The Murder Gene

<p>As the soft-spoken highly intelligent son of missionaries in Morganton North Carolina Luke Chang gave no indication of the killer he would become. But after hacking into a teacher's computer at his school a stint in the Marines was his only option.</p><p>As a young recruit Luke was taunted for being a virgin who didn't cuss drink or smoke pot. That all changed when Luke met Casey Byrams a fun-loving musician and fellow Marine from Cullman Alabama. Their friendship set off a series of events that would eventually lead Luke to Pendleton Oregon where he brutally murdered nineteen-year-old Amyjane Brandhagen in August 2012. When Luke attempted to kill another woman almost a year later Pendleton Police knew they had a serial-killer wannabe on their hands. </p><p>Some forty years prior to Amyjane's murder Luke's maternal grandfather Gene Dale Lincoln murdered a young Michigan woman and attempted to abduct a twelve-year-old girl. The similarities between the violent actions of grandfather and grandson compels the question: Is there such a thing as a murder gene?</p>