Discussion on Serial Killers, Spree Killers, Mass Killers, And single event killers. (1 Viewer)

To start. I have always found Serial Killers fascinating. What makes them do what they do?. I know I am not the only one. This is the place to talk about it. I'll start. Who do you find the most fascinating and why?.

 

[Mel70]

Ten years for something like that is disgusting. I see no excuse for it.

He served 14 yrs of a 25 yr sentence. Again as always. Let him out to kill again.

 

[Mel70]

This airs tonight.

Woman Who Survived Attack by 'Dating Game Killer' at Age 8 Says: 'I Didn't Know to Fear People'

Second grader Tali Shapiro was walking to school in 1969 when she accepted a ride from Rodney Alcala

people.com

Will die on Death Row of natural causes. That's not Death Row!

 

[GrandmaBear]

I would be too. He preyed on older people. Couples. Men. Women. Would abduct kids as a solitary crime. Molest them and release them. He didn't kill any of the children. Didn't matter their race, Age. He was all over L.A. He would steal cars. So always on the move. Used guns, Knives, ligature, Manual strangulation, Objects to beat, His shoe. No one else had that kind of MO.

He sounds more like he had no real MO--or at least not a routine one...

 

[GrandmaBear]

Will die on Death Row of natural causes. That's not Death Row!

Yeah, if that is not a strange headline...

 

[Mel70]

He sounds more like he had no real MO--or at least not a routine one...

That was the problem. But his shoe print was important. They could link it to the crime scenes. But not to him. The guns used were linked to crime scenes. But not to who. 2 different guns. Survivors gave composites of him. Always the same. He was killing every few days in 1985. Especially that summer. Sometimes twice in a night.

 

[Mel70]

Yeah, if that is not a strange headline...

He's 77 now.

 

[GrandmaBear]

That was the problem. But his shoe print was important. They could link it to the crime scenes. But not to him. The guns used were linked to crime scenes. But not to who. 2 different guns. Survivors gave composites of him. Always the same. He was killing every few days in 1985. Especially that summer. Sometimes twice in a night.

You are very well read on this subject. I used to be pretty up on the more well known ones but as time goes on I forget some details about those as well.

 

[GrandmaBear]

He's 77 now.

Well at least they have not let him out like some others. I guess that's all we can hope for these days...

 

[Mel70]

Well at least they have not let him out like some others. I guess that's all we can hope for these days...

His conviction was overturned twice on one case and finally sentenced to death in 2010 for that murder.

 

[Mel70]

Interesting note. He was the winning Bachelor on "The Dating Game". But the woman said he was too pushy and creepy and did not go out with him.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Interesting note. He was the winning Bachelor on "The Dating Game". But the woman said he was too pushy and creepy and did not go out with him.

Good instinct. Thank goodness for her.

 

[Mel70]

I remember seeing on a documentary about him about what "Talia Shapiro" went through.

 

[Kimster]

If I read this one before, I don't recall. Terrible. It looked old at first based on the black and white pictures but it is in more recent times. They can take the "angel" part of the headline down as far as I am concerned.

'Angel of Death': After a Serial Killer Targeted Veterans at Hospital, Families Ask 'Why?'

Nursing assistant Reta Mays killed patients with insulin injections at a VA hospital in Clarksburg, W. Va.

people.com

I saw a documentary about this one. Talk about creepy!

 

[Kimster]

You are very well read on this subject. I used to be pretty up on the more well known ones but as time goes on I forget some details about those as well.

Mel Has a gift of recall. Over time, I forget the details of them too.

 

[Kimster]

Interesting note. He was the winning Bachelor on "The Dating Game". But the woman said he was too pushy and creepy and did not go out with him.

Back in the old days of the dating game, they always had a chaperone.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Back in the old days of the dating game, they always had a chaperone.

The prize was a trip with each other or cash. Chuck Barris claims to have been an agent for the CIA. I don't know if he was, but doubt it. However, I distinctly remember this. The trips were always to somewhere really nice. The Bahamas, Hawaii, Paris etc.. There was one show where the trip was to a city in Czechoslovakia. I was just stunned that they would consider that a romantic trip. As I understand it, Barris often accompanied them as the chaperon. So maybe he was a CIA assassin.

 

[Mel70]

The prize was a trip with each other or cash. Chuck Barris claims to have been an agent for the CIA. I don't know if he was, but doubt it. However, I distinctly remember this. The trips were always to somewhere really nice. The Bahamas, Hawaii, Paris etc.. There was one show where the trip was to a city in Czechoslovakia. I was just stunned that they would consider that a romantic trip. As I understand it, Barris often accompanied them as the chaperon. So maybe he was a CIA assassin.

I saw the movie that was made about that. He spoke a little at the end. He also had a huge cocaine problem.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I saw a documentary about this one. Talk about creepy!

I hope I catch that at some point or maybe I don't. It sounds creepy. The article states no clear motive that they found... Certainly not an angel of mercy, maybe joy in power or control of someone's fate... Definitely disturbing... Hard to understand what is in the head of someone who does these things, I guess we should be happy we can't understand it...

 

[GrandmaBear]

Mel Has a gift of recall. Over time, I forget the details of them too.

She does. She has great recall on these cases.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Back in the old days of the dating game, they always had a chaperone.

Thank goodness. On the other hand, I think there were chaperones on the Natalee and high school graduates trip to Aruba too... Just sayin'...