The Grim sleeper

Specialun

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_Sleeper

Not heard about this until i just saw the film documentary on sky.

They reckon this guy could have killed over 100 women over a 30 year timescale, most were all either hooker.s or drug addicts

He goes on trial in few weeks

Do these kind of stories/cases ever fascinate you

Junkyard Tom

Specialun wrote: »

Do these kind of stories/cases ever fascinate you

Nope.

Mr_Muffin

Morale of the story - don't become a hooker or drug addict.

NachoBusiness

The door was open and the wind appeared
The candles blew then disappeared
The curtains flew then he appeared
Saying don't be afraid, come on baby
And she had no fear and she ran to him
Then they started to fly
They looked backward and said goodbye
She had become like they are
She had taken his hand
She had become like they are
Come on baby don't fear the Sleeper.

Samaris

Yeah, I do find them interesting, although I tend to feel rather bad about it! Mostly, the question is 'why?' What does drive a person who is usually described as 'seemed so normal' or 'quiet, but a nice guy' to kill in an entirely deliberate and premeditated fashion? Is it an illness? Is it some kink in the mind, some chemical imbalance that makes someone more inclined to kill? Or is it something more akin to just 'evil'? Why is it generally males, and particularly often white males? (This case not included, the suspect is black. There have also been some quite well-known female serial killers).

Then again, in other ways, it seems like a final evil is done by forever linking the names of the victims to the murderer. They are often forgotten as people and end up in history as just names, supporting figures to the notoriety of the killer.

Samaris

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

Morale of the story - don't become a hooker or drug addict.

There's always one Mary Bennett.

Moral of the story - the vulnerable are more likely to be killed because society will imply that it was their own fault. What does it matter, it could never happen to ME or MY daughter, because we're respectable people.

Sheesh.

On another note, sorry for double post, the phone doesn't cope well with editing.

The Backwards Man

Yeah, it is scarily fascinating. You think to yourself, Christ, these people are monsters. Then you think to yourself, they are humans not that different in the grand scale of things to you and me, whatever is in them could be in all of us. *shudder*

Junkyard Tom

Samaris wrote: »

Moral of the story - the vulnerable are more likely to be killed because society will imply that it was their own fault.

Yep and a serial killer who chooses his victims from vulnerable groups is more likely to accumulate kills before being apprehended because fewer people will miss them and they are of lesser value to society.

DEFTLEFTHAND

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Yeah, it is scarily fascinating. You think to yourself, Christ, these people are monsters. Then you think to yourself, they are humans not that different in the grand scale of things to you and me, whatever is in them could be in all of us. *shudder*

Often times there seems to be a sexual aspect to the crimes, they achieve sexual gratification through killing and dismembering their victims. So maybe it's a sort of dark deep seeded perversion which separates them from the average person.

corner of hells

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Often times there seems to be a sexual aspect to the crimes, they achieve sexual gratification through killing and dismembering their victims. So maybe it's a sort of dark deep seeded perversion which separates them from the average person.

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