Crazy Kentucky cat killer culled cats from craigslist

January 2, 2011

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Alex Phelps, animal cruelty, craigslist, kentucky, Louisville

Woman says man accused of torturing cats got the animals on Craigslist:

24-year old Alex Phelps was arrested in Louisville, Kentucky on charges that he abused, tortured and killed several cats. Witnesses have come forward and have said that they gave Phelps cats that they advertised on craigslist.

The reason I bring up this story because it’s a commonly held belief that people who torture and kill animals like this have the most potential to go on to become serial killers.

Now I’m not saying that correlation equals causation but this is the type of person that frequents craigslist. If he hadn’t been caught how long would it have been before he started using craigslist to find human victims? Horny guys on casual encounters would probably be the most vulnerable considering they believe everything they read on the internet.

UPDATE 11/8/2011: His charges have been transferred from Jefferson to Bullitt County.

UPDATE 1/2/2013: Last month Phelps pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 5 years. He’s currently out on bond. Sentencing is set to take place on the 11th.

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9 responses to “Crazy Kentucky cat killer culled cats from craigslist”

Jadecrowe

January 2, 2011 at 10:54 pm

hmmm….somebody needs to be put in a burlap sack and dropped off a bridge. just sayin’.

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RobTaylor

January 3, 2011 at 12:48 am

24? Really?

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1. Trench Reynolds
  
  January 3, 2011 at 3:35 am
  
  I thought he looked a little Dahmer-esque.
  
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  1. RobTaylor
    
    January 3, 2011 at 4:10 am
    
    Yeah, I can see that. And a very hard 24, but I guess being that evil takes it’s toll.
    
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Hollandalex

January 7, 2011 at 5:25 pm

This guy needs to be nuetered more then the cats need it! Makes me long for the days when they would brand people with an A for adulters and such. This guy should be branded with cat whiskers.

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Lilly lozano

November 7, 2011 at 7:41 pm

so f***** stupid why in the h***would u do that u r so crazy we should kill u wouldn u like that no so u dont have to put something on these cats that u didnt have lilly(:$$ out

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Princess_1411

June 8, 2012 at 4:32 pm

Wow my friends and I who knew him didn’t see this coming. He was always nice to me, I think their is more to this case. I’m a psych major and I’ll admit the author is correct. However it isn’t typical for this behavior to all of a sudden manifest in a person. It develops over time from childhood.
My cousin went to Overdale with him and she too is in disbelief.
Their is something afoot here. People don’t typically go crazy or sadist overnight. I’d like to talk to him but his home# is disco’ed.

This isn’t the guy you would come to expect being involved in this type of crime. The police said he confessed but he’s going to trial?

Why would he go all the way to trial if he was guilty? Most of the people who knew him that I’ve talked to on Facebook said he wasn’t stupid. We’ll all be watching how this trial goes.

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1. Trench Reynolds
  
  June 10, 2012 at 8:06 pm
  
  That’s the thing about sociopaths. They’re very good at hiding things like that.
  
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2. jadecrowe
  
  January 2, 2013 at 9:43 pm
  
  yeah, lots of people have made statements about what a nice polite young man Ted Bundy was too…
  and you’re right, this sort of thing doesn’t happen overnight. so obviously he was very good at hiding it and it’s good that he got caught before he killed another animal or moved on to humans. i’ll be interested to see what he gets sentenced to. probably next to nothing, knowing the courts these days.
  
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