Anyone want to talk about serial killers?

[TheDeeble]

You know it is, right? I was shocked to find out as an adult that one of my favorite actors played the character that haunted my dreams as a child.

Boo Radley hauned you dreams?

 

[PowerT83]

It's probably a good thing, but the media doesn't talk much about serial killers anymore. Hardly heard anything about the loon from Cleveland a couple years back or the Long Island serial killer that is still on the loose

 

[Il Principo]

Good topic, we have our own in the colonial parkway killer. Crazy theories out there.

If I throw a rock really, really hard I can hit the Colonial Parkway. Whoever that killer was, man did they hate lesbians.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

If I throw a rock really, really hard I can hit the Colonial Parkway. Whoever that killer was, man did they hate lesbians.

Unofficially, cia ops

 

[gsvol]

I saw a thing on A&E (before they went totally reality TV) about how they believe that the Son of Sam was a group working together and not Berkowitz by himself.

He was part of a satanic cult, there is little doubt that he did not act alone.

My family is riddled with serial killers. In fact a movie was recently made about one.... Burke and Hare

Why am I not surprised?

Is your avatar one of your serial killer relatives?

It's probably a good thing, but the media doesn't talk much about serial killers anymore. Hardly heard anything about the loon from Cleveland a couple years back or the Long Island serial killer that is still on the loose

Did they ever find the people previously connected to the amputated feet in shoes washed up on the shores in the Vancouver area?

The media probably should talk about it more, if for nothing else, to make people aware of what is going on.

Tonight's Leno show had some guy doing a parody of Valentine's day and he made a date via the internet with some nice looking young lady looking for a Valentine date.

Just how easy is it these days to lure someone into a stituation that might not be what they envisioned?

 

[KiffinKiller]

Weird Al is coming for you next gs. He will rejoice in song after the deed is done.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

Gs, that is Oe in my avy.

 

[orangestorm]

He was part of a satanic cult, there is little doubt that he did not act alone.

I would not be that surprised to learn that several of these guys did not act alone, had murders tied to them that did not commit, or confessed to murders that they did not commit. Police only care about closing cases not solving them.

I saw this one case were the police got this drifter to confess to several unsolved murders in the area. They would talk to him and ask him question about how he killed this person. He would say he shot them or something like that. The interrogator would tell him to stop lying. The drifter would then say he stabbed the victim. The police would then go very good and wrap the case up.

They found out that he confessed to murders that happened while he was in prison or in a different state.

 

[gsvol]

Gs, that is Oe in my avy.

He men wear pink! :good!:

Freaky though that they would give anyone like that a badge and a gun. hmy:

My apologies for mispeaking, the post about the guy testifying about Gayce was wrong, I was thinging of Jeffrey Dahmer.

ps; give me a hit on the 'extent of voting fraud' thread if you will, asap or anyone else.

 

[KiffinKiller]

it's creepy that you have connections to more than one serial killer.

 

[gsvol]

I would not be that surprised to learn that several of these guys did not act alone, had murders tied to them that did not commit, or confessed to murders that they did not commit. Police only care about closing cases not solving them.

I saw this one case were the police got this drifter to confess to several unsolved murders in the area. They would talk to him and ask him question about how he killed this person. He would say he shot them or something like that. The interrogator would tell him to stop lying. The drifter would then say he stabbed the victim. The police would then go very good and wrap the case up.

They found out that he confessed to murders that happened while he was in prison or in a different state.

Back in the early part of the last century it was fairly common for police to pick up some passed out drunk on skid row, convince him he had committed a crime, extract a confession and have him convicted, in order to keep the number of unsolved crimes down.

Lots of times the drunk would finally wake up in his prison cell and realize he hadn't done it after five or ten years, too late to change anything though.

Reminds me of one of Furry Lewis' regular old blues songs; "they give me fifteen years for forgery and I couldn't even write my name."

KiffinKiller
it's creepy that you have connections to more than one serial killer.

More like connections to their victims or intended victims.

I found it freaky also that I kept running into such people.

My main interested in the topic began in the early '70s when an acquaintence that many of my friends knew, a young woman, was murdered by the Tennessee River serial killer.

 

[TinaMae]

Ive studied serial killers since high school, always had intentions of goin into forensic psychology and studyin the minds of serial killers, try to understand their reasoning, learn what makes them tick. Never made it tho...the most fascinating cases are the unsolved ones The Zodiac, Jack the Ripper, and The Black Dahlia. Anybody have any theories on any of those?

 

[Volz4lif3]

"I'm not a Killa but don't push me"....

 

[gsvol]

Weird Al is coming for you next gs. He will rejoice in song after the deed is done.

Weird Al would commit suicide before he would try to harm me if we came face to face, I am that teririble.

Don't doubt that.

TinaMae
Ive studied serial killers since high school, always had intentions of goin into forensic psychology and studyin the minds of serial killers, try to understand their reasoning, learn what makes them tick. Never made it tho...the most fascinating cases are the unsolved ones The Zodiac, Jack the Ripper, and The Black Dahlia. Anybody have any theories on any of those?

There are a lot more unsolved cases than those although they are the most famous.

