Adam Graham

But the woman's name was Blanche.

I mean, if you're going to say we changed the names, why did you leave the name of the victim the same?

But...

We do know the story upon which this was based.

Thanks once again to the ever-vigilant Dr. Joseph Webb writing on the stories behind the big story.

And the person who did this came to town using the name George Ruffledge.

He was a San Diego butcher.

His real name at birth was Pascal Boyer.

And he grew up in Missouri and he lost his parents.

His father died when he was four.

And then his mother passed away when he was 15.

And then he married, he ran a grocery, young, ran a grocery store and had marital problems, started drinking, tried to commit suicide.

And then they moved to Colorado, changed their names, and then moved to California, and then he got a job in construction, and some scaffolding fell on him.

And after that point, he had

injuries that were or he had actions that we would now associate with some sort of traumatic brain injury.

Webb writes there were a series of incidents some innocent and some not where he forgot significant things that he had done to others one of which was beating his wife.

Doctors told him he was doing too much and was burning the candle at both ends.

The problem with forgetfulness

of even the most recent personal action and events persisted.

In court testimony, his wife related that he would sometimes forget he was living her, asking when she arrived in town.