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Why are killers called by their full names?

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  • 22-09-2018 1:00pm
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    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    This an American phenomenon ,

    Lee Harvey Oswald, known as Lee Oswald before Nov 63


    John Wilkes Booth, as an actor he never used his middle name.


    John Wayne Gacy,


    James Earl Ray. Known as Jim Ray to his friends


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    nim1bdeh38l2cw
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    Deft Left Hand, known as Left Hand before the murders


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    Assetbacked
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    So they don’t ruin the names for other people who share the name?


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    Dakota Dan
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    Why do you. Use 3 names De Left Hand?


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    kal7
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    does it decrease the likelyhood of someone of same name being mistaken for being a killer.


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    Huntergonzo
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    For clear identification I suppose.

    I mean if you were a nice friendly person who worked as a clown and your name just happened to be John Gacy, you'd like to have that degree of separation in place.


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    kal7
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    just beaten to it by Assetbacked


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    frag420
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    I was just frAg until they found all the bodies...:cool:


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    kal7 wrote: »
    does it decrease the likelyhood of someone of same name being mistaken for being a killer.
    Never thought about that. This is the answer.

    Thank you,.


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    Franz Von Peppercorn
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    kal7 wrote: »
    does it decrease the likelyhood of someone of same name being mistaken for being a killer.

    Ah. Good point.


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    Dravokivich
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    My son prefers to be called for by his full name...


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Do any of you have funny middle names?

    I've a huge name , three middles, Patrick John Luke.


    I'm like a fcking Pope or something.


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    AllForIt
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    Respect !


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    Grayson
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    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    Ah. Good point.

    Also sounds better.

    But most of these guys used the full length name before the killings. Lee Harvey Oswald used his full name in interviews beforehand. And John Wilkes Booth used his as a stage name (he was an actor).
    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2011/01/why_do_so_many_assassins_have_three_names.html?via=gdpr-consent


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    Grayson
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Do any of you have funny middle names?

    I've a huge name , three middles, Patrick John Luke.


    I'm like a fcking Pope or something.

    I don't have a middle name.


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    Yamanoto
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    Fred Wiki Wiki Wild Wild West


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    Yer Da sells Avon
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    Jerry Lee Lewis' nickname was 'The Killer'.


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    looksee
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    It also creates a barrier of formality, reducing a person's name to just first and last, or shortening a forename suggests a degree of familiarity.


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Grayson wrote: »
    I don't have a middle name.
    How did that happen?


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    looksee
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    How did that happen?

    That's the whole point, it didn't.


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    Hector Bellend
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    This an American phenomenon ,

    Lee Harvey Oswald, known as Lee Oswald before Nov 63


    John Wilkes Booth, as an actor he never used his middle name.


    John Wayne Gacy,


    James Earl Ray. Known as Jim Ray to his friends

    What about Ted Bundy, Ed Kemper Jeffrey Dahmer


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    Renegade Mechanic
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    This an American phenomenon ,

    Lee Harvey Oswald, known as Lee Oswald before Nov 63


    John Wilkes Booth, as an actor he never used his middle name.


    John Wayne Gacy,


    James Earl Ray. Known as Jim Ray to his friends

    I generally find people are called by their full name when they really **** up. :o


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    Yer Da sells Avon
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    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    I generally find people are called by their full name when they really **** up. :o

    Especially by their mothers...

    "Lee Harvey Oswald, what on earth have you done now?"


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    Assetbacked
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    kal7 wrote: »
    just beaten to it by Assetbacked

    I can’t hear you down there.


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    Assetbacked
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    kal7 wrote: »
    just beaten to it by Assetbacked

    I can’t hear you down there.


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    PowerToWait
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    This an American phenomenon


    If it is American we MUST snort with derision and say clever, original things, like 'murica.


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