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Stephen Richards (murderer)
Stephen D. Richards (died 1879) was an American serial killer.
==Background==
Richards was born in Wheeling, West Virginia and raised as a Quaker. His birthdate was March 18, but his birth year is uncertain. The ''Omaha Herald'' reported that Richards said he was born in 1836,〔 but the ''New York Times'' reported that he was 24 years old when apprehended in December 1878, indicating that he was born around 1854. Richards' statements that he was a child during the Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, and that he was between 16 and 18 in September 1871, when his mother died, corroborate an 1850s birthdate.〔
As a young child, Richards moved with his family to Ohio, where he grew up in Jefferson County. Around 1875, he moved west to Iowa and worked for one year at the Iowa Lunatic Asylum in Mount Pleasant, where his job was to bury dead patients.〔 The ''New York Times'' reported that Richards "had his finer senses blunted" during his time at the asylum;〔 the ''Omaha Herald'' reported that he said of this job, "That took away to some extent my feeling and sympathy for mankind. I could stand by a man and see him die with no more feeling than I would have for a hog. When I left there... I didn't care for anything and had no respect for human nature."〔
After leaving his job at the asylum, Richards drifted through Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming, where he found intermittent work and occasionally consorted with groups of train robbers.〔
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