My problem is that I sometimes don’t delve deeply into stories set outside of my baliwick(Northern Ohio). At least, not murders, celebrity doings, etc. I do try to read in-depth coverage of politics.
Time heals all wounds, unless you live in the former Yugoslavia. The parents of Gacy’s victims may still be alive. No immediate relatives of Holmes’ victims are still alive, and we don’t know the names of most of the people he probably killed. This is that “diplomacy” other people have bandied about in that other thread.
Anyway, I was working nights at one of Gacy’s favorite haunts and the SOB apparently didn’t think I was cute enough to kill, so I won’t give him the satisfaction of free publicity.
Richie’s dying in prison. You have plenty of time.
Well, for one thing, it’s not impossible that going to Gacy’s former house you’ll be encountering people who knew him as a neighbor. (Unlikely, at this point, but very far from being impossible.) It’s also a residential neighborhood, AIUI. Whereas the former site of the ‘murder castle’ is apparantly a Post Office, and no one alive, now, is going to be disturbed by the reminders of the crimes. (For that matter, just how prevalent is knowledge of the ‘murder castle’ and Dr. HH Holmes these days? I know about it because I spend too much time at crimelibrary.com.)
The Devil in the White City was a recent bestseller.
Meh, Chambers is so boring. Give me a Jack the Ripper or an Ed Gein any day.
Gacy? Gein? Jack? Bah…compared to Gilles de Rais, they’re all amateurs.
oh yeah diplomacy haha I didn’t even consider how my gawking would affect victims families. Good point. I’d still do it though. I know that people visit the dumpsite of the Black Dahlia down in LA or wherever. I’m partial to Albert Fish and Andrei Chikatilo. Talk about some real nuts. (can I say that here?) I mean Fish had all those needles that he drove into his pelvis!
I’m reading a new book out on BTK right now. He was a big time asshole but overall not that interesting.
It’s only because his normal life was so boring that his “hobby” was particularly interesting. And all that tacky self-promotion? All talk and little action and nobody would’ve heard of him without it.
Perhaps that explains the dearth of videotape of BTK partying with three lingere-clad women.
Whoa, I don’t remember that! I’ll have to go and dig out my History of Cannibalism book.
If you’re into Albert Fish, you should read Caleb Carr’s The Alienist if you have not already done so.
yeah they thought he was just bullshitting and then they did an Xray and there were like 20 long needles up in there. A picture of the xray can be found on the internet I know i’ve seen it before
There was some concern about it when they were preparing to electrocute him.
I tried but realized taht, after immersing myself in true crime, fiction just didn’t cut it anymore.
Cool. It’s just that, in a particular place in the book, I suddenly sat up straight and said to myself, “Holy shit! That’s the Albert Fish letter, almost word-for-word!” :eek:
It was unexpected and disturbing.
Do any of you guys read John Douglas’ books? I’m starting to get really irritating with how much he congratulates himself
What is he congratulating himself for? BTK was only caught because he reused a floppy disc.
no not on the BTK case. The earlier books
Yeah, Douglas is a FOAF, but he is a PITA, and I swear if he mentions nearly dying in Seattle one more time I’ll throw the book through a window. One may say, “Then why do you keep buying his books and supporting him?” Hah! I buy 'em USED! And I’ve learned to tune out the parts where he’s talking about himself. Cuts the reading time in half.
Yes!! His books are notoriously in the 50 cent range at used book stores. That’s where I get them too. The best mention of his near death experience is his current BTK book. Now apparantly he’s saying something mystical happened to his brain while he was out that allows him to see through the killer’s eyes. He’s so full of shit but he sure does have some interesting anecdotes.