Caleb Fairley

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Caleb Fairley
Penalty two life terms
Status in prison
Occupation Children's clothing store salesman
Spouse none
Children none

Caleb Fairley (born 1974) is a murderer from Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania.

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[edit] Early life

Fairley had been very close to his younger brother, who accidentally shot and killed himself while playing with a loaded gun. He was overweight as a child and was thus ridiculed at school, particularity by girls. He also claims to have been continuously undermined by his mother. As an adult, he become an avid collector of pornography and vampire memorabilia. He also was known to spend large quantities of his time playing fantasy role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons and Vampire: The Masquerade.

[edit] Crime

On September 10, 1995 Fairley was working alone at Your Kidz & Mine, a new children's clothing store owned by his parents in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Just before closing time Lisa Manderach (September 30, 1965 - September 10, 1995) and her 19-month-old daughter Devon (February 4, 1994 - September 10, 1995) entered the store.[1] It is believed that Fairley's liking for women who were seen as "vampire-like" [dark hair, light complexion] is what prompted his attack of Lisa and her daughter. Fairley locked the doors to the store when he realized that they were the only customers present and then strangled both of them to death. After the murder he sexually assaulted the corpse and went on to an Electric Hellfire Club concert that he had been planning to attend that night. After the concert Fairley asked then keyboardist for the band, Shane Lassen, if he could help him "in establishing a more personal relationship with Satan".[2]

[edit] Arrest and trial

Unbeknown to Fairley, Lisa Manderach had told her husband exactly where she was going. When she did not return he contacted local police, who found her car parked outside. A search of Our Kidz & Mine revealed stacks of pornography stained with what appeared to be blood and long black hairs consistent with Manderach's. The police also noted that peepholes had been drilled into the dressing rooms.

When police questioned Fairley, his face was covered with obvious scratch marks. When this was pointed out to Fairley by authorities, he said that he had received them in a mosh pit at a local club called the Asylum that catered to goths and role-players interested in Vampire: The Masquerade. When police discovered Devon Manderach's body dumped on a hill at Valley Forge National Park Fairley was charged with murder. Fairley entered a plea bargain in which prosecutors would not seek the death penalty if he would show them the location of Lisa Manderach's body.[3]

Fairley was tried in April 1996 and convicted on two counts of first-degree murder, for which he received two life sentences. He currently resides at a state correctional facility in LaBelle, Pennsylvania.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ramsland, Katherine (2007). Vampire Killers: You have a Friend in Pennsylvania. Crime Library. CourtTV. Retrieved on 2007-07-21.
  2. ^ Moynihan, Michael; Didrik Søderlind (1998). Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground. Feral House, pg. 293. ISBN 0-922915-48-2. 
  3. ^ Ramsland, Katherine (2007). Vampire Killers: You have a Friend in Pennsylvania. Crime Library. CourtTV. Retrieved on 2007-07-21.