- In Born Evil, condemned killer Hadden Clark extends up to director Michael Bay from jail in a sequence of recorded, pesky phone conversations
- Convicted assassin Jack Truitt, who Clark acknowledged was Jesus, points out how Clark admitted his wrongs to him — including one bombshell that directed officers to solve a long-held secret
- Bay considers some of Clark’s shares in the documentary “could potentially unlock the door to translating many hard case murders”
The handwritten note from Eastern Correctional Institution located in Westover, Md., moved unopened for two weeks.
“It was in the room, not where I belong,” manager Michael Bay tells PEOPLE. “It simply seated there. I didn’t enjoy that dim energy around me.”
As the head of big-budget, action-packed blockbusters that contain Armageddon, the foremost five Transformers films and the Bad Boys franchise, Bay states he likes to “research and develop feelings” by talking to individuals in the real globe, from alligator ranchers to NASA physicists and astronauts.
But he’s never uttered to a serial assassin, let the solitary one who confessed to eating the meat of Michelle Dorr, the 6-year-old he killed in 1986 in Silver Spring, Md., or fatally piercing 23-year-old Laura Hoeteling in 1992 in her Bethesda residence while wearing, he has argued, a wig and woman’s attire.
So Bay was anxious to see what condemned killer Hadden Clark had reported to him in April 2023, a month behind Bay had mailed a letter to the assassin in prison questioning if he’d be ready to talk to him.
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Clark was curious.
“Into the convoluted sense of a serial killer.”
Bay’s happening prison-house talks with the retired trained chef – and the explosive, admissions Clark allegedly drove to Jack Truitt, the long-haired, bearded cellmate he thought was Jesus – became the foundation of Bay’s latest scheme, Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior, on ID/Investigation Discovery and seeing on Max.
Beginning Monday, Sept. 2, at 9/8c, the five-part docuseries – Bay’s foremost documentary and his rather assignment with the true corruption network – goes in-depth into the gruesome murders that anchored Clark in jail for 60 years, not to say the myriad other individuals the analyzed paranoid schizophrenic, now 72, shares to have killed.
In more than 14 hours of personal. Documented discussions from prison, Bay, the series’ director-producer, spoke to a prisoner. “The FBI refers to as someone of interest’ in more than 20 conditions,” says Bay.
Born Evil, he speaks in an ID out, “could potentially unlock the door to translating many cold case killings.”
But first, he reveals what drives Clark to tick.
Growing up, Clark states, his parents – and other children – often named him derogatory terms. He says his drunken mother made him model dresses and named him “Kristen.”
“His upbringing was extremely sad,” says Bay.
