I’ve never heard of this, and after reading the Wiki, all I got to say is
GOD DAMN! 
We’ve a adult humour magazine in the UK called Viz and it did do a spectacularly sickly funny advert a few years after this.
"Fred Wests guide to Feng Sui -
‘If I’d read this, I’d never have blocked all the drains’ - Dennis Nielson"
Seen it! Loved it! Wish I had a subscription!
Also of note, McNulty from The Wire played Fred West in a drama called Appropriate Adult.
The previously mentioned Dennis Nilsen (which I mispelled before), a serial killer of gay men in London who disposed of their bodies down the toilet sort of like Dahmer, was played in a drama by Dr Who/Kilgrave (David Tennant) i as well. Tennant was the spitting image of him too, from his wiki picture.
And I do have a subscription!
Another case that I find fascinating is the case of Sharon Lopatka, which was considered at one time to be a case of consensual homicide. It also inspired the Maria Bello film “Downloading Nancy.”
The Fred and Rosemary West story was also “done” on the Scott and Bailey TV show. Nicola Walker played an adult daughter severely psychologically damaged by her parents.
Mentioned already: DB Cooper and the Springfield Three
My picks: Alvin Ridley Alvin Ridley: Hide Your Love Away - Forensic Files Now
and the Chicago Tylenol Murders https://allthatsinteresting.com/tylenol-murders
I’m also interested in the DC Sniper(s) story.
I don’t think Alvin Ridley killed his wife.
It seemed for a while like Long Island (just Nassau and Suffolk counties - leaving out Queens and Brooklyn and Berkowitz to NYC) had more than a fair share of weird murder-type crimes. Likely just a high population near a major media place and sensationalists like Maury Povich and Bill O’Reilly (prior to Fox).
So along the lines of Berkowitz, two serial killers. I don’t think serial killers (at least once caught) are all that fascinating yet this guy Joel Rifkin was caught after leading police pulling him over for no license plate on a 20 minute chase, crashed and was found with a body of one of his victims.
ISTR he was both initially suspected of, then perhaps helped police in finding/profiling the guy behind the Gilgo Beach serial killings
Joel Rifkin was WAAAAAAY before the Gilgo Beach killings.
I’ve always interpreted that as meaning not to exceed 500 million, after some devastating event had taken it lower.
I agree that this is probably what the monument’s creator had in mind.
A documentary about it, “Dark Clouds over Elberton”, is on YouTube and I tried to watch it, but switched it off because it was just plain old extremely boring.
He also advocated selective healthcare, so that the undeserving poor and inferior would not be kept alive unnecessarily, so I agree that the destruction of the Guidestones is no great loss.
Me? I feel that the reason nobody has been charged in the Georgia Guidestones’ destruction is because nobody really cares. They were a novelty, and that’s pretty much the end of it.
Maybe they were a novelty, but an interesting landmark in the heart of the Bible Belt that spawned controversy. Nearby Elberton has many of its buildings constructed of granite, since it’s a common mineral in that area, and I always thought that town could survive the Apocalypse. That myth is literally shattered.
If somebody had access to that degree of explosive material, I would think nearby businesses and residences would be concerned for their own safety. If somebody had been there and died from the explosion, the manhunt would have been more intense.
I’ve been reading these and there are so many I’m familiar with and they fascinate me. There are two others that I wonder about from time to time. The first is the case of Richard Petrone and Danielle Imbo. They are/were a couple in their 30s casually dating. On February 19, 2005, they met another couple for drinks at a bar on South Street in Philly. They left the bar around 11:45. The 2 of them along with his truck have never been seen again. He left behind a teenage daughter, and she a toddler both from previous relationships. There’s been no activity on their phones or credit cards. In 2022 a recovery team from Oregon joined the search, but nothing has turned up.
The other case, and this has been in the news recently, is that of Ellen Greenberg a young teacher from Philadelphia. She died as a result of 20 stab wounds. The coroner originally called it a homicide, but after meeting with police changed his decision to a suicide. 10 of the wounds were on her back & neck. She also had signs of bruises healing over her body. Her fiancé found her body after breaking down the door of the apartment. Her parents have been in a legal battle to have the cause of death changed to homicide. After much delay, their request has been granted.
Just learned about an interesting one - the tragic case of Willie Suttle.
In 1997, a severed human hand was found on the banks of the Manatee River in Florida. It was initially assumed that the owner had been the victim of an alligator attack, but after months of painstaking research, police were able to identify it as belonging to a 70-year-old retiree who had died of natural causes and had been buried some five months before his hand turned up. Police had him exhumed, and opened the casket to find him with his hand missing, his internal organs removed and piled at his feet, and his chest cavity stuffed with voodoo dolls. The director of the funeral home that had prepared him for burial confessed to desecrating the body in a ritual to put a curse on her competitors and was convicted, but the conviction was later overturned when it came out that police had falsely promised her immunity if she confessed.
The West Memphis Three case is pretty fascinating and one we spent a lot of time on in my American Culture course I took as an undergraduate. The West Memphis police department were neither equipped nor had the experience to handle a murder investigation of this magnitude. The Arkansas State police offered it’s assistance but it was refused. There was some bad blood between the two organizations as the state police had investigated the WMPD for theft from a drug task force. The WMPD didn’t properly secure the crime scene, didn’t take proper notes, didn’t follow the proper procedure for handling bodies which may have resulted in losing evidence, and they didn’t even bag evidence as they should have.
During the trial, the “experts” used by the prosecution were either incompetent or just outright fraudulent. Their PhD occult expert had meaningless credentials and even his degree came from a diploma mill. The forensic expert made some errors that were borderline gross misconduct including mistaking scavenging marks from animals as precise wounds caused by a sharp knife or scalpel. He also found evidence of sexual abuse which was just something that happens naturally when we die. (I don’t want to get too graphic.)
From beginning to end, it was just one bad botch after another.
Yeah, I remember reading that case. Once was enough.