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Who's your favourite serial killer?

  • 01-01-2012 01:11PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 356 ✭✭


    Many people look up to serial killers because they live their lives free from restraint, with the sole aim of fulfilling their desires. Thanks to d'interweb there are a lot more of them than there used to be, so I think it might be nice to sit down and discuss which of these characters is your favourite? I happen 2 b an Aileen Wuornos man.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    hoorsmelt wrote: »
    Many people look up to serial killers because they live their lives free from restraint, with the sole aim of fulfilling their desires. Thanks to d'interweb there are a lot more of them than there used to be, so I think it might be nice to sit down and discuss which of these characters is your favourite? I happen 2 b an Aileen Wuornos man.

    None, you sick individual. Next you'll be marrying a death row inmate...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    hoorsmelt wrote: »
    Many people look up to serial killers because they live their lives free from restraint, with the sole aim of fulfilling their desires. Thanks to d'interweb there are a lot more of them than there used to be, so I think it might be nice to sit down and discuss which of these characters is your favourite? I happen 2 b an Aileen Wuornos man.
    So you're blaming the internet for a rise in the amount of serial killers?

    Any links to figures or the like?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    Possibly Fred West - For his virility, west country earthiness and can-do attitude to DIY bits and bobs.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Snap, Crackle and Pop.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,191 ✭✭✭✭Shanotheslayer


    Dexter


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    I don't like any serial killers, but I do love the song John Wayne Gacy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Gay Byrne.



    Goodnight sweet prince.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,036 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Me.

    Still going strong!
    :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,092 ✭✭✭Le King


    Not a serial killer but those 3 chaps in the Ukraine should of been hung for what they did. There was a copycat murder in Russia after it too. Some people are just fcuking sick.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    Larry Murphy


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 356 ✭✭hoorsmelt


    Le King wrote: »
    Not a serial killer but those 3 chaps in the Ukraine should of been hung for what they did. There was a copycat murder in Russia after it too. Some people are just fcuking sick.
    They were serial killers - killed 21 according to their Wiki


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,833 ✭✭✭phill106


    Me.




    Or do they have to be known about first?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭johndoe99


    The Zodiac Killer


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    I don't like any serial killers, but I do love the song John Wayne Gacy.

    Horrible guy, unsettling song.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭marketty


    I don't admire him (not sure what you're getting at?) but for pure couldn't-make-it-up evil, read the confession Albert Fish made to one of his victims mothers. Makes Hannibal Lecter look like a wimp. Fact is often stranger and scarier than fiction.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭Owryan


    RTE they been killing us off for years, in plain sight and without any remorse


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭Bonavox


    I'm an old school Ted Bundy fan myself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    Ted Bundy... Legend!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭MyKeyG


    Charlie Manson. OK he didn't actually kill directly but he was convicted under joint-responsibility ruling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    Dr. Harold Shipman, who had a lovely bedside manner and, a rare enough thing nowadays, did house calls.:D

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭Norma_Desmond


    pdbhp wrote: »
    Ted Bundy... Legend!


    I was born the day Ted Bundy met the electric chair. My sister even jokes every year on my birthday, oh it's Ted's anniversary today!!
    But I wouldn't be saying he was a legend, he was a sick, twisted and evil person.
    The zodiac killings were very interesting though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Ellis Dee wrote: »
    Dr. Harold Shipman, who had a lovely bedside manner and, a rare enough thing nowadays, did house calls.:D

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman


    They had made a movie about him.

    The Old Dear Hunter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭The_Thing


    Mine would be Andrei Chikatilo

    But with regards to Ted Bundy and The Green River Killer I read this a few years ago, a great book - The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    I was born the day Ted Bundy met the electric chair. My sister even jokes every year on my birthday, oh it's Ted's anniversary today!!
    But I wouldn't be saying he was a legend, he was a sick, twisted and evil person.
    The zodiac killings were very interesting though.

    Do you believe in reincarnation?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Whoever kills The Thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭up for anything


    hoorsmelt wrote: »
    Many people look up to serial killers because they live their lives free from restraint, with the sole aim of fulfilling their desires. Thanks to d'interweb there are a lot more of them than there used to be, so I think it might be nice to sit down and discuss which of these characters is your favourite? I happen 2 b an Aileen Wuornos man.

    You are a weirdo (you remind me of Mr Brainly, a deranged poster from another board). Who are these many people who look up to serial killers because they live their lives free from restraint with the sole aim of fulling their desires? :confused: I would imagine only someone with the same character traits or lack of them would admire serial killers. What is there to admire about people who inflict such fear, terror, physical and mental pain on innocent people maybe for a few short seconds or over a period of days, weeks or months? Do explain.

    Most of us hope never to meet or have any one that we care about meet with one of these psychopathic individuals.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭Norma_Desmond


    juan.kerr wrote: »
    Do you believe in reincarnation?

    That's what my sister says too!!! But thankfully I am a lovely person and have no murderous urges (yet anyway!!!)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    Ted Bundy. He's just an interesting character. Led a complete, perfect (up to a point) double life. Very charming, intelligent and articulate, but very, very ill. He must be a psychiatrist's dream. His last interview before he was executed is worth watching, it's on Youtube.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    I used to have something of an obsession with the subject of serial killers. They are abhorrent, of course, but they are also fascinating. If you study any field, the norm is rarely as interesting as the outliers. When the subject is social behaviour, serial killers are about as abnormal as it gets.

    One of the nuttier ones I've come across (not literally) is the case of H. H. Holmes It reads like fiction, from his purpose built murder castle to the profits he made from selling his victim's skeletons etc to medical schools (Holmes was himself a doctor). His murders appeared to be indiscriminate: men, women and children disappeared into his dungeon. He confessed to something like 30 murders, but may have killed as many as 200.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,218 ✭✭✭rednik


    Louis Walsh.


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