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| Full Name: | Jesse Harding Pomeroy |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Caucasian |
| Birth: | November 29, 1859 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States |
| Death: | September 29, 1932 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States - Age 72 |
| Cause of Death: | --- |
| Nicknames: | Boy Fiend / Inhuman Scamp |
| Murder Toll: | 2 murdered victims (also tortured many others) |
| Murder Time Frame: | March 1874 - April 1874 / Age 14 at first murder, 14 at last murder |
| Murder Locations: | United States - Boston, Massachusetts |
| Preferred Prey: | Children |
| Modus Operandi: | Bondage, scratching, biting, beating, slashing, stabbing, mutilation |
| Victim Disposal: | Hid girl in basement, left boy where he was murdered |
| Signature: | --- |
| Trophies: | --- |
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 Katie Curran Female - Age 10 Death: March 1874 |
 Horace Millen Male - Age 4 Death: April 1874 |
"You have told three lies." - What he told 7-year-old victim George Pratt (who survived), before beating him with a leather belt.
"I couldn't help myself." - What he said in court after being charged with several assaults (before his murders).
"What do you think of me, my appearance? Do I look like a bad boy? Is my head large?" - What he asked a cellmate while in jail.
"You can't prove anything." - What he said to police after they arrested him for the murder of victim Horace Millen.
"I am sorry I did it. Please don't tell my mother." - What he said after confessing to victim Horace Millen's murder.
"Put me somewhere, so I can't do such things." - When asked if he knew what would happen to him, for killing victim Horace Millen.
"I don't know anything about it." - What he said in response to victim Katie Curran's body being found in the basement of his family's store.
"I followed her, put my arm around her neck, my hand over her mouth, and with my knife cut her throat. I then dragged her to behind the water closet, laying her head furtherest up the place, and I put some stones and some ashes on the body." - His confession of killing victim Katie Curran.
"I don't know. I wanted to see how she would act." - When asked why he had killed victim Katie Curran.
"The feeling which accompanied the pain was that I must whip or kill the boy or girl, as the case was, and it seemed to me that I could not help doing it." - Explaining that a pain in his head had caused him to torture and murder children.
 Fiend The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer Author: Harold Schechter Pub. Year: 2000 |
 The Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy Author: E. Luscomb Haskell Pub. Year: 1892 |
 The Autobiography of Jesse H. Pomeroy Author: Jesse H. Pomeroy Pub. Year: 1875 |
