PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Grady Franklin Stiles, Jr. Born on the 26th of June 1937. Was a freak show performer. His deformity was ectrodactyly, in which the fingers and toes are fused together to form claw-like extremities. Stiles' stage name was the "Lobster Boy"
This disease was common in his family.His father was already an attraction at the traveling sideshows, so he quickly put Grady to work in the tents at age 7, billing him as the amazing Lobster Boy, a moniker he would retain for the remainder of his life.
This deformity didn't keep the afflicted members of the Stiles family down, however, as they found their perfect role in the "carnival freak" community. Grady's freakishness was spectacular, as not only were his hands fused into claws, but also his legs and feet were stunted into flippers.
Grady grew up and married a fellow freak show performer and had 4 children,two of those being "lobsters". He was constantly both mentally and physically abusive towards his wife and children.
His handicap left him unable to walk, but because he constantly used his arms to move he developed massive upper body strength, allowing him to deliver vicious pinches, punches, headbutts and choke holds to any and all who displeased him.
In 1978 one of his 2 non-lobster children got engaged. Grady got very jealous of this and decide to end the marriage before it happened by shot gunning her fiancee to death the day before the wedding.
Even though Grady openly admitted to the act and showed no remorse whatsoever, he was set free after being sentenced to only 15 years probation, presumably because the prison system had no facilities to accommodate lobsters.
It seemed only a matter of time before he made good, so Mary and her son Glenn paid another carnival worker $1,500 to shoot Grady four times in the head while he drank and watched television.
Grady Stiles was so despised in his community that nobody could be found to step forward to serve as a pallbearer,when he died on the 29th of November 1992and his simple gravestone was devoid of any epitaph. The only engravings, aside from his name, were two sets of praying hands.
