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Writer's Block: True Crime
Jan. 15th, 2009 10:41 am[Error: unknown template qotd]Reading the answers, I had no idea so many people believe Kurt Cobain was murdered. Apparently Courtney Hole is a brilliant master criminal. Who knew? And the CIA secretly had Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison killed for their knowledge of the Agent Orange experiments conducted on American troops in Vietnam. And Paul McCartney was run over by a truck in the mid 1960's and has been portrayed by a sophisticated android ever since.
Oh there was a question, wasn't there? Being a true crime nut, I'll go with all the other true crime nuts who've been answering and say the Whitechappel Murders, a.k.a. Jack the Ripper. He was the first murderer I ever heard of thanks to me seeing the movie Time After Time on HBO one afternoon as a kid and he's stuck in my imagination ever since. Apparently he's stuck in a lot of other people's imaginations too. If every fictional portrayal of and conspiracy theory about Jack the Ripper were combined you would get a time-travelling cyborg vampire orangutan alien immortal Freemason who may or may not be an illegitmate heir to the British throne.
All the sensationalism can't diminish the reality of the case though. Several women who lived harsh lives in a harsh place died horrible, frightening deaths and the person who did it got away with it. Think the reason Jack the Ripper continues to fascinate people so much is that he wasn't just a serial killer, but an entire society seen in microcosm.
Growing up down the road from Wichita KS. I feel like I should be more interested in the BTK killings but I'm not. The killer, Dennis Rader, is certainly interesting from a psychological standpoint though.
Oh there was a question, wasn't there? Being a true crime nut, I'll go with all the other true crime nuts who've been answering and say the Whitechappel Murders, a.k.a. Jack the Ripper. He was the first murderer I ever heard of thanks to me seeing the movie Time After Time on HBO one afternoon as a kid and he's stuck in my imagination ever since. Apparently he's stuck in a lot of other people's imaginations too. If every fictional portrayal of and conspiracy theory about Jack the Ripper were combined you would get a time-travelling cyborg vampire orangutan alien immortal Freemason who may or may not be an illegitmate heir to the British throne.
All the sensationalism can't diminish the reality of the case though. Several women who lived harsh lives in a harsh place died horrible, frightening deaths and the person who did it got away with it. Think the reason Jack the Ripper continues to fascinate people so much is that he wasn't just a serial killer, but an entire society seen in microcosm.
Growing up down the road from Wichita KS. I feel like I should be more interested in the BTK killings but I'm not. The killer, Dennis Rader, is certainly interesting from a psychological standpoint though.
