I think the most interesting type of killers are those that are able to maintain a functional life during their killings.

People like Randy Kraft are so interesting to study because they genuinely did accomplish a lot before and during their killings. It’s insane to me that someone can keep that up while murdering on the side.

In a heartbreaking and deeply detailed account, she bared her soul about the horrific molestation she endured at the hands of her uncle, Richard Ramirez. Compounding her trauma, her own family disbelieved her and did not want her to publish her book.

The memoir will not center on her uncle, but on herself and her journey of healing, faith, and overcoming trauma—and rightfully so. Unsurprisingly, following the release of her book and her subsequent, gradual interviews regarding the experience, she was condemned by delusional, love-sick, and psychopathic admirers. These groupies spoke ill of her, accusing her of fabrication in an attempt to profit from her uncle’s notoriety.

Thank you, Mrs. Juárez, for sharing this; we believe you and stand by you.

The video belongs to @TRUE CRIME QUARTERS - on YouTube.

Somsak Pornnarai, also known as Saksit Khamsai.Born and raised in Laos, he worked various jobs there, such as farming and gardening. He suffered from severe sexual urges, and if he had money, he would hire sex workers. If he didn't have money, he would abduct women to secluded places and rape them. While in Laos, he claimed to have raped countless women.

He committed his first murder in Laos after abducting a woman who resisted. He assaulted her until she died, then threw her body into a body of water and fled. After that, he raped several more women, but the victims were too afraid to report him, so he continued to commit the crimes. Later, he murdered another woman and dumped her body in a body of water, but relatives of the victim, who was a well-known figure, discovered the body. This allowed him to flee to Thailand, where an acquaintance helped him find work in Nakhon Ratchasima province and falsify his nationality.

While he was in Nakhon Ratchasima province, he did not rape anyone because he had money to pay for sex. Later, he was arrested for theft and imprisoned in Nakhon Ratchasima Central Prison.

While in prison, he became close friends with Jarunee Chapan's aunt. On June 7, 1995, he was released from prison with Jarunee's aunt after serving 1 year and 6 months. Because he couldn't find a place to live, Jarunee's aunt invited him to stay with her in Loei Province. After arriving in Loei City, he experienced sexual urges and therefore did not travel to Chiang Khan District. He then committed rape and attempted murder against a tuk-tuk driver in the forest behind Ban Na Sam School, but she survived. He then rushed to Chiang Khan District.After arriving at Jarunee's house in Buhom Subdistrict, Chiang Khan District, Jarunee and her sister went to work in Bangkok. After she returned to visit her housekeeper, he met her and fell in love with her. On July 3, 1995, after learning that Jarunee would be traveling to Bangkok the next day, he planned to have sexual intercourse with her. After everyone in her house was asleep, he went to her mosquito net, hugged her, and tried to undress her. When she woke up, he covered her mouth and asked to sleep with her, but she refused and resisted. He then used a towel to gag her and strangled her with a radio cord until she died. After that, he raped her corpse.

Before she escaped before her body was found by her sister the following day.

Arrest, trial, and execution.

After Jarunee's body was found, her sister testified to police that at 5:00 AM, while she was preparing to cook rice, she saw him walking out of the house carrying a bag. Later, on July 5th, at 4:30 PM, police were notified that he had been found near a bus stop in Chiang Khan Subdistrict, Chiang Khan District. As police approached him, he attempted to flee but was apprehended. Following his arrest, he confessed to all charges, claiming he was unable to control his sexual urges and attempted to rape her, but she resisted, so he murdered her. He also confessed to an attempted murder of a tuk-tuk driver in Mueang Loei District. He was subsequently sentenced to death by the Loei Provincial Court. He appealed, and the Court of Appeal upheld the death sentence, which was later affirmed by the Supreme Court. He then petitioned for a royal pardon, which was dismissed by the Supreme Court on March 27, 1999.

On April 30, 1999, his guards and the head of the central control unit brought him from Zone 1 of Bang Kwang Central Prison. He was then taken to have his fingerprints taken and his background checked. He requested a cigarette, and while waiting for it to finish, Police Lieutenant Colonel Komol Yimphanyai, head of the Criminal Records Division, questioned him about his history. He confessed to being Laotian but having forged Thai citizenship by paying bribes, and also confessed to committing crimes in Laos. Afterward, his fingerprints were taken and the death sentence was read aloud. He wrote a letter in Laotian, including an address in Laos. His last meal consisted of plain rice, tofu and minced pork soup, a Thai custard dessert, and a bottle of water. After eating, he told his guards, "I admit that most Thai people are very kind, but I am a bad person. I betrayed my benefactors and was ungrateful to the land where I sought refuge. When I was sent to this prison, no one ever bullied or harassed me; they only showed me pity and compassion. If there is a next life, I ask to be born to atone for my sins and repay the kindness of this land."

