Aaron Stampler is the villain of William Diehl's 1993 novel Primal Fear and its two sequels, Show of Evil (1995) and Reign in Hell (1997). He was portrayed by Edward Norton in the 1996 movie adaptation of Primal Fear in an Academy Award-nominated performance. A typical cartoon villain. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... A sequel is a work of fiction (e. ... 1995 (MCMXCV in Roman) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Edward Norton Edward James Norton, Jr. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Primal Fear is a 1996 motion picture which tells a story of a defense attorney (Richard Gere) who defends an altar boy (Edward Norton) charged with the murder of a Catholic archbishop. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...

Born and raised in the tiny (fictional) Appalachian mining town of Crikside, Kentucky, Stampler was subjected to systematic physical, emotional and sexual abuse from a young age, molding him into a sociopath. A brilliant student noted for his talents in acting and psychology, he resented the stupidity of the townspeople, adults and his peers alike; he saw them as nothing more than fodder for the mines that slowly killed them for the mining company's profit. He went down into the mine as a child with his father, and was so terrified by the cramped, dark space that he vowed to never go down there again. From then on, he would have a lifelong fear of being trapped in the dark. The Appalachian Mountains are a system of North American mountains running from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada to Alabama in the United States, although the northernmost mainland portion ends at the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine This article is about mineral extraction. ... Official language(s) English Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 37th 104,749 km² 225 km 610 km 1. ... Abuse is a general term for the misuse of a person or thing, causing harm to the person or thing, to the abuser, or to someone else. ... Antisocial personality disorder (APD) is a personality disorder which is often characterised by antisocial and impulsive behaviour. ... Acting is the work off an actor, a person in theatre, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play. ... Auguste Rodins The Thinker, bronze cast by Alexis Rudier, Laeken Cemetery, Brussels, Belgium. ... Profit is a positive return made on an investment by an individual or by business operations. ... Fear is an unpleasant feeling of perceived risk or danger, whether it be real or imagined. ...

He committed his first murder at the age of five, pushing the town preacher, whom he hated, over a cliff. He also murdered his brother and his girlfriend at the age of 10, and an attendant at the morgue he worked at as a teenager. An adept con artist with angelic good looks, he was never even suspected for any of these crimes. Preacher is a colloquial term for a clergyman, in particular a local priest, pastor or Minister; one who preaches. ... A morgue is a building or room (as in a hospital) used for the storage of human remains. ... A confidence trick, confidence game, or con for short, (also known as a scam) is an attempt to intentionally mislead a person or persons (known as the mark) usually with the goal of financial or other gain. ...

He lost his virginity at age 14 to Rebecca Nolan, one of his (much older) teachers, who in later years would become his criminal accomplice. A virgin is most commonly seen as a person who has not engaged in sexual intercourse. ... At law, an accomplice is a person who actively participates in the commission of a crime, even though they take no part in the actual criminal offence. ...

At 16, Stampler ran away to Chicago, where he was homeless until he was taken in by Richard Rushman, the city's Archbishop, who made him an alter boy. A pedophile, Rushman forced Stampler, his fellow alter boys, and his girlfriend, Linda, to perform in videotaped child pornography. This went on for three years until Stampler finally snapped and brutally murdered Rushman, dismembering him and carving a library reference number to a quotation from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter into his chest: "A man who wears one face to himself and one face to the multitude may become confused as to which one is the true." This was Stampler's statement that Rushman, who preached charity and kindness in public and molested children behind closed doors, was a hypocrite. Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... A homeless man pushes a cart down the street. ... In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop. ... Pedophilia (Am. ... Generally, child pornography (sometimes referred to as CP, child porn, KP, or kiddie porn) is an illegal form of pornography, featuring minors. ... The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC, also called the Dewey Decimal System) is a system of library classification developed by Melvil Dewey (1851–1931) in 1876, and since greatly modified and expanded in the course of the twenty-two major revisions which have occurred up until 2004. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne in the 1860s Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. ... Salem Custom House The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is a classic American prose romance written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his masterpiece. ... This article refers to the act of selfless giving, and organizations which facilitate selfless giving. ... Sexual abuse is a relative cultural term used to describe sexual relations and behavior between two or more parties which are considered criminally and/or morally offensive. ...

