In the spring, Luther Creed was reveling the fact that it was Victor's birthday but his younger brother didn't get any pie. Hearing the commotion, their mother came in to find Victor crouching over his brother's body holding the pie as if nothing was wrong.
From then on, Victor was chained in the family cellar, with his father coming down to remove his 'devil teeth' on a routine basis. One time, when Victor warned his mother to let him go, she explained that she was too afraid of his father to do so. He told her she should be more afraid of him.
Years later, Victor managed to pull one of the chains from the wall. Unable to get the other chain loose, he chewed through his other wrist instead to get free. It was then that he murdered his father.
