“The tattoos look cool, huh?” asked Kron as he displayed the scales on his forearm, shaded to look as though they are shimmering. “Unfortunately, I don’t think they’re a clue. Just aesthetics.”
The same disorder that prevents Kron from recalling the circumstances of his own attack and his wife’s murder leaves him unable to recall the origin of his estimated $950-worth of lizard skin tattoos. “I definitely didn’t have these (tattoos) before my wife’s death,” he said. “But to construe them as some kind of note-to-self to help me track down the man who killed her would really be stretching it.”
Kron also sports a bifurcated tongue and small metal implants on his forehead that resemble lizard’s jutting brow, neither of which are at all relevant to his tragic past. “When I woke up this morning I looked at myself in the mirror and I thought—as I’m sure I do most mornings—okay, this has to mean something,” said Kron. “But it doesn’t. I was just following some weird impulse, I guess.”
Kron added that his job appearing as The Lizardman at the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museum in Hollywood is the only aspect of his post-amnesia transformation that does make sense to him. “It’s fun being in the spotlight,” he said. “And the pay is good.”