by Franci Richardson Tuesday, January 18, 2000
The Boston Herald
Killer Hadden Clark, now leading investigators in a grim search on Cape Cod for more of his victims, is doing so out of self-interest, said his older brother. ``I think for him to be thinking much beyond what's in the best interest of Hadden probably doesn't occur to him. He's got this incredible guilt and he's got to do something with it,'' Geoffrey Clark said.
Geoffrey Clark also said recently that a massive head injury from a beating Hadden Clark endured in the Navy 15 years ago is what caused his ``danger potential to become unleashed.''
``Something in this beating changed him. Probably it was a combination of the actual beating of his head and some emotional stuff that happened afterwards,'' Geoffrey Clark said from his Silver Spring, Md., home. ``Instead of just being carelessly dangerous, he was then somehow able to justify his acts of violence.''
At 47, Hadden Clark is a twice-convicted murderer who has brought four detectives to Wellfleet in search of more victims he may have buried. One Maryland patrolman likened his glare to the chilling stare of fictional cannibal killer Hannibal Lechter, the protagonist in the movie, ``Silence of the Lambs.''
``He has a glare he looks at you with that just sends a chill down your spine,'' Derek Beliles, an officer at the Montgomery County Police Department in Rockville, Md., said last week.
In October, Hadden Clark was found guilty of murder in the 13-year-old case of 6-year-old Michele Dorr. He was already serving 30 years for the murder of a 23-year-old Harvard student who disappeared from her mother's Bethesda, Md., home in 1992.
Originally from New Jersey, the Clark family - replete with a troubled history - moved to various parts of the country.
His older brother, Bradfield Clark, strangled a co-worker he had invited to his San Francisco apartment for dinner, dismembered her body with a kitchen knife and stored the pieces in garbage bags in his car.
Hadden Clark went into the Navy in the 1980s. He had always been a little destructive, said Geoffrey Clark, who today sports many scars from injuries his brother inflicted on him.
When the two were young, they were riding bikes and Hadden Clark crashed his into Geoffrey's, leaving the brother unconscious and bleeding. Hadden Clark went home to assure his mother, ``Don't worry, the bike's OK,'' Geoffrey Clark remembered.
When he was discharged from the Navy, after being diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, Geoffrey Clark became nervous.
``When he came back from the Navy, he was so different I had him move out because I was afraid of him,'' Geoffrey Clark said.
A short time after Hadden Clark was questioned in connection with the Dorr murder, Hadden Clark Sr. killed himself at his daughter's Rhode Island home. When Hadden Clark stood trial in the Dorr murder, he would often rock back and forth in his chair. During interviews with detectives before the trial, Clark reportedly broke into song, praising Jesus Christ.
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