A reader asked a very interesting question and makes a compelling point:
With John Hastings and Paul Johnson there’s something uncanny about the pattern they share in going from clean-cut Bloomfield boys of privilege to psychiatrically unstable weirdos in no time. Like they both got under the influence of something that didn’t just turn them evil and violent like Busch and Green, but clinically insane.
Hastings was a graduate of Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield, Michigan. Johnson attended Brother Rice in 1970 and 1971, but transferred to Seaholm High School in Birmingham in 1972 (apparently did not graduate).
