Malek and the dog barbecue

In 1959, at age 22, Malek was arrested along with five other men in Vicary’s Park near Peoria, Illinois, after police found their car spattered with blood, and a dog that had been skinned, gutted and spitted over a barbecue pit in the park. Malek and the other men were charged with cruelty to animals, but the charges against Malek were dropped after one of the others confessed to killing the dog and said he acted alone. Malek has claimed that he did not participate in the incident.

Maybe it was some kind of Aqua Buddha cult initiation.

Seems like a lot of present-day conservatives were involved in some exceedingly weird stuff when they were young, and not harmless stuff at that.