Edmund Tolleson

Edmund Tolleson is Mildred's foster brother and a convicted mass murderer. Known publicly as the "Clergy Killer," Edmund was convicted for the murder of four priests, one of whom was his father, who was indirectly responsible for the death of his mother. Edmund spent his adolescence in and out of foster care, where he met Mildred. Both were subject to abuse in every foster home they had been sent to. None worse than the last, however. Where they were forced to perform sexual acts on each other in front of a crowd.

Eventually, Edmund and Mildred plotted their escape, but not before Edmund could gouge out their eyes with a pair of scissors. This long-standing abuse corrupted and shaped Edmund into the mentally unstable individual he is.