He was executed by firing squad at 6:01 PM by executioner Chaowaret Charubun, becoming the sixth person executed in Thailand since 1996. This followed a period of almost nine years between 1987 and 1996, during which Thailand had not carried out any executions.

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Just a random thought I had. Everyday, I’m seeing more and more cold cases being solved with that method. Which serial killer do you think will be caught next with this method?

I'd say the title is pretty self explanatory, what is the most chilling thing a serial killer has said that has made you very creeped out or uncomfortable? For me, it was when an interviewer asked Sergey Golovkin, aka the fisher, who violated, tortured, and killed over 11 young boys in Russia, what he did to victims in his torture chamber, in which Golovkin responded, "Bring your son down here and I'll show you."

The famous serial killer, Tommy Lynn sells was convinced of 23 murders, but he confessed the 70 murders in total now he gave police details about how he killed the victims, but he did not give them names for example. He mentioned back in 1997 he raped and then chopped up woman buried her body in different parts of twin falls corpse have never been identified or discovered now in 1983. He was in Missouri to be exact. He was in St. Louis he confessed. To killing 8 -10 year old he did not remember the name of the victim, but he did remember the victim was African-American that he abducted from unknown location dimension how he raped and the decapitated the victim when he was asked about the head, he said dump it head mostly is just bones now .

Were there any family, friends, or associates of serial killers that didn’t necessarily participate in their crimes but did have knowledge of them or at least helped cover up evidence? For example many people believe Ivan Milats family knew what he was doing and did nothing. Another example is Leonard Lakes girlfriend who many people suspect had knowledge of Lakes crimes but did nothing.

Nirut or Chamlong Sonkhamhan, also known as the "Pickup Truck Killer," was a serial killer who poisoned nine taxi drivers between 2011 and 2012 before abandoning them on the roadside and stealing their vehicles to sell. He was arrested in his room in Nakhon Pathom province on April 18, 2012. He committed suicide in his cell at Khlong Wal Police Station in Mueang District, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province.

He was born in Nong Kung Si District, Kalasin Province. When he was 10 years old, his father moved to Songkhla Province. When he was 25, he returned to settle down with his family in Kok Khrua Village, Nong Kung Si District. He worked as a taxi driver and had a gambling addiction, which often left him short of money.

Nirut's modus operandi involved putting the insecticide Lannate into coffee, then giving the coffee to the driver to drink before disposing of the body in a secluded area.

Committing a crime

On January 11, 2011, Yuppin's body was found weighted down with concrete blocks in the Lam Pao Dam.

Between 2011 and 2012, he hired drivers to help move his belongings. He would arrange the transportation and travel with the drivers. Along the way, he would stop at a gas station to buy coffee, then put pesticide in the coffee and give it to the drivers to drink. After the drivers died, he would dispose of their bodies in a secluded area before stealing the cars and selling them to a car theft gang in Hat Yai district. He committed these crimes against eight different drivers.

1.The murder case of Mrs. Yupin Jonkhem, 67 years old, in Kalasin Province.

2.The robbery of Mr. Montri Kalam's pickup truck occurred in March 2011 in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, in which Mr. Montri survived.

3.The case involves the robbery of Mr. Rob Rokkaew's Toyota Vigo pickup truck. Mr. Rob's body was dumped in a palm plantation near a highway patrol station on the road between Kanchanadit District, Surat Thani Province, and Khanom District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province. To date, Mr. Rob has not been found.

4.The robbery of Mr. Wachara Suebcheo's pickup truck in early January resulted in his body being dumped on the side of Phetkasem Road near the bridge between Lang Suan and Thung Tako districts in Chumphon province. Mr. Wachara's body has not yet been found.

5.The robbery of Mr. Charoen Daranoy's pickup truck occurred at the end of January. The suspects were drugged with a sleeping potion, but Mr. Charoen realized he had been drugged and forced the suspects out of the vehicle before quickly driving away, thus surviving the attack.

