In 1992, then-Lake County Superior Court Judge Bernard Carter ordered psychiatrists to examine a St. John Township man accused of “bizarre crimes against animals.”

The 21-year-old man stole a Rottweiller dog and broke its neck even though he was on probation for pleading guilty the previous year to killing a rooster and a goose in separate incidents.

Previous to that, the man’s neighbors suspected he was behind a series of disappearances of sheep, goats, a calf, and other pets from the rural area. And he always rode his bicycle to conduct his twisted acts of perversion with animals.

Have you guessed the identity of this obviously mentally ill man? Yes, of course, it’s Michael Bessigano, the now 42-year-old headline-grabber from New Chicago. Last week, he was arrested yet again on felony charges of bestiality, killing a domestic animal, and mutilating a vertebrate animal.

When cops searched his home, they found feathers from a dead bird, bestiality pornography, a rubber wolf-head mask, and an altar surrounded by candles.

“And the pants he was wearing were covered in blood,” added Lake County Sheriff’s Police Detective Michelle Dvorsack, the lead investigator in Bessigano’s case since 2007.

Go ahead and snicker before we collectively shake our heads in disbelief. Again, after 20-plus years of reading about his misdeeds. We do it every time we hear about this guy, the “chicken man,” whose most infamous act was having sex with a live chicken in a hotel room back in 2001.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

The menstrual cycle changes among Hassidic Jewish women was something as well.

“And the pants he was wearing were covered in blood,”

When cops searched his home, they found feathers from a dead bird, bestiality pornography, a rubber wolf-head mask, and an altar surrounded by candles

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

I thought they blew him up in Philly years ago.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

whose most infamous act was having sex with a live chicken in a hotel room back in 2001.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Wait a second. There's a New Chicago?

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Yes sir. Spent the first 20 yrs of my life there.

Man, I spent the first 25 years of my life in regular Chicago and never heard that once. I know East Chicago, of course. And North Chicago.

Google Maps tells me there is a New Chicago, California as well. If my reading of the satellite is accurate, there are exactly five houses there.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.