00:00Herbert Mullen killed 13 people to save California from an earthquake?
00:04That was not a figure of speech.
00:06That was his actual belief.
00:07In 1972, Mullen began hearing voices.
00:11They told him that human sacrifice created a kind of pressure release inside the earth.
00:15That without it, a massive earthquake would swallow the entire state.
00:20Millions would die.
00:21So he started killing strangers.
00:23A hitchhiker.
00:24A priest.
00:25A family camping in the woods.
00:27Each death, in his mind, was an act of mercy toward everyone else.
00:32Here is where it gets deeply unsettling.
00:35During his killing spree, California went through one of its quietest seismic periods in years.
00:40Almost no significant earthquakes.
00:42At trial, Mullen pointed this out calmly.
00:45As evidence.
00:46As proof his system worked.
00:48He was convicted of 10 counts of murder in 1973 and sentenced to life in prison.
00:54But the question that lingers is not whether he was evil.
00:56It is whether a man with a world that complete ever truly understood what he had done.
01:02He still believes he saved you.
01:03He still believes he has given the sound of chemin in 2015.
01:03He is his brazen.
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