commentary by Patrick H. Moore
Stories, stories, stories. And now cometh one of the more eerie alleged triple murderers we’ve come across. Caius Veiovis, a 33-year-old Springfield, Massachusetts man, is accused of helping two Hells Angels, David Chalue and Adam Hall, murder and dismember David Glasser, Edward Frampton and Robert Chadwell in 2011. According to the prosecution’s theory of the case, Frampton and Chadwell were scheduled to testify against Hall, who was a ranking member of the Berkshire County chapter of the Hell’s Angels, which meant they had to be silenced.
Veiovis’ trial is now in its early stages. Chalue and Hall have already been convicted of the triple murders and are serving life sentences. I’m largely unfamiliar with the details of the case and will mostly focus on Veiovis in this short post.
According to a story written a few weeks ago by Sebastian Murdock of the Huffington Post, Veiovis’s lawyer, James G. Reardon, is worried his client’s appearance might make prospective jurors prejudiced. You see Veiovis is one the stranger looking fellows we’ve come across during our agonizing trek through the minefield of violent crime.
Mr. Murdock writes:
Veiovis considers himself a worshipper of Satan, and told police he was a vampire who drinks the blood of others along with his own, Mass Live reported.
Along with a large septum piercing and the number 666 tattooed on his forehead, Veiovis also has body modifications in his head that resemble protruding horns.
As is well-known, the number 666 refers to the Beast of Revelations, who is some kind of anti-Christ diabolical figure who opposes God and Truth. See http://www.ucg.org/bible-faq/what-does-666-number-beast-mean for a standard analysis of what the Beast is all about. In addition, Aleister Crowley, the British occultist and sex magician, known as The Wickedest Man in the World, is associated with the number 666.
Veiovis’s attorney, James Reardon, however, stated in his interview:
“I don’t know what 666 means.”
I suspect Reardon is playing dumb in an attempt to distance his client from Satanism. A great many people have at least some sense of what the Beast and 666 refer to.
Veoivis was not always named Veiovis, and it’s not hard to understand why he chose a “flashy handle”, given his penchant for the macabre, and the fact he apparently does not want to be seen as normal. Before changing his name to Veiovis, he was known as Roy C. Gutfinski Jr.
The fact that he was simply Mr. Gutfinski, Jr. did not stop Veiovis from being a vampire. His desire to drink his own blood and the blood of others appears to be very real. In 1999, he and his girlfriend were sentenced to 10 years in jail for bringing a 16-year-old girl to a hotel room, slashing a 7-inch gash in her back, and drinking her blood.
Veiovis was also charged with a much more prosaic crime in 2006, which led to a parole violation and him being sent back to prison. He allegedly kidnapped two strippers from a nightclub and held them against their will in a hotel room. Those charges were later dropped for unknown reasons.
I realize I’m a little weird myself in that I find this fellow to be quite fascinating. Not only is he apparently a real live vampire, but anyone who implants horns in his forehead gets an 11 on my weirdness scale. I could do without his involvement in murdering state witnesses, however, and suspect that the charges against him are likely to stick.
I am a bit disillusioned by one thing, though. Veiovis’s alleged motive for taking part in the triple murder was to prove himself to Hall and the other Hell’s Angels so that he would be accepted into the motorcycle club. This rather mundane desire is not what I would suspect from a blood-drinking, horn-implanting, real live vampire. Not only that, but if he’s convicted and goes to state prison, the only blood he’s going to have access to, beside his own, is CONVICT BLOOD which, from everything I’ve heard, has a rather rank flavor and smell that even vampires turn up their noses at it and often refuse to even sample, much less quaff with gusto.