‘Fags Die’
`Hardened homicide detectives were disgusted and thought they might be tracking a serial killer or a psychopath. But the killer viewed his work as art. He placed a smiling ceramic angel on the shoulder blade above the message he wrote on his victim’s flesh with a black marker: “FAGS DIE.” In a final affront, he’d shoved a large, plastic Ray-O-Vac flashlight deep into the dying man’s rectum. [..]
Gregory Michael Pisarcik loved alcohol, but not as much as he loved heroin, cocaine, PCP, marijuana and especially methamphetamine. Growing up in New Jersey, he was a popular high school student with many girlfriends, but he got addicted to drugs. He moved to California to “clean up” his life, according to his sister Kimberly. The drugs would prove too enticing, however. [..]
Three days later in Ventura County, deputies spotted Pisarcik even though he’d changed the license plates on Leggs’ car. After a three-hour chase up to speeds of 100 mph — during which Pisarcik fired a gun and drove on the wrong side of a highway — officers trapped him. Armed with Leggs’ .357 revolver, he refused to leave the car. Instead, he smoked meth from a pipe while deputies fired shotguns at the Town Car’s tires.
[..] During a jail interview, he told a fourth officer who had asked him to calm down, “I am not going to calm down because I killed someone and kicked his balls in, stuffed a flashlight up his ass and beat him with a bottle. . . . I hate gays.”‘
