Virginia Slasher

The Virginia Slasher was a serial killer based in the Southern United States around the time of the American Civil War, on Earth-20181. His or her kill count numbered in the millions, proving that he or she was incredibly proficient at murder. The slayings were so widespread that Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas were condemned by the federal government and turned into abandoned wastelands, beginning in 1876. By 1992, despite the intensive span of time that had passed, the Slasher was believed to somehow still be at large—this was linked to the idea that a number of serial killers, including the Bow Hunter Killer and the Worthington Butcher had been active for many more decades than what seemed possible. The notion of the Slasher's survival had led to the formation of the Launch Kentucky into Space Movement, which was a political movement desiring to destroy Kentucky and the surrounding states by launching them into the sun, which was believed to be capable of killing the Slasher. (The area had been struck by nuclear weapons many times over the years, but those who wandered in the wastes were still murdered later, with their bodies dumped outside of the “Slasher Zone”.)

Presumably, if the Slasher did indeed survive past a natural human lifespan, he or she perished by Earth-20181 fell into its Sun in the year 2070.

Trivia

 * The Virginia Slasher also happens to appear in a never-released film by an associate of Frank Jenkins, the late Yaubus Redford. This film, called Aristocrat Slaughterhouse, is said to be a recut version of Gone with the Wind that paints Rhett Butler as the eponymous killer. Though the Slasher is definitely canon with The Life of Mocata (unlike another of Redford's creation, Doctor Ghibourkei), his identity as Rhett Butler is not part of continuity. A forthcoming examination of Yaubus Redford's various works has been written Life of Mocata Wiki user AmosTrar.
 *  It is mentioned in the Author's Notes that initially, the Life of Mocata  version of the Virginia Slasher was going to be revealed to be Colonel Sanders. This was probably cut due to absurdity, even though many other such random, absurd things take place on Earth-20181. Ironically, Colonel Sanders was born in 1890—the same year as Edward Tamaron.