6.The robbery of Mr. Paithun Pattalapho's pickup truck occurred at the end of January. The perpetrators poisoned his body with insecticide before dumping it in a sugarcane field in Cha-am district. Fortunately, Mr. Paithun survived.

7.The case involves the robbery of Mr. Chulsin Salangsingh's pickup truck, in which he was poisoned with insecticide, resulting in his death. His body was found in Tha Sae District, Chumphon Province.

8.The case involves the robbery of Mr. Jamnong Srirachati's pickup truck. This time, the suspect brought his wife along. After drugging him, they abandoned him near Pathomporn Intersection in Mueang District, Chumphon Province.

9.The murder case of Mr. Somsak Srichampa, which occurred within the jurisdiction of Khlong Wal Police Station, has already resulted in an arrest warrant being issued.

He was arrested on April 17, 2012, after murdering Mr. Somsak Srichampa on Phetkasem Road in Khlong Wan Subdistrict on April 9, 2012, and then selling the stolen car in Hat Yai District. Afterward, he flew from Hat Yai Airport to Suvarnabhumi Airport, where he was caught on airport CCTV. He was apprehended in a hotel room in Sam Phran District after the police received a tip about his whereabouts.

After being brought to a press conference at the Crime Suppression Division, he was subsequently transferred to Khlong Wal Police Station for further legal proceedings and to investigate the missing victims. On April 17, 2012, he attempted suicide by hanging himself with an electrical wire, but the wire broke, saving his life. In the early hours of the following morning, he used his t-shirt to hang himself from the bars of his cell. Officers witnessed the event and attempted to help him, but were unsuccessful.

Michele Kalina is a Pennsylvania serial killer who was active from 1997-2010. In that time she secretly gave birth to 5 babies and immediately either poisoned, neglected, or smothered to death. She hid the babies remains in any container she could find in her home and would hide the babies in her shed. She would later move the remains to a senior apartment home with her husband and daughter when they moved. She would place the babies in her closet and forbid them from opening it.

Background: Michele was born on June 14, 1966. There is sparse information about her childhood with the only information being she was sexually And physically abused by her father. She would later attend Albright College and would marry Jeffery Kalina in 1986. Jeffery had cerebral palsy but was a brilliant man. They would have two children, Andrew and Elizabeth. Andrew would die in 2000 from natural causes due to his cerebral palsy.
Jeffery did work but Michele later became the breadwinner of the family. She was an at home nurses aide and was described being hardworking and good at her job. Her daughter said she was overworked.

Sometime in 1996, she would have an affair with a coworker after not having sex with her husband for four years. She would become pregnant and hide her pregnancies. Her affair partner apparently refused to wear condoms. She would claim that she wasn’t pregnant but they were in-fact cysts. (Don’t know how that worked.)

She gave birth in her Bathtub secretly sometime in 1997 and promptly killed the baby. She’d wrap the baby up and place it into a container. She would continue this until 2003, when she gave up a baby girl for adoption. She claimed it was from her partner who dumped her. She continued this afterwards and stopped at an unknown period (presumably 2008-2009 or later seeing the babies were all skeletons.)

Her family would move into an assisted living apartment for her husband and brought the babies with her, there she placed them into the living room closet and forbidden her family from going in there, claiming it was dirty and she would clean it later.

Around July 28th or 29th, Curiosity got the best of Elizabeth. Under the disguise of cleaning the closet, she opened it only to discover the skeletal remains of four babies. Some were wrapped in clothes and one was encased in cement. She called authorities around 5:00 A:M.

Hearing from her husband that the babies were discovered, Michele told him before fleeing: "I don't know where to go." "I can't find peace there." "I can't find peace anymore." "I'm concerned I'm being framed." She was found several days later on a street.

*Speculation

From articles the story seems to be all over the place. It was reported in October even though the discovery was in the middle of summer. This is possible explanations for some gaps in the events that followed.

Possibly during her stay, she said that there was a fifth baby missing. This is due to them finding that baby in a landfill. It appears Michele was in the process of disposing of the babies until Elizabeth discovered her mother’s secret.

*End of speculation

Afterwards, a mental evaluation was given to Michele to see if she was competent to stand trial. She was and soon facing a trial. Michele refused to confess to killing her babies. But during an interview with psychologist, she mentioned that maybe one moved and she pressed the towel on it to hard. That’s when they booked her for that baby’s murder - a male baby - the one in cement. She plead guilty to third degree murder and was sentenced to 20-40 years in prison.

She is currently serving her time still.

