The Bad Rhoda Penmark, an eight-year-old girl, is the central character in the 1956 film "The Bad Seed." Beneath her sweet and polite exterior lies a manipulative and remorseless sociopath. Rhoda commits several murders, including drowning her schoolmate Claude Daigle for a penmanship medal, and setting fire to caretaker LeRoy Jessup. Her mother, Christine, uncovers Rhoda's dark nature and learns that it may be inherited from a notorious serial kille