He received a heart to save his life, but he went on to plot to cut out the heart of another. The story of Andrew Busskohl of Minnesota has shocked the Americans.
Back in 2004 14-year-old Busskohl of Woodbury in the state told a reporter, "I plan on becoming a surgeon," showing off the scar on his chest while flexing his muscles for the camera.
And last fortnight the boy was booked into the Washington County Jail and released on $100,000 bail on the condition that he undergo a psychiatric evaluation at an area hospital.
Police say he had planned to sneak into a neighbour’s home and perpetrate a gruesome killing, for no apparent reason, evoking the image of Shakespeare’s Iago, the motiveless murderer.
As veteran actor Anthony Hopkins would say of the character he plays in Fracture, "He could have divorced her, but to kill her is a bit strange. I think he does it as a peculiar mental exercise to see if he can perform the perfect crime. I suppose there people around who have done things like that. A case in point: Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' (with) the motiveless murder or Shakespeare's Iago who just malignantly destroys peoples lives and at the ends says 'just because I can, I choose to.'
Busskohl's arrest followed a turn of events that began Aug. 6 when James Fratto called Woodbury police shortly after 1 a.m. to report that someone had shattered his patio window.