Next to this, there are three sets of five-tic marks, adding up to 15. Both of these signs were written by Abrahams himself. The phrase reads 8 is just infinity stood up. Further inside the house, there is another phrase written in black ink, just behind a small shelf. Inside the house, the player can find the phrase There will be 8 written in black ink on a broken chunk of wall. The location of Merle Abram's house in Sandy Shores.
The house appears to have been abandoned for many years, as it is in a very decrepit state.
The house appears to have been set on fire intentionally some time before the events of GTA V, because its interior is severely charred and burned. Merle Abraham's house is located in Sandy Shores, Blaine County. These clues illustrate his psychotic mentality and his rise to insanity over the course of a few years. Most of these clues come in the form of short phrases written on walls by Abrahams himself, usually describing his motivations behind the murders. There are many in-game clues around the state of San Andreas, which reference Merle Abrahams and the Infinity Murders. The bodies of his murder victims were never found. He never confessed to have carried out the murders, but he admitted to having an irrational obsession with the number 8.
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At some point during his incarceration, his house in Sandy Shores was intentionally set on fire and vandalized, possibly by one of his neighbors.Ībrahams later died in December 2004 at age 57, while awaiting trial for the Infinity Murders. Soon after, he was captured by the police and incarcerated in the Bolingbroke Penitentiary. In 1999, Abrahams reached the peak of his psychosis, when he murdered 8 male joggers, and hid their bodies around the state, in a murder spree which was nicknamed by authorities as The Infinity Murders. He claimed that " 8 is just infinity turned sideways", hence his nickname The Infinity Killer.
He resided in a home in Sandy Shores for much of his lifetime until he began developing a severely psychotic state of mind and an apparent obsession with the number 8 and infinity (∞). Very little is known about Merle Abrahams' life he was born in 1947, although his location of birth has not been determined.