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in 1981 a search at Billy mansvi Jr's sprawling rural property in Florida turned up the bodies of four young women
he would drive and look for girls hitchhiking and abduct them or he'd hang out at malls a serial killer by his
early 20s Mansfield Junior's abuse of women had be gun in his teens Mansfield Jr is someone that was raised in the
world of violence and wre havoc in violence on anyone he came into contact with his sexual crimes escalated over
time both in terms of how violent they were to eventually resulting in murders convicted of killing five victims no
young woman who crossed paths with Billy Mansfield Jr was safe these women as evil he doesn't value life at all
Mansfield could be approachable Charming but that was the mask over this much more malevolent depraved human being
Billy Mansfield Jr's short but deadly spree was brought to an end in 1980 when he was exposed as one of the world's
most evil killers [Music] in 1980 when a woman was found dead the morning after leaving a bar in
Watsonville California with 24-year-old Drifter Billy Mansfield Jr detectives were shocked at how little the killer
had done to cover his tracks that kind of um hootspa if you will speaks to his feeling that he he was more clever than
anyone else and that he could do whatever he wanted to do he acted with complete impunity he just he did not
care sometimes he even boasted about his crimes and kind of derived joy out of being able to recollect his crimes and
what he did almost like these were accomplishments that he should be rewarded for I don't believe he ever
showed remorse and I don't think he even feels remorse I don't think he's capable
of it this killer Story begins in a shack on the edge of Grand Rapids Michigan in
1956 a troubled childhood he was bullied and was a bully Billy's parents were William Mansfield's senior and Virginia
Mansfield he was their first child they would have four more after him three boys and a
girl you could say it was a completely dysfunctional family on the edge of the law at all times times the
boys were encouraged to fight amongst each other by their father he was reared in a world of violence at one point the
father was seen uh chasing uh some of the kids down the street with a [Music] gun so this is the first instance that
Billy is learning about the rules of life and all of this is coming from his father who was this is a way that Billy
is learning even from a young age that this is how you solve problems when people don't agree with with you and the
family was actually very well known to the police because there were a number of different charges both violent and
nonviolent between the men and the boys of the family bringing did not prepare Billy Mansfield Jr for a successful
school life Mansfield Jr attended School in Grand Rapids and was often described
as a social misfit and often got into trouble in school by the age of 14 Mansfield Jr was already charged with
Larsson which is stealing in effect fact is it's an additional allegation against
Manfield Jr was that he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl on her way home from
school his father William Mansfield Senior had been tried for a similar offense some 20 years earlier while
still in his teens he was acquitted but it was the first of many such trials for
the family patriarch serve time for rape in both Michigan and in Nevada and an armed
robbery up in Michigan his father had been charged with multiple nonviolent and violent
crimes including sexual molestation of multiple individuals who were underage so perhaps even from that just watching
his father recognizing that this is something that people do perhaps or maybe even his father explained those
incidences away as things that were okay to do so this is the first instance that
Billy is learning about the rules of life already on a dark path by the age of 14
Mansfield Jr known to his family as Billy decided that formal education wasn't for
him he dropped out of school when he was 14 he altered his birth certificate which back in those days was much easier
to do than it is now and uh wound up joining the Army during his time in the Army
Mansfield Jr was assigned to places such as Germany um but after about 14 months of service
uh they determined that he really was not of age and that he had lied about his age to enlist and he was
discharged Mansfield maintained that that army career is where he became an alcoholic and first experimented with
drugs which made him volatile extremely volatile despite his troubles at the age
of 17 Mansville settled down with his child childhood sweetheart Phyllis the couple had first met at school in their
early teens by the time they married in 1973 they already had a child together and 5 months later a second baby
followed the marriage became very turbulent very quickly whenever his wife threatened to
leave or when they would have a fight he would threaten aggression on her and threaten that he would kill her and at
one point when she was holding their baby he put a gun to her head Phyllis would later tell
investigators about her husband's sexual proclivities she talked about how Billy
was isexual they would pick up men in gay bars bring them home make her watch him have sexual encounters with
them in 1974 when Billy Mansfield Jor was 18 um he was brought to trial for sex offenses in fact um forcing two women uh
