David Elliot Penton was born on February 9th 1958. Throughout his life, he has committed atrocities that classified him as a "child serial killer". He kidnapped, molested, and then murdered 5-9 victims in four years. The victims were mostly young girls from the neighborhood, but he also murdered his own 2-month-old son. After having kidnapped and molested the poor children, he strangled them in order to end their lives. After many years of searching, the police finally caught him and he is now sentenced to life in prison in Texas.
During his interview shortly after being caught a police officer said:
"We didn't come here to talk about whether or not you did it; we know you did. We just wanted to meet you before we bring you back to Texas and kill you."
During his interview shortly after being caught a police officer said:
"We didn't come here to talk about whether or not you did it; we know you did. We just wanted to meet you before we bring you back to Texas and kill you."
People were terrified by this monster because he had a long process of picking and stalking a victim before kidnapping the child. The police made a lot of efforts to try and stop him but he was very difficult to locate. As the murders started to pile up, the investigators received more and more clues until they finally caught him. He is comparable to a boogeyman because he not only targets children, but he went missing for a long time. This gave the impression that children would suddenly disappear, only to return dead.