an opponent during a match off the pitch and into an adjacent creek. Years later, when Sayoc visited his old coach at another college, he brought along a co-ed band of strippers, two of whom made out at stops along the campus tour.

Sayoc’s family repeatedly insisted that he seek mental health treatment. He repeatedly refused.

Bowers’ parents divorced shortly after his first birthday; then he lived with his mother. When he was 6, his father was arrested for attempted rape. Six months later the father shot himself to death at a campground 100 miles north of Pittsburgh.

In 2004, police were called to Bowers’ own address on a report of a suicide attempt.

Bush, according to his son, was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder — schizophrenia with a mood disorder, such asbi-polar. But he disliked the side effects of his medications. "I'm lucky I made it this far,’’ he once wrote on Facebook, “with all the trouble I've caused myself when I get off my medicine.’’ He told his son the meds made it hard to sleep.

In 2000, after he and his wife separated, he was found in a bathtub with his wrists slit. Around the same time, he shot his cellphone because it wasn’t working.

Beierle struck almost everyone he ever met as odd, creepy or threatening. In grad school he walked with a exaggerated gait and often made inappropriate comments to women. A roommate recalls Beierle never had visitors himself, but sat around the living room in his briefs drinking beer when others did. He’d scream in his