to perform sex acts on him and at the same time and it goes to trial and the jury find it impossible to believe that
one man Co coer two women to act in ways they didn't want to act it was around this time that the family took the
opportunity to leave their legal difficulties in Michigan behind them after a fire at the Mansfield
property in Michigan the Mansfield Clan purchased a 5 acre plot in Spring Hill Florida it was surrounded by dense Grove
it was rural it was rustic and it had several trailers uh on the property in different
places property was overgrown it had junk cars refrigerator parts all kinds of things on it local Hernando County
prosecut Ed Jimmy Brown quickly became well acquainted with the family during the course of my time knowing the
manfields I prosecuted the dad and Billy and his brother Gary and his brother Robbie and his brother Terry Billy's
family and another local family here we referred to them as the Hernando County version of the Hatfields and The McCoys
they had an animosity toward each other they feuded they got into fights they beat each other up they stole things
from each other I think it would be fair to describe the household the family as utterly
Lawless there's no doubt that that Lawless atmosphere that they were living in would have shaped their relationship
with the legal system on the outside of that house far from starting aresh in Florida
the Mansville family continued their criminal Pursuits in fact Billy mansvi Jr was
about to escalate with catastrophic consequences for any young woman who crossed his
path by 1975 the entire mansvi Clan had settled on the sprawling plot of land including
Billy Mansfield Jr and his wife and children that winter at a camp site 13 mil away in Brooksville teenager Elaine
Zigler went missing Elaine Zigler was a 15-year-old girl on holiday with her mother and
stepfather they came from Ohio her family had been down here in 1975 for Christmas staying at the KOA
Campground Elaine had been looking forward to seeing in the new year but around 10:30 that evening she was seen
talking to a dark-haired man in his 20s with a beard and piercing eyes she was seen getting into a blue
light blue Ford Fair Lane with him with floored plates and that was the last that she was
seen on New Year's Day 1976 her parents made a frantic phone call to the police telling them that
Elaine is missing the police respond by reaching out to the community and giving descriptions
there's a reward of $500 placed for information leading to her recovery I remember her going missing we
did an extensive search and we were concerned from the beginning that she had met with um Foul
Play Jimmy Brown was at this time the deputy State Attorney serving atando County the only thing that we had was a
statement he had very striking eyes and they were described as mesmerizing uh so he very striking
appearance police officers canvasing members of the public for information had come across a young man who matched
the description in the vicinity of the campground showed him a picture and he said oh yeah I talked to that girl she's
from Ohio and I saw her New Year's Eve and she was said she was leaving and heading back home to Ohio because she
had um people she needed to see and things she needed to do her parents swore she would not have
left she was um happy she wasn't having problems she wasn't um the type of person who would run
away they stuck around for I think it was like six weeks before they finally went
home they stuck around for a long time elain Ziegler's disappearance remained unsolved
[Music] in early 1976 Billy Mansfield Jr moved with his family back to Michigan where he spent
the next four years in and out of prison in 1976 Mansfield Jr is arrested for being drunk and disorderly and he's
put in jail upon being released from the drunk and disorderly arrest in October of 1976 he's immediately rearrested for
the rape of a 16-year-old Michigan girl he plead guilty to a lesser charge and he went back to jail in 1978 Mansfield
Jr is accused of sexual assault and the attempted rape of two other women was sentenced to one year because
he flipped on his cellmate who had committed murder and at this point his wife uses
the opportunity to file for divorce while he's away from her so so she can start the proceeding
he got out in 1980 and came back down to Florida he and his dad and his brother Gary were
working doing refrigeration repair work and installation work heating and air conditioning
things now a single man in March 1980 24-year-old Billy Mansfield Jr was back in the bosom of his dysfunctional
family just a month later a 20 1-year-old Tampa woman went missing Sandy Graham was out uh drinking and uh
playing pool at a local establishment that she frequented she was known to be this very
outgoing recently divorced young adult who really was comfortable speaking to different
people she started playing pool with a guy who was not a regular at the bar she took a break and started talking to
another guy at the bar at which time the guy she was playing pool with who people
didn't seem to know at the bar got very upset observers describe the Man's eyes as being very scary looking and
piercing The Stranger threw her car keys in the trash but s nevertheless was seen leaving the
bar with this stranger well her friends who'd been there with her absolutely expected to return because everything
