But something changed.
Shortly before his fourth birthday, the little boy underwent double hernia surgery. His family noticed an immediate shift in his personality.
The energetic, bubbly child became notably subdued and withdrawn. At elementary school, teachers described him as quiet and timid, often detecting signs of abandonment as his father’s studies kept him away from home and his mother suffered from depression and hypochondria.
The behavior escalated. He began collecting roadkill, dissecting the animals and burying them beside the hut, occasionally placing skulls atop makeshift crosses.
In one disturbing incident at age 15, he decapitated a dog’s carcass, nailed the body to a tree, and impaled the skull on a stick.
In high school, the once-quiet boy became known for bizarre pranks his classmates, bleating and simulating seizures for attention