What serial killer

[Janepod]

Ted Bundy.

I read "Stranger Beside Me" when I was a teenager. It was written by Ann Rule, who was a friend of his - not knowing he was a serial killer. He opened up to her about a lot of things and her perspective on him is very interesting.

This book taught me more about personal safety than anything else (parents, self-defense classes, magazine articles). When you read how he chose or convinced his victims, it will make you very aware and perceptive and CAREFUL. For example, when he killed the girls in Florida -- they lived in a row house with sliding doors in the back. Every house on the block was like this. He went from house to house trying the doors. The first few were locked so he moved on to the next. When he found a house with unlocked doors, he went in. Needless to say, I lock my doors all the time!

Ed Gein is another one who I can't help but watch on TV, but with my hands over my face and my fingers in my ears. Disgusting. (But they all are!)

 

[PrincessKsMom]

What serial poster

do you find yourself glues to the computer when there doing a thingie on them "

Manson- his eyes are so cold
Zodiac - havent caught him
BTK - he seems so normal

low-key - his posts are so different

 

[krcit]

Dahmer was normal, and was quite a nice guy. You know, aside from his particular predilictions and the results of same.

A few serial killers are really bonkers (I mean if we for the moment don't consider killing people bonkers on its face), but many are as normal as anyone with a fetish that most people don't know about.

*Obviously* most people don't harm others through their drives, and it's an entirely different deal when that's involved, but... yeah.

Aside from keeping a house full of body parts and cannibalism and trolling for people to kill and eat, Dahmer was a nice, normal guy, yes. I'm not being facetious. He also felt bad about what he did - he committed suicide in the end, really.

Anyone who kills people and eats them is not normal. He may have appeared 'normal' but he was far from it.

I was always fascinated by Ted Bundy. Read all the books and saw all the movies. I think the way he captured his victims was so scary.

 

[4greatboys]

I don't think the question was, "Who do you admire for their killings" but rather, who do you sit up and take note of.

They are monsters, but I think a lot of us are mesmerized by their story because it is so far removed from who we are, just like they are when watching shows like CSI or true stories like Cold Case.

Dawn

I completely agree. I don't think any of them are special or "rock stars". I think most of us want to understand how they can do such horrific things, or how these people (most of them) seem to have normal family lives and none of their family members have a clue what's going on.

 

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[Feralpeg]

I find Ted Bundy to be fascinating. Here's a guy who seemed to have everything going for him.

Interesting, the sorority house where he beat to death two co-eds at Florida State is still in operation. I did some research for a paranormal show about haunted sites in Florida awhile back. The sorority house was one of the places that is supposed to be haunted. Occasionally, a coed will get out of the shower to find the initials T.B. written in steam on the bathroom mirror. Also, the guards at the Florida State Penitentiary, where Ted Bundy was executed, say they have seem him since in areas of the prison.

I find profiling of serial killers to be very interesting.

 

[ginna74]

john wayne gacey --he is interesting and was told some things from my mom about some similarities that he and my bio father had and how she was spooked out bad... So when I hear about him I get interested

 

[dngnb8]

 

[gregokdisney]

Not a serial killer but I was once really obsessed with Jeffery McDonald, the Green Beret who claimed some hippies broke in and killed his pregnant wife and two daughters. Creepy!