Killer to Let Brain Be Studied After Death for Cause of Rages

Death Row inmate Carroll Edward Cole, convicted of killing five women, has agreed to let doctors examine his brain after his execution Friday to see whether there is a physical reason for his murderous rages.

Psychologist Jan Bruener said Monday Cole has approved an autopsy in which his brain will be removed and examined for lesions, holes, cuts or signs of disease.

Cole, 47, who confessed to 13 murders and told a psychiatrist he killed 35 people over the years, has said he won’t appeal his Dec. 6 execution by lethal injection because “I just messed up my life so bad that I just don’t care to go on.”

Cole said he killed women as revenge against his mother, who he said abused him as a child and forced him to conceal her sexual liaisons with other men from his father.

Cole said most of the murders followed heavy drinking bouts in bars where he picked up his victims and usually were committed after having sex with them.