He is able to make ugly something he fears and loathes i.e. a face, breasts, sexual organs etc. 2. It is the mutilation after death, not the act of killing, that frequently brings him sexual satisfaction. 3. This type of satisfaction is onanistic i.e. masturbatory. Only rarely are sexual fluids discovered in the cavities of the victim. Far more often, fluids are found on or around the body. For the killer, the ultimate fantasy — the sexual thrill of mutilation — occurs after death. 4. There is also the phenomenon of regressive necrophilia, when the killer places foreign objects inside the victim. I went through twenty pages of material in the book while I waited for Claire Heston to descend the steep driveway from her manor house and drive into town. I planned to follow her and talk to her, if I could. I wanted to know more about her great-great-grandfather, Douglas Shipman. I still had an hour and a half to go before I saw Gilhooley. The overcast afternoon was humid. I ran the air conditioning until my sinuses started to protest.