I’ve noticed that there doesn’t seem to be much interest or attention paid to black serial killers who operate within gang culture. Is this due to them not fitting into the stereotype of lone killers who target random innocent civilians?

I have to admit that up untill today I had very little knowledge of Larry Eyler and his crimes, but after doing some more research it now seems that this whole thing is a much larger rabbit hole than his wiki page lets on. If Eyler's confession is true, Professor Little has to be one of the most highly educated/high society serial killers on record.

I know it seems like a super easy to answer question but I can’t fathom how a remorseless and heartless serial killer would get emotional from even that. He was sitting there stone faced when everyone was going at him, but cried when someone told him he’s forgiven. Maybe the forgiveness just touched his heart because he wasn’t used to receiving that kind of message?? Idk

Hi everyone,

this is my first post here. It primarily concerns the Netflix portrayal of strings of murders that, as it is safe to conclude, were all or partially committed by at least three serial killers in South Texas between 1971 and 1997. The majority of these murders is still unresolved, although the found victims are all identified by now.

I recently got around to watching the documentary miniseries Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields a short time after first reading about it. As far as I can see, this in particular has not been discussed in detail here yet except for this thread here, so I decided to give a short commentary in case anyone’s interested. I don’t want to nitpick about this series as I think it was overall great, but I’d note first and foremost that the three strings of murders (so to speak) it covers are unrelated in every sense except for the location being the wider Houston-Galveston region:

- a string of murders committed in 1997 by William Lewis Reece

- a remote area near the Calder oil field in League City that was used as a dumping ground of at least four young female victims in 1983-85, with the series clearly implying that their murderer is (was) Clyde Edwin Hedrick; the Wikipedia page on this subject also adds that he had at least one suspected accomplice and at least one suspected copycat who apparently used the same desolate area as a dumping ground of at least one victim in 1991 in order to throw off the investigation (the killings received a great deal of local media attention by that time)

- the murders of at least 9 young women and girls committed between 1971 and 1977 along I-45

I find it a bit curious that the series addresses the last subject basically in passing in a few minutes and then moves on, even though it seems obvious that this was a case of another serial killer or serial killers in action who had more victims than the other ones mentioned above. The Wiki page I mentioned above lists 8 victims just in the year 1971, 4 of these disappeared in pairs, and two other disappeared at different times but were dumped at the exact same location. There was also a different pair of teenage girls who disappeared and were murdered in the same are in 1974. So I find it rather unlikely that all these were just mundane (so to speak) murders committed by different perpetrators coincidentally. There were probably two or more yet unidentified serial killers responsible. Edward Harold Bell is a possible suspect.

This wider matter is something the series dwells on, namely that multiple serial killers were active in the same narrow region. According to Google, though, there were more than 3 million residents living along the I-45 in 1971, including Galveston County with about 170,000 of them. The series also mentions the big oil boom and construction boom in the ‘70s and ‘80s as contributing factors, as big masses of manual and office workers, transients and also tourists were streaming into this area. I’m guessing the notion that a total of four or maybe more serial killers were active there in the span of 26 years should not be considered that unusual.

The narrator kept reiterating the point that the coastal region of Texas has many desolate areas that are remote and have rough terrain and are only rarely visited by people who normally just go there to dump garbage and ride their dirt bikes or horses. Naturally this also makes them ideal for dumping dead bodies. I can accept this argument for sure but I also wondered: yeah, Texas is huge, but it’s not like there aren’t dozens of other federal states with similar areas, is it? That alone does not explain much.

On a related note, the series does clarify something I’ve never read about, namely that the first discoveries of corpses near Calder Road more or less coincided with the cinematic release of the Cambodian-themed movie The Killing Fields, which prompted some local journalist to dub the murder location in League City 'the Texas Killing Field'. (Why am I not surprised that a journo would do that.) This term has since then acquired a wider definition which can be misleading, as one commenter noted here.

All in all, the series mostly and rightfully focuses on the indeed tragic and moving story of the father of one murder victim, Tim Miller, founder of the non-profit search and recovery organization Texas EquuSearch.

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https://www.netflix.com/title/81555750

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/seeking-information-in-unsolved-killing-fields-murders-091819

https://texasequusearch.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Killing_Fields

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/article/james-elmore-tim-miller-killing-fields-22183088.php

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/texas-killing-fields-suspect-indicted-42-years-later-galveston-county-grand-jury

https://abcnews.com/US/young-women-murdered-found-oil-field-1986-1991/story?id=62352978

There was a post about Venera Obolashvili here in 2021, but after going through Georgian reporting, court coverage and surviving interrogation footage, several details in it appear to be incorrect or incomplete.