I think I may know the identity of the Zodiac killer but proving that is rather remote. (a man who was an FBI agent for many years, sufferred an assassination attack on his life which renderred him unable to pass the FBI physical, then went into private law practice [he was a gradutate of the UT school of law] and eventually was appointed to the federal bench and had known the possilbe perp for seventeen years, brought that up to me when I mentioned I suspected the subject as being the Tennessee River killer.) I did further offer that the suspect had been in the San Francisco area (from what he, himself had told me) at that time and that he had studied the appropriate subjects in college (basic geometry) that fit the pattern of some of the theories.

I think, from what I've read, that the real Jack the ripper was a well connected physitian and ended up in an insane asylum.

Who knows about the black dahlia but I'm convinced he had connections within the LA police department that covered for him.

What makes you intersted in the subject?

One of my best friends has a child who is now attending UT on a full scholaship pursuing forensic pathology.

 

[TinaMae]

Weird Al would commit suicide before he would try to harm me if we came face to face, I am that teririble.

Don't doubt that.



There are a lot more unsolved cases than those although they are the most famous.

I think I may know the identity of the Zodiac killer but proving that is rather remote. (a man who was an FBI agent for many years, sufferred an assassination attack on his life which renderred him unable to pass the FBI physical, then went into private law practice [he was a gradutate of the UT school of law] and eventually was appointed to the federal bench and had known the possilbe perp for seventeen years, brought that up to me when I mentioned I suspected the subject as being the Tennessee River killer.) I did further offer that the suspect had been in the San Francisco area (from what he, himself had told me) at that time and that he had studied the appropriate subjects in college (basic geometry) that fit the pattern of some of the theories.

I think, from what I've read, that the real Jack the ripper was a well connected physitian and ended up in an insane asylum.

Who knows about the black dahlia but I'm convinced he had connections within the LA police department that covered for him.

What makes you intersted in the subject?

One of my best friends has a child who is now attending UT on a full scholaship pursuing forensic pathology

There are so many theories and possibilities and its neat that u actually have a little inside information on infamous cases. I've been interested in the subject since I was a kid. What is different in them and normal people, how do their minds work, nature vs nurture, how do some people feel no remorse, basically just the question of what makes them different, psychologically speaking is what interests me, always has. How bout u?

 

[gsvol]

There are so many theories and possibilities and its neat that u actually have a little inside information on infamous cases. I've been interested in the subject since I was a kid. What is different in them and normal people, how do their minds work, nature vs nurture, how do some people feel no remorse, basically just the question of what makes them different, psychologically speaking is what interests me, always has. How bout u?

I've tried it, I can't do it.

When I try to explore the mind of that sort of pathology, at some point, I just can't abandon my own values for fear that I might become like them.

My thoughts on the subject are that they try to make up for their own perceived short commings by over reacting and then try to establish the mastery over some other person in some way or another.

I would say that probably 99% of them have been victimized previously, probably when they were a child in their formative years.

Even that doesn't expalin it all, there exists in some people the perception that they are above any civil rule and are ordain by some sort of authority to do as they wish, no matter what.

That's what bothers me most about our current president of the USA.

Thanks for your post on the topic.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

Anybody ever heard of Pee Wee Gaskins? I've heard a few wild stories about him.

 

[gsvol]

Anybody ever heard of Pee Wee Gaskins? I've heard a few wild stories about him.

That name rings a bell, was he the guy that killed the five yr old girl in west Tennessee??

How about telling us one of those wild stories?

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

That name rings a bell, was he the guy that killed the five yr old girl in west Tennessee??

How about telling us one of those wild stories?

I can't remember any of them right off. That has been about 10+ years ago, but I knew a couple of people that worked as guards at the Broad River Correctional Institution at the time he was incarcerated there. They would exchange funny/racist/scary stories about his antics or what he would do in prison. Got this copied and pasted from Wiki, though. It pretty much fits the image they created in my mind about the guy....

On September 2, 1982, Gaskins committed another murder, for which he earned the title of the "Meanest Man in America". While incarcerated in the high security block at the South Carolina Correctional Institution, Gaskins killed a death row inmate named Rudolph Tyner, who earned his sentence for killing an elderly couple named Bill and Myrtle Moon during a bungled armed robbery on the store they owned in the Burgess community.

Gaskins was hired to commit this murder by Tony Cimo, son of Myrtle Moon. Gaskins initially made several unsuccessful attempts to kill Tyner by lacing his food and drink with poison before he opted to use explosives to kill him. To accomplish this, Gaskins rigged a device similar to a portable radio in Tyner's death row cell and told Tyner this would allow them to communicate between cells.[12] When Tyner followed Gaskins' instructions to hold a speaker (laden with C-4 plastic explosive, unbeknownst to him) to his ear at an agreed time, Gaskins detonated the explosives in his cell and killed him.[11] Gaskins later said, "The last thing he [Tyner] heard was me laughing."

 

[gsvol]

Well I can't find it in my heart to have much sympathy for Tyner.

My Vol football game watching pal of over thirty years once worked in the local prison and tells me a story or so every once in a while.

He's a great practical joker and one time they had a problem with an inmate stealing people's food and so my pal litterally prepared a sh!t sandwich and left it in the fridge, that ended the stolen food problem.

The thief was madder than heck but there wasn't much he could say about it.