Dodd now fantasized about the experimental surgeries he wanted to perform on his victims. I don t know. I wanted to eat the genitals. Dead children would be a cheap way to feed my slaves if I ever had any. He planned to cut a boy s genitals off and let him slowly bleed to death, or keep him alive and make him watch as he cooked the boy s genitals to eat, forcing him to eat some of it.
Many sexual murderers thrive on fantasies to foment their sadistic impulses.
The more they fantasize, the more they lose touch with reality, and the more they distance themselves from others who might be able to help pull them back. As sexual sociopaths continue to nurture these fantasies of killing and torturing people who are little more than objects to them, they diminish any innate sympathy for other human beings. Their victims become puppets of their cruel imaginations. In order to enact their fantasies they must dehumanize their victims, and torturing is the ultimate dehumanization. For some reason, the children s very helplessness and innocence is something Dodd wanted to destroy.