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Chris Akin, who had known the 'virgin killer' for several years, told
the Mirror he noticed a sinister change in him after he started to
take creatine

The British serial killer who slaughtered six people in a bloody
rampage had become hooked on a bodybuilding supplement, a close
friend has claimed.
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Chris Akin, who knew 'virgin killer' Elliot Rodger for several years
after meeting him on holiday, said he noticed a sinister change in
him over the past four months after he started to take creatine to
build up his muscles.
The crazed 22-year-old, who butchered his three flat-mates at his
home on Friday before driving round the student town of Isla Vista,
California and fatally shooting three others, took creatine every day
and was secretive about his dosage, according to Chris.
He claimed he saw the anger and changes in the student - the son
of Hollywood director Peter Rodger - during their weekly chats on
Skype.
Chris, from Chicago, Illinois, said the London-born killer became
obsessed with bodybuilding and began taking the muscle-boosting
chemical in his quest for a perfect body to attract girls.
While the widely-used supplement isnt illegal, some users have
reported side-effects such as violent mood-swings and depression.
It is believed Rodger was introduced to creatine by others on the
website bodybuilding.com, which he regularly used.
Members have reported side-effects from taking the organic acid,
including both mental and health issues.
Devastated Chris also claims his pal went off the rails after a friend
died in a freak bodybuilding accident earlier this year.
He then turned to creatine to help throw himself into bodybuilding
to drown his feelings.
At the same time he began to be bullied online and endlessly
harassed in private messages by an internet gang.
Chris told the Mirror: Elliot was a good friend of mine, I had known
him for a few years now, we would Skype each other weekly and talk
about life.
Honestly I never thought he would he capable of something this
horrid, but I believe I know why.
He would also tell me how he wanted to get into the bodybuilding
lifestyle and started on creatine around four months ago. I could
notice the anger and changes every time we spoke on Skype.
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He wasnt very different at first, but after a while it seemed like he
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Chris believes a campaign of online bullying by people on online
forums also contributed to his friends decline.
The friend, who met the killer during a holiday to Isla Vista, said:
There was also a whole crew of people who would cyber bully him
by email and on social networks to no end.
I believe there are more factors that contributed to him snapping,
he frequented bodybuilding forums were he was endlessly harassed
in private messages and on threads that he created.
He posted a lot of messages about being alone and wanting women.
But this group of people would call him ugly and make fun of him.
On the messages I saw they would taunt him and tell him he will
never get girls and he will be forever alone.
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Chris also claims Rodger was affected after the shocking death of a
mutual friend who died in a bizarre body building accident as he
attempted to lift a 350kg weight.
He added: The more I dwell on this the more I realise that it may
have set him off and made him turn to creatine to drown his
feelings.
It comes as cops revealed they discovered a machete and hammer in
twisted Rodgers flat - which may have been used to slay his first
three victims George Chen, 19, Weihan Wang, 20 and Cheng Yuan
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Rodger, full of anger at still being a virgin at age 22, then calmly got
in his black BMW and went on a shooting rampage, killing sorority
sisters Veronika Weiss, 19, and Katie Cooper, 22, and fellow
University of California Santa Barbara student Chris Michael-Martinez,
20.
Twisted Rodger, who moved with his family from London to Los
Angeles when he was five, left a chilling manifesto and video
describing how he was going to carry out his massacre because of
his hatred for women - who he said endlessly spurned him in a day
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The sickening document also described his plans to kill his
stepmother Soumaya and younger brother Jazz as he was jealous of
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