was there her glasses were there everything so what happened well the answer was no one knew she literally
disappeared Into Thin Air a month later a 16-year-old girl called Theresa fillingham moved to Tamper she had gone
off the rail and her teens had some difficult and complicated family relationships but appeared to be
starting over trying to start fresh and and clean slate in May 1980 Theresa left
her foster home in Washington state to move in with her older sister Margaret somehow she convinced me
to take her to Florida with me and so I brought her back with me and we rented a
place uh it was going to be a temporary place for a while and she was going to get her GED and get a job Teresa had
only been in Tampa for a few days when she vanished she told me that evening that she had a job interview at
University Mall in Tampa this girlfriend of hers was going to go after a job too and they were
going to go together I said okay so I went to work that night I got home probably
about 10:00 and she still wasn't home and she had never showed for the job interview
she didn't show [Music] up and when Margaret told the law enforcement about it because she had a
history of running away they thought maybe she was just running away again in the course of things over the next few
months uh she still didn't turn up all of her belongings were left behind intact her suitcase her clothing any
jewelry that she had she never came back for it the Tampa Police Department had me
come out and identify some Jane Doe's so I had to go down and none of them were her and then the case just got colder
and colder and colder and colder and she never came back [Music] back in June 1980 40 Mi north of tamper
in Hernando County William Mansfield Senior fell foul of the law once again and this time on even more serious
charges my Mansfield Jr's father was charged with over 40 counts of sexual abuse of children we sent him away for
56 years for sexually molesting children from age three to age 15 multiple times
Billy's father was a serious and prolific sexual offender of the worst kind he was a very manipulative
individual as well and he would manipulate women as some sex offenders do to facilitate access to children and
this is a lawless man with not a moral molecule in his body 5 days after William Mansville
senior's arrest a young woman was attacked in Brooksville not far from the camping ground where Elaine Zigler had
gone missing 5 years before 18-year-old Pamela Cheryl was walking home along a road in Brooksville Florida when a man
pulled up next to her in a car dragged her into the car drove her to a nearby mobile home tried to force sex on her
and when she refused he dragged her around the trailer by her hair and she fought back in the most
remarkable way she attacked him with a knife from the from the kitchen and as she left the mobile home she threw the
knife at him she ran immediately to the uh Sheriff's Department called and reported what had happened and gave an
absolutely perfect description local Law Enforcement Officers immediately recognized Pam's description of a man
they'd had plenty of dealings with before and a warrant was issued for Billy Mansfield Jr's arrest he found out
that the warrant was in existence and he and his brother Gary took off in a van headed north went up toward Ohio through
Illinois down through Texas and Nevada and wound up in Santa Cruz California appears that he was trying to
start a new life to try to evade the police was using a new Alias was trying to make himself look different and try
to leave no trace of his crimes behind the mansfi family member settled at a campground in the Watsonville
California area where mansfi Jr uh got a job as a maintenance man at a local mushroom farm um he took the Persona of
a man named Tom um the local people there described him as creepy despite using an alias the local
sheriff's department got wind of Mansfield Jr and discovered the Hernando County arrest warrant on
him and yet again that that charm comes into play he's arrested formally charged with
the attack on Pamela but he gets bail in November 1980 Billy mansfi Jr was released and continued living at the
campground in Watsonville along with his younger brother Gary two weeks later another woman Renee
sailing had the grave Misfortune to cross paths with the mansfields on the 6th of December 1980 Renee showed up at
a bar in Watsonville California looking for her husband Billy and his brother Gary
happened to be there at the time it was observed that mansvi Jr came on very very strongly to another woman that was
at the bar and work finding no success with a woman he'd be harassing mansfi Jr turned his attentions to 29-year-old
mother of three Renee eventually Renee was seen walking towards the parking lot with Mansfield
Jr a short time later Mansfield Jr comes back in the bar and talks to one of his
associates asks him if he wants to meet the chick he gives him the keys to his car and tells him she's out in the car
at which point he tells him don't let let her go keep her locked up this acquaintance did go to the car
and look in but because he couldn't understand Renee and she was intoxicated he then left just hours later on the 7th
of December 1980 she was found dead Renee sailing was found faed down in a drainage ditch at the side of
