Free Body Dump by Fred Rosen Page B

occupations are also characteristic. Frequently, they lie and cheat to get what they want, especially sex or power. They may act impulsively and fail to plan ahead.
    Thus, when Francois killed the women in his house, he may have failed to plan in advance about what to do with the bodies. Seeing no other recourse except exposure, he secreted them in the attic, where they stank the place up.
    People who exhibit this diagnosis may also have a high risk of unprotected sex with prostitutes. Francois was doing that, but so far he was lucky enough not to have contracted any debilitating diseases. Most important, sociopaths do not feel empathy. They are unfeeling, callous individuals who are contemptuous of the feelings and sufferings of others.
    If ever a description was written that fit Kendall Francois, this was it. He could kill and would continue to kill without thinking twice about it. No thoughts of guilt, just survival. Kendall Francois cared nothing for his victims or the families they left behind. He cared nothing for the way they suffered and the lack of a decent burial. All Kendall Francois cared about was Kendall Francois.
    The DSM further points out that Antisocial Personality Disorder tends to be exhibited in bleak, urban settings, where the individual exhibiting such a disorder is far down the economic ladder. Francois also seemed to fit these descriptions. Not only did he make little money at his jobs, he was picking on women in an urban setting. Yet it would have been literally impossible for any of Francois’s teachers in his childhood and adolescence to diagnose him.
    The DSM says that community samplings show that only three percent of men and one percent of women fall into this category. The diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder itself cannot occur before the individual is eighteen years old. Thus, while Francois might have exhibited in childhood and adolescence certain signs of this disorder, like the fight he had in high school, the best anyone could have done was bring him to a psychiatrist for treatment. Even then, such treatment would probably have been ineffective. The DSM is clear that Antisocial Personality Disorder is a chronic illness, though its symptoms may lessen with age, particularly by age forty.
    In 1997, Kendall Francois was only twenty-seven years old. His symptoms showed no signs of abating. He had displayed enough aggressive behavior with prostitutes to be one of the many suspects Siegrist had on his list. Yet nothing pointed to the big man directly. Without a “smoking gun,” there was no point dragging him in for questioning.
    September 1997
    It didn’t make the papers. It was just another prostitute missing and this one was black.
    Newspapers and the rest of the media might say that everyone was given equal treatment—black, white, it didn’t make any difference. Dead was dead, missing was missing and it was all fodder for the news machine. It was also a lot of garbage.
    Newspapers give very little ink to missing women when they happen to be prostitutes. And black. Witness Michelle Eason. Eason was black, 5’2” and 115 pounds. Except for her skin color, she matched the general description of the other missing women. Eason had disappeared off Poughkeepsie’s streets. No one could find her. Michelle Eason was subsequently reported missing on October 9. Like the others, her disappearance caused nary a ripple and failed to make the papers.
    On the same day Eason disappeared, town police received a complaint that a 1984 two-door red Subaru was illegally parked at a medical office in the town. A quick computer search showed that the car was registered to Kendall L. Francois.
    The Francois home was contacted and the family was asked to move the car. They did. Police later found it in a no-parking zone on Fulton Avenue. Tickets were issued on October 28, 29 and 30. The car was impounded on October 30 for failure to move it.
    Police did not search it because there was no evidence