Right-wing preacher turned politician Victor Marx has said that he first killed a man when he was 7. He's not sure how many deaths he's been responsible for since. Marx has been arrested at least twice for disorderly conduct and has described terrorizing a psychiatrist with talk of murdering him. He told Colorado journalist Kyle Clark that he can perform exorcisms by phone. Last week, he was declared the winner of the Republican gubernatorial primary in Colorado.

Marx is the sort of character Carl Hiaasen might have conjured if he took mushrooms and wandered into a certain church. He's the son of a man named Karl Marx--really--who invented a form of "Cajun karate." (Victor apparently holds a seventh-degree black belt.) The younger Marx calls himself a "high-risk humanitarian" and tells stories of charging into war zones to perform acts of Christian rescue.

At one point, his website claimed he'd saved more than 40,000 women and girls from sex trafficking, though under scrutiny, he amended that figure to "more than one and less than a bunch." Reporters have also been unable to find evidence of his purported childhood homicide, which he says he committed at the insistence of an abusive stepfather.

These discrepancies haven't stopped Marx........

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