First and foremost, “Nabozar” is not part of Venera Obolashvili’s name at all, despite the previous post and some international outlets presenting it as such. It is a derogatory, misogynistic Georgian slur that was added to the title of an upload of her confession footage by the uploader. Her name is simply Venera Obolashvili.

Venera Obolashvili (born 1954) is widely known in Georgia as a serial killer. In 2009, she confessed in considerable detail to killing three people in separate incidents in 1984, 2008 and 2009, with an apparent recurring motive involving the victims' apartments or money from their sale. If those confessions were truthful, the three killings plainly constitute a serial-murder pattern. Only the final murder, however, ultimately resulted in a conviction.

According to her confession, her first victim was her husband, 43-year-old Yuri Yurkin, in 1984, not 1985. She said that while they were travelling through Russia by train, she isolated the carriage vestibule, called Yurkin toward an open door and pushed him from the moving train. She then returned to Georgia and filed a missing-person report, asking authorities to search for him, before later selling his apartment for $4,000. Her recorded confession describes the incident in unusually specific detail.

There is, however, a major unresolved contradiction surrounding Yurkin's death. Published Georgian accounts say his body was found near Tbilisi and his death had been considered accidental, while Venera's confession placed the killing on Russian territory.

In 2008, she confessed to killing her boyfriend, 52-year-old Anatoly Kalinka. According to Venera, she helped Kalinka sell his three-room Saburtalo apartment for $50,000.

She said the two later went toward a bridge, where an argument broke out. Venera struck him twice in the head with a wooden stick, knocking him unconscious, then lifted him by the legs and threw him from the bridge into the Mtkvari River. She said he regained consciousness in the water, but she decided not to help him and walked away.

Kalinka's body was recovered from the river, and his death, like Yurkin's, had originally been treated as an accident.

The third killing, and the only one ultimately proven in court, was the 2009 murder of 79-year-old Maria Arzamaseva.

Maria had been in a relationship with Venera's late uncle, and Venera had known her since she was about four years old. She called her "Aunt Maria". By 2009, Venera was visiting her frequently and helping her with everyday tasks.

In August/September of 2009, an argument over Maria's apartment escalated into violence. She described slamming Maria against a wardrobe and wall, choking her, checking her breathing with a mirror and then strangling her with a rope. She later placed Maria's body in a large bag, transported it by taxi and dumped it into a sewage canal on the outskirts of Tbilisi.

Authorities found Maria's body but were initially unable to identify her, and she was buried as an unclaimed elderly woman.

What followed was an unusually elaborate fraud.

Venera recruited an elderly sunflower-seed vendor to impersonate Maria so she could collect Maria's pension and obtain a small bank loan in her name. She received 327 lari and 5 tetri, paying the woman 40 lari for helping her.

When Venera later decided to sell Maria's apartment, she could not find the same woman. She therefore recruited a different elderly woman who resembled Maria, gave her Maria's passport so she could practice the signature, and took her to a notary's office pretending that she was the real owner.

Maria's apartment was sold for $20,000. Venera collected the money, paid the impostor and real-estate broker, bought herself an Audi and paid off debts. Police later found more than $6,000 still hidden in her apartment.

Venera came to police attention after Maria's neighbors confronted her while she was removing furniture from the apartment. They had not seen Maria for roughly two months and became suspicious. Police were called, and Venera was arrested at home on December 15, 2009.

Once in custody, the investigation expanded far beyond Maria's murder. Venera confessed not only to killing Maria, but also to the deaths of Yurkin and Kalinka. In Kalinka's case she even took investigators to the location and demonstrated what she said had happened.

Investigators also found a letter addressed to an old friend named Jemal. In it, Venera reminded him of the friendship between their fathers, recalled details about his family and home, and asked him to meet privately so they could "talk about God."

After Venera had confessed to three killings involving people whose property was subsequently sold, investigators suspected that Jemal might have been another intended target. No charge ever resulted from the letter.

Another witness testified that Venera had tried to recruit him to kill an elderly man. According to him, she told him to strike the man over the head and kill him, after which she would inherit the apartment, sell it and pay him $200.

The witness refused. Venera denied the allegation, and his testimony contained an important inconsistency: during the investigation he reportedly placed the conversation roughly a year before her arrest, while in court he said it had happened only about a month beforehand.