Buenavista drive a road that ran from the bar in Watsonville to the campground where Mansfield had been
staying her pants had been pulled down to around her ankles her shirt was up over the top of her head when a member
of the public found her they noticed a black cord wrapped so tightly around her neck that it was embedded in her flesh
she had obviously been strangled there were many features of the crime scene that police would see
repeated again and again not least the cause of death Mansfield Jr's preferred method of killing was Str ulation and
this involves the person being very up close to you your victim basically having their last breath being choked
out of them by your bare hands and individuals who kill in this way there's a sense of wanting to overpower their
victims and maybe deriving some sense of pleasure from that and feeling more powerful than ever that you're taking a
human life a number of witnesses identified Billy Mansfield Jr as being the man Renee sailing had left the bar with but
when police arrived to arrest the 24-year-old Mansfield was long gone Mansfield junor and his brother Gary
they fled the campsite that they were at and they eventually found their way to Las Vegas to try to evade
charges I think it was 4 days later he got caught in a place called wamaka Nevada wamaka is not a very large place
and Billy and Gary were distinctive uh Billy had a beard Gary had a beard had had long hair billies was parted in the
middle and uh the police in wamaka got lucky and saw them Billy was charged with murder in
the first degree and Gary was charged with being accessory to the murder it appears that he did nothing really to
hide his crimes or or protect himself from from being caught I'm not sure that he was taught that you tried to get away
with your crimes you just do them extradited back to California the brothers were sent to jail in Santa Cruz
to await trial for the murder of Renee sailing then Mansfield Jr's former wife philis told Hernando County Law
Enforcement an extraordinary Story one that had nothing to do with Renee once Billy was safely Behind Bars
Phyllis came forward and Conta contacted us down here with information that she thought
could be relevant so in early 1976 while they were back in Michigan for a short time Mansfield Jr told his wife that he
had killed a woman now the wife actually didn't believe this she took it as a threat to
her um that he could be a killer if she ever left him we then got some corroborating
information found out that Billy frequented the KOA Campground here he partied quite a bit and he liked a
younger women the Campsite in Brooksville Florida was the very place that 15-year-old elain zegler had vanished
from on New Year's Eve 1975 there was hope at last that the mystery of the teenager's disappearance
might be solved in March 1981 investigators finally had the go-ahead to act on the information man field J's
ex-wife had given them March 16th of 1981 got the search warrant somewhat different from an ordinary search
warrant because of the nature of the property with the abandoned cars the refrigerator parts and the air
conditioning parts and all the junk that was there and just general trash it was
a lot of the ground was covered and there was a lot of vegetation on it too so we commandeered unit from the city of
Brooksville public works department there a County Public Works Department we had bulldozers we had
backos Excavating the 5 AC site looks said to be a daunting task but within 24 hours the first
Grizzly Discovery was made on March 17th found the first bones once I found the bones then we had
a team a forensic archaeology team from the University of South Florida that came up and helped with the
excavation she had multiple blunt force trauma to the head there was also wire electrical wire which was found in the
vicinity of her neck and also her hands she was found in a fetal position and the cause of death was strangulation and
the immediate cause of death the blunt force multiple blunt force trauma the discovery of a female body was not a
surprise to the search team but the forensic archaeologists soon realized this was not 15-year-old Elaine
Zigler ultimately they recovered the skeleton full skeleton of a 22-year-old estimate 22y old white
female detectives got to work in identifying the remains of the body uncovered at Billy Mansfield Jr's
Florida home while the 24-year-old remained in custody 2,800 mil away in California for the murder of Renee
sailing we an official reconstruction expert take the skull ultimately and rebuild a face and then published the
face throughout the country while they waited to find out if a match would come back for their Jane Doe detectives tried
to find out where else their suspected serial killer may have struck the investigator in
Florida circulate a picture of Billy Mansfield Jr to other police forces and the police in
Tampa recognize the picture and suggest that he looks very like the man they're searching for in The Disappearance of
Sandy Graham mansvi Jr was officially named as the main suspect in Sand's disappearance but the body found at his
property on March the 17th was not hers and investigators were only beginning to
scratch the surface of Billy Mansfield Jr's career of murder 9 days into their search detectives made another Discovery
fairly close to the location of the first body and also shallow and she was white female age
