Killer on the Road

[Kevin Mowery]

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> From: James Palmer <jrp36 at hermes.cam.ac.uk>
> To: UA list <UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu>
> Subject: Re: Killer on the Road
> Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 9:28 AM
> 
> Great write-up, but I was surprised there was no mention of the thuggee
> cult, who are surely the original Killers on the Road.  They were a
secret
> sect (hereditary) of Kali-worshippers who would infiltrate travelling
> parties in disguise, then murder them for no reason other than devotion
to
> Kali.  The British wiped them out (1840's?), hanging hundreds and
> reeducating hundreds of others in honest trades - hurray for us!

	You've answered your own question (although there wasn't really a
question).  The Thugee killed for a religious purpose.  The Killer on the
Road kills for no better reason than that it likes to kill people.


Kevin "Professor Bobo" Mowery _____________________ profbobo at io.com
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deep that I begin to question whether the author does, indeed, have a
body."
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> James 
>