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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Dec 17, 2013 22:41:13 GMT -5
the concept horrifies me but at the same time I can't help but find the psychology behind it all fascinating.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2013 0:00:19 GMT -5
I'm honestly more interested in what they did as their day job, how they found their victims, how did they go on for so long without getting caught, and how did they get caught
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Post by ayumidah on Dec 18, 2013 2:36:20 GMT -5
I go down this rabbit hole every now and again, and assassinations and just general conspiracy theories. I have spent many, many hours reading articles and watching TV shows about them, etc. It always leaves me creeped out, especially since I mainly end up doing it late at night, but I can't stop easily once I get started.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 18, 2013 2:48:09 GMT -5
I have been interested in them about as long as I can remember. As a little kid, America's Most Wanted was one of my favorite shows, and the serial killer trading cards in Addams Family Values, I always wished I could have.
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Post by celticjobber on Dec 18, 2013 3:25:34 GMT -5
Yeah, I've always been interested in true crime stories.
One of the first serial killer cases I read about was the husband and wife serial killer duo of Gerald and Charlene Gallego.
They kidnapped and killed atleast 10 people in Southern California in 1978-1980 (mostly teenagers). And kept some as sex slaves before they killed them. It's a pretty horrible story.
The book about their killing spree, "A Venom In The Blood" is really interesting...
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Dec 18, 2013 6:23:27 GMT -5
I suppose he's technically not a killer himself (bullshit), but I am fascinated Charles Manson. I am just amazed that a man this obviously crazy managed to seduce so many people into treating him like a God and actually got them to commit murder for him. It's incredible that people who are so far gone so often manage to be very persuasive and resourceful too. I think what's so fascinating about serial killers is that so many of them are convinced they're admirable people. Even when they realize that people find them evil and even when they embrace this image, they still believe they're the good guy of their own story. I have a serial killer Encyclopedia. I want to be a criminal profiler as a back up to wrestling so I want to figure out what goes on in these people's minds Dude, you should make "criminal profiler" your gimmick!
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Dec 18, 2013 7:25:09 GMT -5
Not just serial killers. But spree shooters, cultist murders/mass suicides. I find the whole area extremely fascinating. I especially find the Jonestown cult & mass suicides to be interesting stuff.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 18, 2013 8:48:37 GMT -5
I used to find serial killers morbidly fascinating. It's extremely interesting to read up about how they became the way they were, and the rituals they followed.
I stopped doing it when I was reading an article about serial killers in Bizarre magazine, with tweets from readers, one of whom said they had a tattoo of John Wayne Gacy and how awesome they thought he was. That was so majorly over the line for my liking (and I can't believe they printed the comment) that it stopped me from wanting to read up about it.
These days I prefer serial killer fiction/TV shows. It's the same kind of fascination without making me worry about my own mental wellbeing...
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Dec 18, 2013 10:01:58 GMT -5
I was surprised by the number of them I hadn't heard about before so I started looking them up. Reading about George Banks... what in the f***?! He may not be the most horrifying of them (though he's up there), but he's certainly one of the weirdest... dude thought he was somehow in a private war against Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
That's what I find especially weird about some serial killers: the way they often create intricate and completely unfounded paranoid scenarios in their heads and live by them. Manson thought the Beatles' White Album proved that he's Jesus and that a race ware was about to begin, Richard Chase thought drinking blood and eating animals he'd just killed raw (sometimes mixed with Coca-Cola...?!) would prevent his heart from shrinking because of Nazis attacking him from flying saucers, Ahmad Suradji thought his killings would give him superpowers, etc...
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Post by rapidfire187 on Dec 18, 2013 10:42:50 GMT -5
I have the A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. I think the most interesting and f***ed up person in that book was Albert Fish.
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