Katurian

Katurian is the main suspect in a series of gruesome murders involving local children. He is a fiction writer of short stories. He believes that the main and only goal of a writer should be to tell a story, not send a message. He protests that none of his stories have messages or meanings or political slants.

Many of his stories feature children suffering from abuse at the hands of the adults they trust most. The police assume that this suggests Katurian is capable and guilty of the murders, but in reality this theme reoccurs in his work because Katurian grew up with abusive parents.

In order to turn him into a talented writer, his parents locked his older brother in a bedroom and tortured him nightly to give Katurian nightmares that made his stories dark and meaningful. When Katurian found out about the torture, he killed his...