Michael Deets



Michael Deets was a serial killer featured in the South Park episode "Cartman's Incredible Gift". He murdered and removed the left hands of several people throughout the episode, including the school bus driver Ms. Crabtree. He would remain at the sight of each murder, clad in a blood splattered rain coat and a pair of yellow panties. When questioned, he would state that he had been molested by a mannequin, whom he claimed was his mother. No one except Kyle suspected him of the murders, and Cartman's false visions caused other people to be wrongly arrested instead.

Eventually, he grew tired of not being "credited" for his murders and proceeded to abduct Cartman from his home and forced him to watch sideshow of places he's been to. Soon thereafter, several police officers, led by Sergeant Yates, appear at his doorstep in order to continue an investigation into the recent string of murders. After identifying himself as "God", Deets allows the officers to enter his house. Yates and the others fail to take note of anything suspicious, until they come across Deets' collection of severed left hands - which he subsequently dismisses as being a completely innocent collection of severed right hands.

After considerable examination and evaluation of the evidence before him, and forgetting what it was he was supposed to be doing, Yates realizes that what he believed were right hands were, in fact, left hands placed the opposite way. Acting on this revelation, Yates returns to Deets' house just in time to prevent him from killing Cartman. Deets leaps out at the police officers with a knife, but is shot dead. Yates then proceeded to shoot him in the head a few additional times, just because.

The character of Michael Deets combines elements from real life serial killers Ed Gein, the "Zodiac Killer" and Jeffrey Dahmer (the latter of which made an appearance of his own on South Park), as well as fictional serial killers Francis Dolarhyde and Buffalo Bill from the Hannibal Lecter novel and film series, and Norman Bates from the novel and film Psycho.