What Serial Killer

[low-key]

Yep. They were almost all Americans.

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alright, were number 1

 

[hereyago]

It is interesting to watch different ones.


How unassuming they look, except Richard Ramirez, gave me chills.

 

[Cantw8]

I went to the Serial Killer Museum in Florence, Italy.

It still gives me chills to think about.

A museum? Ok, that's just sick So, it's a rainy day in Florence and you think.."hummm, why don't we go to the serial killer museum"

alright, were number 1

Ok, this is even sicker

 

[low-key]

It is interesting to watch different ones.


How unassuming they look, except Richard Ramirez, gave me chills.

yep, he is real slimy looking

 

[Planogirl]

Charles Manson and his bunch. I have always been fascinated by this "family". I can't imagine what must be broken in people for them to blindly kill for someone.

 

[superme80]

The Zodiac Killer. He killed some people from my hometown. My aunt even knew one of the victims. One of the movies was even filmed in my hometown. So creepy!

 

[Briarmom]

A museum? Ok, that's just sick So, it's a rainy day in Florence and you think.."hummm, why don't we go to the serial killer museum"

It wasn't rainy. We just happened to walk by.

 

[barkley]

The Zodiac Killer. He killed some people from my hometown. My aunt even knew one of the victims. One of the movies was even filmed in my hometown. So creepy!

he's the reason I never watched the news around my kids when they were growing up. the initial killings he took credit for were in close proximity to my childhood home, and I remember the armed guards on the school buses when he made threats against us kids. my parents never discussed what was going on in my presence, but I overheard the nightly local news reports when they were watching it-scared me to the core. much more frightening when post marriage I learned of a very close relationship between my in laws and one of the victims.

dh detested it when I was reading graysmith's book, so many of the other north bay locations he attributed to killing were places I had frequented or commuted through to attend college; compounded with the fact that at the time I was reading it the apartment complex we lived in was right down the road from the blue rock springs killings-I was really freaked out

 

[barkley]

Maybe he don't necessarily fall under the "serial killer" definition, but I am strangely fascinated with Jim Jones.

I so strongly remember watching the local San Francisco bay area news as the entire jim jones/people's temple story evolved-especially after the tragedy as the plane loads after plane loads of caskets arrived back.

10 years later I went to work for social services in a county that had a good sized population of residents that would bounce back and forth between that county and San Francisco. it was chilling when as a staff member you opened a reopened case folder to find only one or two of many listed YOUNG family members coded as living, only learning upon reading old documentation that the remainder of the family (and dozens of other relatives in cross referenced cases) all had the same date of death due to the mass 'suicide' I had co-workers who 20 years later were unable to hold back the tears if they were reminded of the event.

 

[BrookieCookie]

I watched a documentary on Jeffrey Dahmer not to long ago, it was really interesting. I would like to see one on the Zodiac Killer. I'm not too familiar with that one.

 

[njmom47]

DH will watch any and all of them, and since I'm usually in the same room, I watch by default. Gacy is just the creepiest ever, though IMO.

(Marko Bey and Richard Biegenwald are 2 serial killers from my area. One of the victims was a classmate's mom.)

 

[Mkrop]

I was fascinated by Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dhamer. Where are these documentaries? I read books on both

 

[JessicaR]

I was fascinated by Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dhamer. Where are these documentaries? I read books on both

Netflix has them and occasionally The history channel has segments or serial killer weeks. They also sell bio's on amazon.

 

[superme80]

he's the reason I never watched the news around my kids when they were growing up. the initial killings he took credit for were in close proximity to my childhood home, and I remember the armed guards on the school buses when he made threats against us kids. my parents never discussed what was going on in my presence, but I overheard the nightly local news reports when they were watching it-scared me to the core. much more frightening when post marriage I learned of a very close relationship between my in laws and one of the victims.

dh detested it when I was reading graysmith's book, so many of the other north bay locations he attributed to killing were places I had frequented or commuted through to attend college; compounded with the fact that at the time I was reading it the apartment complex we lived in was right down the road from the blue rock springs killings-I was really freaked out

My MIL was a bus driver in the Foothills during the threat on the buses and the children. She was terrified every time she went into work.

 

[barkley]

My MIL was a bus driver in the Foothills during the threat on the buses and the children. She was terrified every time she went into work.

I bet. to this day I won't watch the movie 'dirty harry' because it brings back bad memories.

 

[willowsnn3]

I watch most of the ones about the Atlanta Child murders back around 1979--81 because I was familiar with all the places and my kids were about the same ages as those children. But I don't believe for a minute Wayne Williams was guilty of all the murders.

Not a serial killer but Charles Manson just fascinates me! I would be very afraid to be alone with that man.

 

[jlay68]

I've been addicted to the Investigation (ID) Discovery channel lately. They have a new show called "Infamous" about serial killers. Watched one about Joel Rifkin today...creepy. Made my husband update all our locks after watching so many true crime shows.

The National Museum of Crime & Punishment in DC has a serial killer section including Ted Bundy's VW bug.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

The Boston Strangler. It was because of him our family first started getting German Shepherds. Police, at the time, recommended it. Talk to anyone from the Greater Boston area who grew up in the 60s, and chances are good they had a Shepherd, too.

 

[mmouse37]

Tom Luther. Just finished reading a book about him called "Monster" by Steve Jackson. I had never even heard of him before but he was a very handsome guy who murdered several women.

On a snowy winter evening in 1982, twenty-one-year-old Mary Brown accepted a ride from a handsome stranger in the resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado. The trip ended with her brutally beaten and raped. Mary survived, but her predator's violence had only just begun.

After ten years in prison, Tom Luther was released a far more vicious criminal. Soon, from the Rockies to West Virginia, like Ted Bundy, Luther enticed a chain of women into his murderous trap. In this gripping new edition of a true crime masterpiece, acclaimed author Steve Jackson recounts the intriguing pursuit and long awaited conviction of a charismatic, monstrous psychopath--one who remains a suspect in three other crimes, and has never given up hope of escape.


And of course the regulars....Bundy, Gacy, Dahmer, etc. I find them fascinating and always wonder how they turned out that way....nature or nurture. Ed Gein was a very interesting character and was used as the basis for Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

I am addicted to the ID channel.

MJ

 

[aprilgail2]

I watch all of them- also read all those real crime type books. The Jim Jones thing I remember reading about that all when I was a teen. My daughter did a paper for school recently about the high number of serial killers that were adopted- some of them included-

David Berkowitz (son of Sam)
Eileen Wuornos (Serial Killer)
Kenneth Bianchi (Hillside Strangler)
Thomas Hamilton (School Shooter)
Ted Bundy (Co-ed Killer)
Richard Speck; (Nurse Murders)
Brandi Lynn Hungerford (Black Widow)
Jeff Weise (Red Lake School Shooter)
Lawrence Bittaker (Hitchhiker Rape Murders)
Rex Allen Krebs (Serial Rape-Murderer)
Gaetan Dugas (Patient Zero)
Tommy Lynn Sells (Serial Killer)
Max Gufler (Serial Killer);
Catherine Gypsy Share (Manson Family Murders)
Luke Helder (Smiley Face Mail Bomber)
Joseph Kalinger (Philadelphia Shoemaker)
Joel Rifkin (Serial Killer)
Sandra Camille Bridewell (Black Widow)
Christian Longo (Serial Killer)
Michael James Perry (Romeo Killer)
Albert Desalvo (Boston Strangler)