Every once in a while, the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon phenomenon rears it’s head. Today, I read about a former acquaintance and co-worker in the local news.

bill-s.The former aerospace worker who killed a Los Angeles airport officer by dragging him along the side of his carjacked patrol car believed he was Jesus Christ on a mission to save Russia, jurors heard Monday on the first day of his trial.

William Sadowski was blinded to his actions by the voice in his head telling him to save a Russian woman he loved from hell, Sadowski’s attorney told the Los Angeles Superior Court jury in Judge Lance Ito’s courtroom.

Deputy Public Defender Irene Nunez said her client’s only intent was to kill himself to get to hell.

Sadowski, a 51-year-old divorced father of two with a long history of mental illness, did not have the intent to commit murder, nor did he deliberate or premeditate Officer Tommy Scott’s death in April 2005, Nunez said.

But Deputy District Attorney Linda Loftfield noted that Sadowski clearly said in a tape-recorded interview with a Los Angeles police detective that he knew Scott was hanging on to the car, and he drove fast and swerved to shake him off.

Note the presiding Judge, Lance Ito, is the same one who screwed up the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

This is weird shit, alright, but it pales in comparison to seeing another creepy co-worker acquaintance to turn up in the news back in 1977 - the Trash Bag Murderer.