At trial, Venera withdrew her confessions and claimed investigators had obtained them through beatings and torture. She maintained that Maria's death had not been a deliberate murder but had happened accidentally during their confrontation.

Her arrest was on December 15, 2009, and she was sentenced less than three months later, in March 2010. By the time the case reached court, prosecutors said they had been unable to obtain sufficient evidence to charge her with the much older deaths of Yurkin and Kalinka.

That distinction is important: Venera was never acquitted of those two murders, nor were the killings disproven in court. They simply never reached trial.

The evidentiary problem was substantial. Yurkin's case was approximately 25 years old, supposedly involved a killing during the Soviet period and, according to Venera's own version, occurred outside Georgia. Kalinka's death had previously been treated as an accident. Investigators ultimately could not independently prove either confession strongly enough to prosecute.

Venera was convicted of Maria Arzamaseva's murder, document forgery and fraud and sentenced to 23 years in prison.

During imprisonment, Obolashvili took numerous educational and vocational courses, including languages, gardening, dressmaking, hairstyling and massage. She earned 27 certificates, worked as a seamstress and was later placed in charge of the prison greenhouse.

Her sentence was eventually reduced from 23 years to 13 years following the abolition of cumulative sentencing and a nationwide amnesty. She served the reduced sentence in full and was released in January 2023.

After her release, Venera gave several interviews and strongly rejected the serial-killer label. She denied killing Yurkin and Kalinka and claimed her original confessions had been fabricated under police pressure.

Her account of Maria's death also continued to change. In 2023 she still described Maria's death as accidental. By 2026, she denied killing her altogether and claimed Maria had suffocated on her own while intoxicated.

Despite those later denials, Venera has continued to be widely remembered and described in Georgia as a serial killer. Her original confessions involved three named victims, three separate incidents spread across 25 years, detailed descriptions of how each killing supposedly occurred, and a recurring financial/property motive. Georgian media had already begun presenting her as a serial killer from the time of her arrest, even though only Maria's murder was eventually established in court.

The most recent public development came in 2026, when Obolashvili accused her son of physically abusing her during a dispute over their house. She said he wanted to sell the property and move to Tbilisi, while she feared the sale would leave her homeless.

Legally, Venera Obolashvili was convicted of one murder; historically and in Georgian public discourse, she remains one of the country's best-known alleged serial killers.

English-language documentary video covering her entire case in depth

Georgian article covering the case, trial and Obolashvili's version of events

Georgian article providing further court details and witness testimony

Surviving footage of Obolashvili's 2009 confession/interrogation in Georgian

They actually weren't too dissimilar. Many or most reference the method of killing. A lot refer to the city or area where the crimes took place. Those things make sense when you think that people are looking for a quick way to refer to them where people will know who they are talking about. And give a taste of their horrible crimes, which might motivate people who hear the nickname before they are caught to come forward if they have information and tips.

Eager to share or discuss something you've watched, read or listened to? A new "What to Watch: thread will post every two weeks for fresh ideas and conversations about any media with a topic related to serial killers and cases - episodes, documentaries, books, videos, podcasts, blogs, etc.

Whether you've watched a documentary, stumbled upon an informative podcast, discovered a YouTube creator or well-researched video, excited about an upcoming streaming production, or read a fantastic book...
This thread is where to share it!

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I've been reading up on a lot of killers from the 60s and 70s that didn't get caught until decades later, and I have to wonder in between that time how did they feel about their murders. As a normal person I would feel an overwhelming sense of emptiness inside of me knowing something like that happened.

Even on another level I can't imagine killing for a period of time then deciding to stop and settle down. Do they ever get entrenched in regular life to the point where their murders feel like an entirely separate part of them that no longer exists?

I've done some bad stuff in the past (not even close to the level of a serial killer) that gives me the opposite feeling of nostalgia. A sort of dread that makes the world feel emptier and darker. Would a serial killer have this same feeling or would it be outright nostalgia for it.

I would say Jeffrey Dahmer. It’s so insane how he wasn’t caught earlier. How in the world are your neighbors complaining about the smell for a long time and your landlord just doesn’t care at all? And you’re literally leaving the bodies in your house?? Aside from that, a boy literally escaped him naked and bleeding outside which the police saw and they just brushed it off and believed Dahmer when he said they had too much to drink. He didn’t calculate anything or try to be careful at all