That night, Juan de Dios Martínez thought to himself that he was beginning to like the Penitent. The first attack was violent and the sexton was almost killed, but as the days went by he was perfecting his technique. With the second attack he had only frightened some churchgoers, and with the third no one saw him and he was able to work in peace.
Detective empathizing and admiring a criminal who stabbed a man and going around desecrating churches
