" "gravity fault," and "lag fault") and quotations from the Bible, such as Job 14:14, "If a man die, shall he live again?"On October 13,1972, while driving along a usually deserted stretch of highway in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Herb spotted an old man staggering along the roadside. Herb stopped the car, lifted the hood, and asked the fellow to take a look at the engine-something seemed to be wrong. The man, Lawrence White, was obliging. Herb clubbed him over the head several times with a baseball bat and pulled the body off the side of the road. It was found in a few days and finally identified. Nobody got very excited about White's death; in fact, no one ever came to claim the body.Eleven days later, Herb picked up a Cabrillo College coed, Mary Guilfoyle, who was hitchhiking. He stabbed her once in the chest and then in the back. She apparently died instantly. He drove up into the mountains and removed the body from the front seat of his '58 Chevy station wagon. There was no outcry about the disappearance of Mary Guilfoyle. Her body was not found for almost four months, and by then all that remained was the skeleton. The cause of death could not even be determined on the basis of the remaining evidence.The first of Herb's killings that attracted attention in the press was the stabbing of a Catholic priest, Father Henri Tomei, in the confessional of St. Mary's Church in Los Gatos, about 15 miles from Santa Cruz. The killing occurred on All Souls Day, November 2, 1972, and appeared motiveless, although speculation went on for a week or so in the press about a "satanic or ritualistic cult killing."For Herb, there was no relief in sight. Not only had voices told him to kill again, he was now receiving telepathic messages from victims who were "asking" to be killed or at least assuring him that it was all right; they "understood" the need for it. At his trial, Herb attempted to explain this phenomenon to the jury, saying: I, Herb Mullin...
