(1952 -) is an American murderer and suspected serial killer. His parents were both alcoholics and often fought with each other in front of their children. Growing up, his mother dressed him in girls' clothes when drunk and called him "Kristen.” As a teenager, Clark tortured and killed animals owned by children who bullied him. Clark trained as a chef and served in the United States Navy until he was discharged after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1985. Over the years, he held a number of menial jobs but was mostly homeless. Clark was arrested multiple times for theft and retaliation.

On May 31, 1986, Clark was ordered by his brother to move out of the latter's home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Michele Dorr, a six-year-old friend of his niece, came over looking for her. Clark took Michele to an upstairs room and slashed her throat with a chef knife. Clark then attempted to sexually assault her corpse, drank some of her blood, ate a piece of her flesh, and stuffed her in a duffel bag. He buried her in a park 12 miles away.

On October 18, 1992, he killed 23-year-old Laura Houghteling in Bethesda, Maryland. Clark was working as a gardener for Laura's mother Penny when she accused Clark of stealing tools from her backyard shed. Clark entered the house through the back door and stabbed Laura to death in her bedroom with a kitchen knife and suffocated her with a pillow. He carried her body in a bedsheet through a wooded area and buried her a half-mile away. He left behind a pillowcase with his fingerprint as he moved the body. He later returned and dressed up in a wig and women's clothes and left through the front door to make people think Laura left the house alive to buy time to clean the scene. Police soon discovered the bloody pillow and linked the print on it to Clark. Clark confessed and led police to Laura's body eight months after the murder.

He was eventually caught and is currently serving two 30-year sentences for the two murders at Eastern Correctional Institution, Westover, Maryland. In custody, Clark has confessed to murdering dozens of people starting as a teenager. Clark led police in 2000, to his grandparents' former property where they discovered a plastic bucket with more than 200 pieces of jewelry that he claimed were "trophies" he took from his victims.

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"Sign Language"
by Hadden Clark
8.5"x11"
colored pencil & ink
on paper
signed in ink
$30.00