Editing Kendall Francois (section)

==Background==

Kendall Francois was born and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York. He lived at 99 Fulton Avenue with his parents, McKinley and Paulette, and his sister Kierstyn. After graduating high school in 1989, Francois joined the army and was stationed at Fort Sill in Oklahoma and later in Honolulu. In an interesting coincidence, the [[Honolulu Strangler]], an uncaught serial killer, was active in that same area in the late 1980s. However, Francois and the unsolved Strangler case have not been connected.

In 1994, Francois was discharged from the army and returned home to Poughkeepsie, moving back in with his family at 99 Fulton Avenue. He got a job as a middle school custodian, later a hall monitor, at Arlington Middle School. Known for his poor personal hygiene, the kids began to call Francois "Stinky" because of his body odour. At the same time, Francois began to frequent Poughkeepsie's red light district and used the services of local prostitutes regularly. Several prostitutes in the area also began to refer to him by the nickname "Stinky" and also noted that he enjoyed rough sex.