Did Benjamin Atkins have a mental illness

Fri 25 sep 2009 11.57 edt.Breaking benjamin's new album 'dark before dawn' opened at number one, but frontman benjamin burnley has little relief from his mystery illness.Benjamin tony atkins, also known as the woodward corridor killer, was an american serial killer who killed 11 women in detroit, michigan during a period of 9 months between december 1991 and august 1992.Darlene saunders, 35, escaped murder but was raped.All the victims were found in vacant buildings, all were raped and strangled.

The timeline uses the term used for.There's no indication that benjamin franklin had any notable mental illness, but he did have all kinds of ideas about mental health and wellbeing, including his proverbial teaching promoting good sleep hygiene:His mother was a prostitute.Shortly after his birth, tony's father left the family.Many of the victims were working as prostitutes.

The youngest of three siblings it was noted that atkins had a very bad childhood, common with serial killers.Died in prison on september 17, 1997.However, it would be short lived, as on september 17th 1997, atkins died in the prisons hospital from an aids related illness.He had pleaded innocent by reason of insanity, and his lawyer blamed the slayings on atkins' addiction to crack cocaine and a horrible childhood.the victims were prostitutes whom atkins lured into abandoned buildings along a decrepit detroit street with promises of crack, police said.Benjamin thomas atkins was born on august 26, 1968 in detroit, the younger of two brothers.