This question is spurred by a conversation I overheard my daughter having with a friend of hers. She told her friend this, and the reply was, "that's creepy." I don't think so, but it prompted this thread. So maybe it is.
I have always been fascinated with Serial Killers or Sociopaths. I cannot explain why, I just am. It started for me in elementary school when I read a book about unsolved mysteries. One of the stories was Lizzie Borden and another was Jack the Ripper.
That led me into studying stuff like Ed Gein, Charles Manson, Al Capone, the Zodiac killer, the Night Stalker, the Black Dahlia murder, Jeffrey Dahmer, the Green River killer, BTK, Ted Bundy and countless others.
I'm especially fascinated when the killers leave clues as if they want you to try and catch them. The Zodiac, BTK, and Jack the Ripper in particular. I read one time where the Ripper left a poem inside the heart cavity of one of his victims. It said.
I'm not a ghoul
I'm not a stripper
Just your friendly neighborhood
Jack the Ripper
I can't say I'm obsessed with them, but they do fascinate me and I often can't wait to read about them. My wife and kids shudder when they see a book on my desk sometimes.
No one fascinates me more than Manson. I would never write to any of these monsters the way some idiots do, but if someone told me I could talk to Charlie, I probably would. I think because I've seen so many interviews with the guy where he talks in circles and refuses to be pinned down. Part of me thinks I could make him very nervous and I would like to see that in his eyes for some reason.
