# Artists that were insane/murderers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-were-insane-murderers/323754>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 27, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-were-insane-murderers/323754 "2005-09-27T23:19:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-were-insane-murderers/323754/21 "2005-09-30T05:49:05Z")

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[murder](http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/furtherReading.asp?id=141&venue=2) (dark but work safe). After the famous “absinthe murder” the Montmartre scene became more prone to depict acts of violence and the grotesque (though by then Toulouse-Lautrec was dead and the scene had seriously faded anyway).

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**Author:** ![PetW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@PetW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PetW)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-were-insane-murderers/323754/22 "2005-09-30T14:31:00Z")

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> [@Scott Plaid](#):
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> Charley Manson tried to become a pop singer.

His CD is [actually on amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005X1J/qid=1128091384/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-5852377-9165748?v=glance&s=music), although I wouldn’t call it “pop.” He sounds more like a folksy country singer, sort of like Willie Nelson. His music is actually surprisingly good - supposedly the fact that the music industry was part of his motivation in his murder conspiracies.

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**Author:** ![PetW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@PetW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PetW)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-were-insane-murderers/323754/23 "2005-09-30T14:43:45Z")

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That should be “supposedly the fact that the music industry rejected him was part of his motivation…”  
And now that I’ve read more of the thread I realize that I was hijacking it, sorry about that. Goodluck with your story!

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-were-insane-murderers/323754/24 "2005-09-30T14:43:49Z")

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[Billy Milligan](http://www.danielkeyesauthor.com/milligan.html), serial rapist and violent gay basher who beat the rap by claiming to be a multi-personality in the time of the Sybil bruhaha, was also a painter who made quite a lot on his works as a result of his infamy.

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