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Born in 1940, Richard Biegenwald was the victim of harsh and innumerable beatings from his father, who was a known alcoholic. At the age of five, Biegenwald set fire to his family's home. He was sent away for observation at the Psychiatric Center in Rockland County, New York. By the age of eight, Biegenwald was drinking and gambling. By nine years of age, he had undergone a succession of electroshock therapy treatments at New York's Bellevue Hospital. His next institutional stop was at the State Training School for Boys at Warwick, New York, where he was accused of theft and inciting other inmates to escape. On his visits home to Staten Island, New York he stole money from his mother's purse, and at age eleven he set himself on fire. Biegenwald was released from the Psychiatric Center in time to graduate from eighth grade at the age of sixteen. Biegenwald dropped out of high school after only a few weeks, and left for Nashville, Tennessee, where he stole a car and was arrest...

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