Lou Luciano, a former FBI agent from Baltimore, is familiar with contract killings, armored car robberies, kidnappings and murders. But the case of serial killer Hadden Clark was different: Clark hung meat from the ceiling of his cell, drew caricatures of his victims like in a coloring book and believed his white-bearded cellmate was Jesus.
“You’re dealing with multiple personalities, a guy who eats moldy pork patties,” Luciano tells Rolling Stone. “He’s a killer. He’s a soulless person. There’s nothing behind those eyes. And he was the guy who held the cards because he had a pretty good idea where the bodies were.”
In an exclusive clip from Michael Bays Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior, Luciano conducts hours-long interrogations with Clark, who attributed his murders to his “Kristen E. Bluefin” persona. Clark is serving two 30-year prison sentences for the murders of 6-year-old Michelle Dorr and 23-year-old Laura Houghteling. In a later clip, former FBI agent Desiree Smith recalls that Clark was asked to wear a wig, bra and women’s clothing from brands like LL Bean and Coach while he and the detectives searched for the victims’ gravesites. During an instinct, Smith says, they locked up a horse so Clark could buy his female “Kristen” persona.
“Sometimes we spent seven, eight, nine hours with him and he talked about his alter egos the whole time,” says Luciano. “He showed us his drawings. He talked about people he had killed. He gave us information. Some of it we could confirm and knew about, others he made us believe.”
Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior follows the brutal family history of lesser-known serial killer Clark, confessions he made to his cellmate Jack Truitt, and the quest to identify the victims’ bodies. The five-part docuseries, which premiered Monday, includes recorded conversations between Bay and Clark, archived interrogation footage, and personal accounts from Clark’s family and Truitt.
In the first episode of the docuseries, viewers meet Truitt, Clark’s cellmate who was serving a 50-year sentence for murder. Clark believed the long-haired, bearded Truitt was Jesus and confessed to him where Dorr was buried. Dorr, wearing a pink-and-white polka-dot bathing suit, was last seen in 1986 walking to an inflatable pool in her father’s backyard, the docuseries reports. Luciano began conducting lengthy interrogations of Clark at the Western Correctional Institute in the late 1990s, he says, and was one of the investigators searching for Dorr’s body. More than a decade later, investigators (with help from Truitt and Clark) identified Dorr’s bathing suit and remains in a wooded area near a playground.
Houghteling, a Harvard graduate, disappeared from her Maryland home in 1992. Clark, who worked as a gardener in the Houghtelings’ household, confessed to the murder and led police to the deceased student’s grave in 1993. The docuseries also linked the disappearance and death of 9-year-old Sarah Pryor to Clark. Clark is currently eligible for parole.
“If you don’t mind the guy living in your basement or renting a room from you, then release him on probation,” Luciano says.
The first two episodes of the docuseries produced by Bay premiered on Investigation Discovery. Monday. Episodes 3 and 4 will be released on Tuesday, followed by a final episode on Wednesday. The series will also be available to stream on Max.
