

He then kills Claire later and dumps her body outside an old cement plant, realizing the authorities would have his usual dump sites in the 3rd Ward under heavy guard.Īfter David brings home a school nurse named Lisa Phillips, Joe is in the midst of tying her up in his workshop when he hears Prentiss approaching, the agent having been let into the house by David. Eventually slapping his son, Joe angrily tells him he is doing all this for him and takes him home. While picking David up from school the next day, Joe gets into an argument with his son, who wants Claire to stay with them. Taking Claire home, Joe has Claire, like the others before her, treat David like her own son, all the while verbally abusing and terrorizing her. The boy lures her to a secluded part of the mall, where Joe abducts her under the threat of killing David with a box cutter. Joe would have the captives act as surrogate mothers to David before killing them by cutting their hearts out.Ībout three weeks later, having already killed five women, Joe has David bring him another victim, a woman named Claire Thompson, who is shopping at the local mall. Being abandoned caused Joe to develop a deep hatred of women and, six months after his wife left, he began abducting women using David as bait. In January 2007, he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, news which caused his wife to leave him and their young son David.

A resident of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, Joe specialized in building custom furniture.
