Steven Nehl / AP If evil—pure evil—exists, is it an elegant, seductive aura of darkness, or a shambling, seriocomic parody of good? Theologians debate this point, but I think a real villain is usually part clown—less Hannibal Lecter, more Oswald T. Cobblepot. I base that belief, in part, on the life of a man named Christian Longo, who in 2001 murdered his wife MaryJane, and their three small children, Zachery, Sadie, and Madison, and threw their bodies into the coastal waters near the seaport town of Newport, Oregon.