15 this one is naked with a cord wrapped tightly around its neck in a fetal position she had multiple blunt force
trauma to the head and had electrical wire near her head and um her neck and her
hands she was ultimately identified by Dental charts and U by the jewelry that she was
wearing she was identified as Lane Zigler the 15-year-old ohy girl had been missing from the nearby Campground for
over 5 years her parents were told and they had waited 6 years to find out what had happened to their
daughter and I think the really sad thing is that when they found out what did happen to her it was that worst case
scenario it was the the the thing of their nightmares [Music] the third victim we found was shortly
after that it was April 3rd as I recall she was about 75 ft from the back door of the mfield
[Music] house the body looked to be that of a white female in her late teens she had multiple blunt force
trauma to the to the head and also had electrical heavy electrical wire around her neck and around her one of her
wrists did a facial reconstruction on her and published her paper newspaper and photograph
and no one came forward the bodies of three young women had now been found on Billy Mansfield
Jr's property all had suffered violent deaths while Mansfield Jr remained in jail thousands of miles away in
California the search continued and on April the 7th 1981 a fourth and final set of remains was recovered from the
Mansfield's Florida property she likewise was found strangled with wire and with a cord she
had her pants pulled down to around the ankle area and her shirt pulled up overhead the woman had dark hair and was
still wearing jewelry similar to that of missing 21-year-old Sandy Graham the detective from tamper goes to look
at the remains and notices for example that Sandy Graham was wearing a very distinctive serpent
bracelet but he also notices that the remains the teeth are perfect and Sandy Graham's teeth were
perfect she had last been seen at a bar down in Tampa with someone matching Billy's description
just like Renee sailing was lasting alive leaving a bar in Santa Cruz with someone matching Billy's
description the search of the property concluded on April the 17th 1981 and investigators were able to tell two
families what had happened to their loved ones I've always felt that the worst thing in the world is not knowing it is
at the same time a horrific experience because you're telling someone that someone that was their family someone
they loved and had spent their lives with has been murdered but it does give a chance for
closure two of the bodies found at the Mansville family property remained unidentified in July 1981 25-year-old
Billy Mansfield Jr stood trial in Santa Cruz California for the murder of Renee sailing but that trial ended with jurors
not being able to determine whether he was guilty or not um because there was not enough
evidence but later that year Mansfield Jr's brother who is also facing charges in the murder as an accessory after the
fact agreed to testify against his brother in the murder so we cut a two-state deal with Gary that he would
cooperate both in California and in Florida against his brother in exchange for immunity from prosecution in Florida
and in exchange for charges being dismissed in Santa Cruz this is a family that would bond
together when it was convenient but when it came time for self-preservation they
also did not have any uh reluctance in abandoning one another just so that they could save themselves in February 19
1982 Billy Mansfield Jr was back in front of judge and jury this time in Marin County
California the retrial takes place and this time it only takes 2 weeks mansvi Jr was sentenced to 25
years to life for the murder of Renee sing in May 1982 Jimmy Brown brought Mansfield Jr back to Florida to face
charges there the 6-hour flight was the first time the prosecutor had properly chatted to the convicted
killer he came across as friendly he was able to strike up conversations with people it just struck me that he'd
already been sentenced to to life in prison for murder on Renee sailing he was indicted for four murders here in
Hernando County and it was like none of it was real none of it bothered him at all through the summer of 198 2
prosecutors in Hernando County prepared to put Billy Mansfield Jr on trial for the murders of elain zagler Sandy Graham
and the two unidentified women whose remains had been found on his property the killer faced the stiffest of
penalties if found guilty Florida's statute for first three murder provided for two penalties either
death by electrocution or life in prison but El for parole after serving 25 years
of the sentence my feeling was at that point in time with everything we knew about Billy that he should never be in a
position where he could be released ever andun Billy was still quite young at the
time 26 I [Music] think Billy getting out of prison and being able to go back and hurt other
people was just something I could not bear the thought of in August 1982 on the eve of trial
Mansfield Jr in order to avoid the death penalty in Florida decided to plead guilty to the murder of the four victims
found on the Mansfield property Mansfield also pleaded guilty to snatching and attacking pamet Cheryl the
teen he'd taken to his mobile home near Brooksville in 1980 based on his plea Mansfield Jr was sentenced to four life
