Nathanial Raber was interested in something he referred to as 'Metaphysical Biology'. Whether or not this stemmed from the fact his mother was a physician, and led to his eventual expulsion from Yale University's Medical School (which to this day the reasons still have not been made clear) is uncertain. Also he was obsessed with world religions. His house had many books on the subject and notes scribbled on the pages indicate he sought a universal weakness. He seemed to seek the single thread that if pulled would unravel all of the world's sacred beliefs.
I'd like to meet:
That’s fairly obvious: Nathanial Raber.
This web page is dedicated to Raber. This will be all things Raber. I plan on posting newspaper articles, video clips from news shows, pictures and bios of his victims, anything I can get my hands on that will bring an understanding to what he was and what he hoped to accomplish. I will leave no stone unturned.
As of this time the police aren’t talking, and my request for info was blocked by that bastard Cates. They’ve even started a file on me! Well here’s to freedom of speech and religion! That can’t tell me what to say and they certainly can’t tell me who to worship. Thank Raber for the internet!!!!!
Music:
Chamber music and opera seems to be the sophisticated killer's choice, particularly Mozart and Cecilia Bartoli (someone he refered to as the anti-Diva). There was also a woman's gypsy group "Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares" we seemed to be quite fond of. I've listened to some of this (I hope to post some tracks soon) and it definitely sounds like something you would have heard in Dracula's castle, if he'd had a home stereo. Oddly enough he also had Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin albums.
Movies:
After Raber was killed police scoured his home, trying to find as many clues to him and his motives as possible. Oddly enough he had an extensive VHS library, even more bizarre was that none of it was pornographic. An example of his collection is: 'Rosemary's Baby' (maybe the concept of the Devil's birth into this world meant something to him), 'Curse of the Demon'(this one deals with the power of black magic as used for revenge), Jean Cocteau's 'La Belle et la bete' (this one I can't figure out the significance), and The Punisher (another puzzler-the good guy wins).
Television:
He had a TV, but there wasn't any cable hookups and mini-dishes on his house. In fact it was only connected to a VCR.
Books:
Raber could have opened his own library. I was able to see a few photographs of the inside of his house and here are some of what I saw. It all seems pretty significant: 'Marriage of Heaven & Hell' (Blake), Tirieo (Blake again), 'Paradise Lost' (Milton), 'Faust' (Geothe), several Arthur Rimband poems, 'On the Road' (Kerouac), 'Frankenstein' (Shelley), 'The Killer Inside Me' (Thompson), 'The Brothers Karamazov' (Dostoevsky), the works of Edgar Allen Poe, 'The Screw Tape Letters' (Lewis) and oddly enough 'Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas' (Thompson). This was of course only a drop in the bucket.
Heroes:
It seemed Raber wasn't all that impressed with people in general, but there were a couple he seemed to admire: Aleister Crowley, Vlad Drakul, Stalin, Jack 'The Black Devil' Jefferson and J. Robert Oppenheimer.
