Charles Albright explaining the 1984 Stephen King novel “Thinner”. Albright developed a deep obsession with eyes during his childhood, specifically women’s eyes. The Eyeball Killer would grow up a career criminal that murdered three women by shooting them and then precisely removing their eyeballs which were never recovered.
The removal was done to such a degree of accuracy that forensic pathologist Dr Elizabeth Peacock who performed the autopsy believed it to be the work of a surgeon. She stated “I would have to say there would be some skill involved. There was no disruption of the eyelids overlying the eye sockets.” Albright would have used a knife and slid the blade beneath the eyeball itself and cut the major muscles connecting it to the socket. A very difficult task to do without damaging the socket or eyelids in any way.
