Grady Stiles II (aka "The Lobster Boy") was born in Pittsburgh, USA in 1937. Like many other members of his family, his hands and legs were genetically fused to form lobster-like pincers. The genetic deformity has a 50% chance of passing on to future generations. He was raised as a 'freak', travelling around the United States in some of the biggest travelling carnivals from the 1940s through until the 1980s.
During his life he married a woman named Mary and had four children. When one of his daughters tried to elope with a boyfriend of whom he did not approve, Grady shot him dead at point blank range. Amazingly, the courts did not jail him for committing this murder, so for the rest of his life the Lobster Boy physically abused his family. He would tell them "I killed once and got away with it. I can do it again". He abused his wife the most frequently and harshly. He made a habit of smacking her face, head-butting her mouth, and sexually abusing her with a blackjack. In 1992, his wife hired a teen-age neighbor $1500 to kill him. The neighbor shot 55-year-old Grady in the back of the head as he sat in his mobile home, watching television in his underwear.
His son, Grady Stiles III, briefly followed in his father's footsteps as a carnival sideshow performer, but traded that in to work as a night manager for a Long John Silver's.