Katrice's sister Natasha Lee, 39, wrote a victim statement which described Wright as "pure evil".

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What's more, the series trades on a formula that has played well with cable audiences: layered characters that are neither entirely good nor pure evil.

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Gnomes and elves live underground and their motives range from pure evil to cheeky mischief, as embodied in garden gnomes, the cult's chief manifestation today.

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Why would a burlap-suited guy in a primitive society, thousands of years from now on what used to be Hawaii, visualize the embodiment of pure evil in Victorian fashion?

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While technology can certainly be a force multiplier for good or evil, it's difficult to imagine a pure A.I. approach reverse-engineering the machinations of a terrorist mastermind.

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