing kid, and even smashed a battle mace into the face of an eledery woman who confronted him for knocking over her trash cans in front of his old home, where Sharon still resided.
Mike Strauber, the notorious Florida serial killer that went on a rampage over a decade and a half ago, remains in Sunnyville Mental Institution with no chance of release. Back in the 1980’s, he caught his wife with another man and his mind snapped. He entered into a hallucinatory world, playing the childhood game “truth or dare” in a violent new way, chopping off his ownbody parts. Treated at Sunnyville Mental Institution by Doctor Burt Thorne very early on, Strauber was eventually treated and “cured” and he set out to kill his wife and her lover. He only managed to murder Jerry Powers, his wife’s lover, as Sharon Strauber held her own with him and stabbed him with a cuting knife.
After medical recovery, Mike ended up back in the asylum. Within the safe confines of the institution, but with murder charges now pending, Strauber ended up in isolation and once again played self-destructive games of truth or dare with himself, this time mutilating his face with either a piece of glass or a shimmy knife that he constructed himself and hid from orderlies.
Thirteen months later, Strauber appeared to be on the road to recovery, and Doctor Burt Thorne and Emma Evans allowed the therapy to continue in a highly supervised shop area where Strauber eventually made a crude mask out of copper to hide his facial scars and reflect his doomsday mood. Eventually covering his face with the mask, he didn’t allow it to come off. The longer Strauber stayed in the Institution, the less of a threat he seemed to be, so authorities let their guard down on security, and the maniac ended up stabbing an ordery, crushing another, and knocking another off a high platform during an incredible escape. At the time, I was working my way through college and was one of the Orderlies that Strauber got through. He bolted past me and through a locked door that I didn’t have the key for. If I had been a little quicker…anyway, he got out, stole a car that happened to have a lot of weapons in it and went on a subsequent killing spree on his way to his wife’s house to try finishing her off.
The list of victims is stunning, even today, in a world inundated and oversaturated with serial killers and their hideous accomplishments. Strauber ran down baby carriages, shot people on a bench waiting for a bus, chainsawed an innocent baseball playing kid, and even smashed a battle mace into the face of an eledery woman who confronted him for knocking over her trash cans in front of his old home, where Sharon still resided.
The longer Strauber stayed in the Institution, the less of a threat he seemed to be, so authorities let their guard down on security, and the maniac ended up stabbing an ordery, crushing another, and knocking another off a high platform during an incredible escape. At the time, I was working my way through college and was one of the Orderlies that Strauber got through. He bolted past me and through a locked door that I didn’t have the key for. If I had been a little quicker…anyway, he got out, stole a car that happened to have a lot of weapons in it and went on a subsequent killing spree on his way to his wife’s house to try finishing her off.
The list of victims is stunning, even today, in a world inundated and oversaturated with serial killers and their hideous accomplishments. Strauber ran down baby carriages, shot people on a bench waiting for a bus, chainsawed an innocent baseball playing kid, and even smashed a battle mace into the face of an eledery woman who confronted him for knocking over her trash cans in front of his old home, where Sharon still resided.
Mike Strauber, the notorious Florida serial killer that went on a rampage over a decade and a half ago, remains in Sunnyville Mental Institution with no chance of release. Back in the 1980’s, he caught his wife with another man and his mind snapped. He entered into a hallucinatory world, playing the childhood game “truth or dare” in a violent new way, chopping off his ownbody parts. Treated at Sunnyville Mental Institution by Doctor Burt Thorne very early on, Strauber was eventually treated and “cured” and he set out to kill his wife and her lover. He only managed to murder Jerry Powers, his wife’s lover, as Sharon Strauber held her own with him and stabbed him with a cuting knife.
After medical recovery, Mike ended up back in the asylum. Within the safe confines of the institution, but with murder charges now pending, Strauber ended up in isolation and once again played self-destructive games of truth or dare with himself, this time mutilating his face with either a piece of glass or a shimmy knife that he constructed himself and hid from orderlies.
Thirteen months later, Strauber appeared to be on the road to recovery, and Doctor Burt Thorne and Emma Evans allowed the therapy to continue in a highly supervised shop area where Strauber eventually made a crude mask out of copper to hide his facial scars and reflect his doomsday mood. Eventually covering his face with the mask, he didn’t allow it to come off. The longer Strauber stayed in the Institution, the less of a threat he seemed to be, so authorities let their guard down on security, and the maniac ended up stabbing an ordery, crushing another, and knocking another off a high platform during an incredible escape. At the time, I was working my way through college and was one of the Orderlies that Strauber got through. He bolted past me and through a locked door that I didn’t have the key for. If I had been a little quicker…anyway, he got out, stole a car that happened to have a lot of weapons in it and went on a subsequent killing spree on his way to his wife’s house to try finishing her off.
The list of victims is stunning, even today, in a world inundated and oversaturated with serial killers and their hideous accomplishments. Strauber ran down baby carriages, shot people on a bench waiting for a bus, chainsawed an innocent baseball playing kid, and even smashed a battle mace into the face of an eledery woman who confronted him for knocking over her trash cans in front of his old home, where Sharon still resided.