Arrested immediately after the murder covered in Rushman's blood, Stampler was dubbed "the Butcher Boy" in the media and became the most hated man in Chicago—attracting him to Martin Vail, a hotshot defense attorney who wanted to defend him for the publicity. Affecting a meek, frightened persona, complete with an endearing stutter, Stampler swore to Vail he didn't kill Rushman, claiming that he had been with the archbishop but had blacked out, awakening to find him dead. Feigning multiple personality disorder, Stampler invented a violent, coldblooded alter ego named "Roy" (who was closer to his true self than the shy, stuttering "Aaron") who claimed responsibility for Rushman's murder. He completely fooled Vail and court psychiatrist Molly Arrington, as well as a jury when he assumed the "Roy" persona in the middle of the trial, attacking prosecutor Jane Venable in the middle of her cross-examination. An attorney is someone who represents someone else in the transaction of business: For attorney-at-law, see lawyer, solicitor, barrister or civil law notary. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Stuttering is a speech disorder in which pronunciation of the (usually) first letter or syllable of a word is repeated involuntarily. ... Overview In psychiatry, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is the current name of the condition formerly listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) and Multiple Personality Syndrome. ... Alter Ego has multiple meanings: Alter Ego is a game for the Commodore 64 computer. ... Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that studies and treats mental and emotional disorders (see mental illness). ... In law, cross-examination is the interrogation of a witness called by ones opponent. ...

Stampler was found insane by the court and sentenced to a mental institution. Resenting Vail for not introducing Rushman's child porn tapes into evidence, which he felt would have gotten him an acquittal, he revealed to Vail that he had faked his disorder—"Suppose there never was an 'Aaron', counselor!"—which he knew would haunt Vail forever. INSANE is a proprietary INteractive Streaming ANimation Engine developped by LucasArts. ... A psychiatric hospital (also called a mental hospital or asylum) is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ... In criminal law, an acquittal is the legal result of a verdict of not guilty, or some similar end of the proceeding that terminates it with prejudice without a verdict of guilty being entered against the accused. ...

Stampler was released from the institution ten years later and persuaded Nolan to kill the other alter boys and Linda, to get revenge on people he thought betrayed him without casting suspicion on himself. Vail found him out, tracked him back to Virginia, and foiled his plan. Vail paid a price for it, however, when Stampler killed Arrington, who had also briefly been Vail's lover, and beat Venable (who was now in a relationship with Vail) so badly that she lost an eye. Nolan was killed in a shootout with police and Vail chased Stampler to the feared coal mine of his childhood, which he fell into to his (apparent) death. Revenge or vengeance consists of retaliation against a person or group in response to perceived wrongdoing. ... Official language(s) English Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 35th 110,862 km² 320 km 690 km 7. ...

He reappeared in rural Texas a few years later, however, disguised as a blind Baptist preacher, part of a scam to bilk people out of money and get access to their teenage daughters. He aligned himself with a survivalist militia, which attracted the attention of his archenemy Vail, who now worked for the U.S. Attorney's office. As the militia surrendered to federal agents in what turned into a Waco-like shootout, Stampler tried to escape in the clothes of an agent he'd killed, but finally met his end when he was shot and killed when Vail, who had accompanied the feds to see that his case didn't end in violence, recognized him. Official language(s) None. ... Blindness can be defined physiologically as the condition of lacking visual perception. ... A Baptist is a member of a Baptist church. ... A survivalist is a person who anticipates a potential disruption in the continuity of local, regional or worldwide society, and takes steps to survive in the resulting unpredictable situation. ... Lexington Minuteman representing militia minuteman John Parker A militia is a group of citizens organized to provide paramilitary service. ... United States Attorneys represent the U.S. federal government in United States district court. ... Waco is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas. ...

In both the book Primal Fear and its movie adaptation, it's only revealed at the very end that Stampler was faking multiple personality disorder.