I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.

Araya enrolled in a two-year technical course learning about air mixture ratios drawing blood and how to intubate. ' They’d call me at 5:00 in the morning and wake me 'Someone’s not coming in we need you to come in to work.

Much of Araya's lyrical content is about serial killers a subject he finds interesting first making his lyrical contribution to 1985's Hell Awaits with the track "At Dawn They Sleep". Araya is ranked fifty-eighth by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time.