By Steve Huff
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"On Sunday June the 3 1928 I called on you at 406 W 15 St. Brought you pot cheese strawberries. We had lunch. Grace sat in my lap and kissed me. I made up my mind to eat her" Cannibal child killer Albert Fish, in an anonymous letter sent to the mother of victim Grace Budd.
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| Albert Fish |
"I LIKE KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH FUN IT IS MORE FUN THAN KILLING WILD GAME IN THE FORREST BECAUSE MAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUE ANIMAL OF ALL" A portion of the enciphered message sent by the mysterious Zodiac Killer to San Francisco newspapers in 1969. Spelling errors were in the original cipher solution.
"Society can be thankful that there are ways for people like me to relieve myself at time by day dreams of some victims being torture and being mine" Bind, Torture, Kill (BTK) Strangler Dennis Rader, in a letter left for a Wichita, KS journalist to find in a library book in October, 1974.
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| Dennis Rader |
"I am scared, alone, and confused, and my reaction is to strike out toward the perceived source of my misery, society. My intent is to harm society as much as I can, then die" Joseph Edward Duncan III, writing in his weblog, Blogging the Fifth Nail, on May 11th, 2005. Brenda Groene, Mark McKenzie, and Slade Groene were bludgeoned to death at Groene's Coeur d'Alene-area home 5 days later, Dylan and Shasta Groene kidnapped.
"And tomorrow, when you're watching your little September 11th shows and crying and hating the terrorists like a good little American sheep, remember what Adolf Hitler said: 'The death of one is a tragedy. The death of millions is just a statistic.' For ultimately, this is how the victims of the September 11th attacks will be remembered, as just a statistic. A mere number, on the page of a history book, scribbled on by a bored child. All the loved ones lost in this attack will be reduced to merely this. And I will laugh" Kevin Ray Underwood, writing in his weblog, futureworldruler.blogspot.com. The quote is from the first entry Underwood apparently made in that weblog, on September 11, 2002.
When reading the writings of twisted and psychopathic minds, hindsight seems less like simple 20/20 and more like a microscopic look at an ebola virus in the lab. In his very first blog entry Underwood attacked the psyche of the general public, perhaps knowing at the time that few people were reading his writing at that point. Underwood's words seemed the very definition of an antisocial statement. In this respect, his statement about remembering September 11th, 2001 seemed to fall neatly in line with past statements by killers. His writing seems to reflect not just a cynical contempt for the widespread grief that gripped the nation in the wake of those brutal attacks, but also a deeper and more depraved understanding that in the American culture of today, the death of a single child, carefully planned and cruelly executed, can exact great publicity and inflict nearly as much pain and fear as the deaths of thousands.
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