Was reading about this. Decent looking person in the picture I saw. Who would have thought what lies beneath? I was talking with my wife about that. When you watch these shows, you sit there and try to picture what this "monster" looks like. It ends up that they look.................human.
As a father of a murdered daughter that had three children of her own, you are certainly right. One murder is too many. It is horrible to see a life ended much too early by accident or even natural causes. It is so much worse to see a life prematurely ended at the hands of a POS that has no value in a civilized society. I know my thoughts on the subject are clouded by my personal experiences, but there is a high percentage of murders that are committed by criminals that have never been anything more than cancers to our society. I have noticed that more and more murders are committed by lifetime criminals that starts with smaller crimes and the crimes committed becomes more severe until it escalates to murder. In many of these cold cases that are being solved, the murderers were well known to law enforcement for their other crimes during the time when the murders were committed. It brings up serious questions with the main question being “ what punishment for these lesser crimes would have prevented the escalation and the severity of the crimes by these lifelong criminals?”. One thing is for certain, our current system needs an overhaul.
The 70’s, 80’s and early 90’s are considered the golden age for serial killers. Most of serial killers that have become well known to the public was active during these years. Sadly, some of the killers have a cult-like following and they are viewed as being rock stars by their twisted admirers. The various media sources have contributed entirely too much towards making monsters into celebrities. The number of serial killers has declined since their “ golden age”, but knowing that there are 25+ active serial killers in the country is entirely too many.
I honestly think he wanted to get caught. I think he craved the attention and in some ways wanted to be exposed. BTK was proud of his work and he wanted credit for the killings in some twisted way.The BTK killer cracks me up how he was caught.
BTK "Hey cops, if I send you a disk, can you trace it back to me?"
Cops "Nope. Sorry we don't have the technology!"
BTK "Oh ok! Cool!"
BTK *send disk
Cops *dig deep into disk. Find name
Cops *start following BTK. Find way to get DNA
Cops *arrest BTK
BTK "but how?"
I mean, I'm glad the idiot messed up, but just wow.
Kemper is the one serial killer that I could see myself having a conversation with. The guy is very intelligent and he seems kind of likable until he mentions his murders. He had enough self-awareness about his murders to know that he needed to be stopped, which is kind of spooky. He is the only one of the well known serial killers to turn himself in. With his intelligence, he could have probably continued killing and evading law enforcement for years.
It's definitely not out of the realm of possibility. He sure made it easy. He made more mistakes in the 1 month leading up to his capture than he had in the like 30-ish years he was out there doing his crimes.
Fantastic show!! Sad they aren't making anymore seasons.
I think BTK was giddy with anticipation when he was finally arrested. I have watched several videos of him confessing to law enforcement officers and he acted like a child that wanted to tell a secret that he has been keeping to himself. His excitement was very obvious, especially during the first few interviews. The anticipation of finally describing each murder and every little detail about his attacks caused him to become sexually excited . Seeing him take so much pleasure from the mere mention of each murder and the sickening details made me uncomfortable as hell. It was absolutely insane to watch Dennis Rader go from being a highly respected church leader to being an evil monster within a few seconds of an interview.
I don’t think your view has much to do with politics. Your view on this monster has more to do with you being a decent human being that recognizes evil and wants to eliminate the threat from society. Any crime that involves the abuse of a child shows the very worst of humanity. I have zero tolerance for crimes committed against children and I would have no problem being the executioner that carries out the punishment for those type of criminals.
totally agree. you'll have to wait in line behind me and wait for my trigger finger to get tired.
