So far I’ve really disliked this Golden State Killer documentary. The forced ‘poignant’ narration of McNamara and her shitty writing style just rubs me the wrong way. This documentary is about her and it shouldn’t be.
I know why, I just was hoping to actually be informed on the killer (and events) and not have every episode be 75% McNamara and 25% GSK
Definitely watching that. The latest Time Suck podcast was on Robert Chase The Vampire of Sacramento. He’s up there with Dahmer to me.
A Richard Ramirez docuseries is coming to Netflix next month on the 13th. I thought this guy’s background story and murder spree was one of the most interesting. https://collider.com/night-stalker-trailer-netflix-documentary-series/ Sidenote - I tried to watch the new Ripper docuseries on Netflix and couldn’t make it past episode 1, so boring.
this might sound horrible but lack of new SK probably has something to do with it. We know most of what there is to know about the bigger well known SKs.
No posts about the Zodiac 350 Cypher getting solved last week? They realized Zodiac made a mistake midway through and switched a character accidentally which probably is why it was so difficult to solve.
Thread on cipher https://www.the-mainboard.com/index.php?threads/zodiac-killer-340-cipher-solved.181207/
Yeah technology has far surpassed the means of a serial killer. Mass murderers are the new installation.
Nothing crazy - just the same kind of stuff about taunting the police and how he's creating his army of slaves for "paradice." Says "I'm not afraid of the gas chamber" and how he didn't call into the morning show (which everyone knew). https://www.zodiacciphers.com/340-cipher.html
Ive found him to be one of the most terrifying serial killers the last fifty years. Guy has evil written all over his face.
Actually think that those who would become serial killers have way more outlets with the internet. So much is sexual, Internet can provide quite a bit of outlet. or they are caught and incarcerated for other stuff before they can really get going John Douglas hypothesized that BTK’s job s as a compliance officer allowed him to get his power and control rocks off during his pause in killing. I think the same might be true with Internet porn and placed like 4chan/TMB
I don’t think that. Porn has been readily available for a long time. I don’t think guys being able to look up deviant shit keeps people from killing. I just think like soulfly said technological advances have made it more difficult for them to get away with shit.
Serial killers are nearly, if not already, an extinct entity. Cell phones, personal security cameras, DNA testing, family members submitting DNA samples to gain an understanding of their lineage, etc. have ensured this. Dark web only serves to stoke the egos of mass murderers as they post their manifestos or whatever. Child porn and the like is an entirely different ballgame.
I too started The Ripper last night and found the first episode to be extremely slow and fairly boring. I may keep going but we're not off to a good start.
Ramirez is probably the worst gold star content from LPOTL that I could get through I still can’t do Albert Fish, dude should have been drawn and quartered, but he probably would have like it
Maybe. Or maybe all we really know about serial killers was learned from the dumb ones we were able to catch. Maybe there are a lot out there who are smart enough to cover their tracks and not draw attention to themselves.
Just finished it and it’s mostly about how the investigation was fucked so bad that it allowed him to kill a lot more than he should have. I won’t go into it to much because it would spoil the show if you’re going to finish it. It’s only 4 episodes.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...ial-killers-more-common-than-we-think/596647/ Wow. Homicide clearance rate today is 60%. Vs 90% 60 years ago definitely lots of actives out there. Could be as many as 3000 active serial killers
oh my gf told me about this the other day and I totally forgot to go back and look it up for myself. So that’s why it was so difficult to decipher? Chaos
The amount of incarcerated people now is estimated by the innocence project to be 20k (and they believe this is the absolute floor, probably higher to much higher). Which is 1% (some say it could be 2-3%) That’s with all these huge advances in science and techniques to put people behind bars. 60 years ago? I wouldn’t doubt the wrongfully convicted ones could be 5% or higher. I can’t imagine being one of the ones that spent their life on death row (or even a lifetime in prison) absolutely knowing you got fucked.
I’m curious how much of that figure is a result of being able to railroad a suspect with shoddy evidence in the past. Edit: late on the thought process.
This is what I buy and the theory I've seen most widely supported that serial killers of the past are now mass shooters. With the advent of camera phones and dna they manifest themselves now as one offs where they kill as many people as possible at one time
I have done zero studying on this topic except a dabbling in Criminal Minds, but I’m not sure that psychology transfers into mass murder. One is about process, the other is basically adrenaline junkie.
my thoughts exactly. One seems about the process and ritual of killing whereas the other seems like just about the. killing. If that makes sense.
Black man never gets the credit he deserves. Most prolific serial killer in the US and he gets no love. Where is his movie? Where is his Netflix special? His HBO show ? His book? Racism is a ugly color.
“Little lived a nomadic lifestyle and moved around a lot, and he targeted women who were involved in prostitution or drugs, the FBI has said. He was a former boxer who punched and strangled most of his victims, whose deaths were often ruled as overdoses or other causes, according to the FBI.”
It’s been overshadowed by the golden state killer stuff but I saw a documentary a year or two ago about a dude who they suspect killed over 2 dozen women but police never really even looked for him or connected the killings bc he exclusively preyed on black prostitutes in the hood in LA. He was able to torture and kill dozens of women and just drop their bodies off in the open and the police just shrugged it off because of the status of the victims and where their bodies were found. Sad shit
That’s essentially what happened with Samuel Little, the Green River killer, etc. It’s like certain people’s lives count as like 1/5 of a normal life and those monsters just racked up insane killing numbers because nobody really cared
That's pretty much my understanding of why so many serial killers targeted prostitutes because the cops didn't really give a shit about investigating their deaths
They’re the perfect targets. You don’t have to stalk them or hunt them down, you can easily get them to come to you. They’re less likely to have family come looking for them or raise a fuss with law enforcement. There’s no community pressure to solve their cases. I’m sure there’s some trucker out there we’ll never hear about who has stacked a couple hundred or more bodies killing lot lizards.
Finally got around to watching the 20/20 on The Dating Game killer. Strangely a pedo and killed young adult women too. I thought they usually stuck to a type or whatever.
Watched the entire Night Stalker doc today. To the people of 80s Los Angeles, I would like to retroactively tell you to LOCK YOUR FUCKING DOORS AND WINDOWS. Also, fuck you, Diane Feinstein....and how you gonna kill a guy named Peter Pan?
I don’t think we ever left our doors unlocked. 80s in LA weren’t fucking Mayberry. Watching it and seeing that some left their doors unlocked had me WTFing them.