sentences plus 5 years for the kidnap and attempted rape of Pamela Cheryl Mansfield Jr was then returned to
California to serve out his remaining sentence in the murder of [Music] ree Billy mansvi Jr remains incarcerated
at the California Health Care Facility in Stockton he became eligible for parole there in 19 97 but has not yet
met the conditions that would allow him to be released and is perhaps unlikely ever to do
so this is somebody who you can't say is likely to be rehabilitated because it doesn't really seem like he even cares
that he took the lives of these people he was cold and Relentless and could have at any minute
committed another murder It is believed that Mansville Killing Spree did not begin or end with the five
women whose murders he'd been convicted of after his sentencing in 1982 mansfi Jr approached prosecutors with a deal he
didn't like the idea that his father was in prison for 56 years and he offered that if we would let his dad out of
prison and if we would give him immunity in each of the States involved that uh he would provide details so the families
of about 80 victims would have closure which of course we couldn't do so we still don't know we do know that
they stopped in KOA Campgrounds all the way from here to Santa Cruz and koe campgrounds were Billy's favorite
um hunting ground if you will for victims [Music] in 2020 38 years after Mansfield's
Florida convictions there was a major breakthrough in identifying one of the two unnamed bodies found buried on the
mansvi property advances of DNA technology meant that they could extract DNA from The Remains they discovered and
then they gave that DNA to a forensic genealogist who constructed a family tree the forensic genealogist found
someone on an online database whose DNA profile suggested they were related to the unnamed
teenager the expert then used this to start building the family tree of this individual which led to the realization
there was a young woman in the family whose birth was registered but no further records existed for
her the information was handed to a cold case detective in Hernando County Florida who called Margaret johns with a
question do you have a sister that I missing in 1980 and I I was speechless I couldn't I could hardly answer him I
said he said yeah I think that we have identified your sister who went missing in Tampa in
1980 Margaret gave a DNA sample and 6 weeks later the remains were positively identified as belonging to her younger
sister Theresa fillingham 16-year-old Theresa had disappeared in Tampa some 41 years earlier just after moving in with
Margaret I felt guilty I took her away from where she was safe and sound into Florida with me I failed to protect her
or take care of her or watch over her and so over the years I just blamed myself and nothing ever happened until
the day I got the phone call saying that they may have identified her so it took a year just to get
the once the positive identification happened just to get her remains back and um that was it that's the end of it
so now I have it knowing is something you can then process and deal with not knowing is an
emptiness a casm a black hole inside you of just worrying about all of the the different scenarios not knowing I think
for people is much worse than anything they might come to know [Music] the identification of Theresa fillingim
offers hope the remains of Billy Mansfield Junior's final unidentified victim May one day be returned to her
family my message to people who do have loved ones still missing maybe is don't give up anything's
possible as with so many serial killers the question of whether Billy man Phil Jr was born evil or was the product of
his violent dysfunctional upbringing may never be fully answered but few would disagree with investigators who
described him as a man without a soul a remorseless calculating killer who placed no value on the lives he took and
as Revelations about his crimes continue to this day Mansville will forever be remembered as one of the world's most
evil tellers [Music]

Billy Mansfield Jr. moved between Florida and Michigan, targeting vulnerable women and girls. Between 1975 and 1980, Mansfield Jr. murdered at least five victims, burying four of them at his family’s home in Spring Hill, Florida.

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Brief Summary

Billy Mansfield Jr's violent past led to multiple murders, with recent DNA advancements identifying one of his victims decades later.

Key points

The Rise of a Serial Killer. Billy Mansfield Jr. escalated from abuse to murder, leaving a trail of victims.
Mansfield's Criminal Legacy. Mansfield's family had a history of violence and crime, shaping his path.
The Disappearance of Elaine Zigler. 15-year-old Elaine Zigler vanished on New Year's Eve, last seen with a mysterious man.
The Attack on Pamela Cheryl. Pamela fought back against her attacker, leading to a police investigation.
Phyllis's Revelation. Mansfield's ex-wife revealed he confessed to killing a woman while they were married.
The Discovery of Elaine Zigler. After years of searching, the remains of 15-year-old Elaine Zigler are finally identified.

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Evil doesn't value life at all.

Describing Mansfield's lack of empathy.

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