Tag: true crime

This episode of Forensic Files makes me happy, a mom whose daughter got hit by a car did her own detective work after the cops just went over a nice old black guy and sje found the guy who hit her daughter herself.

The poor girl died 21 years later, but still a relatively nice story.

I Think A Lot Of The Time When People Do Unspeakable Things

It’s tempting to just write them off as monsters and take the emotionally satisfying route of just killing them or whatever.  “You’re bad and you will be punished” and like I mean if that actually stops it from continuing, great but like sometimes I wonder if it actually helps.

Like it’s tempting to take the harshest, most just kill em’ position with serial killers or whatever and like I get that but I’m not sure that stops there from being more of them and like looking at prevention, looking at the causal factors in terms of the most hideous things that happen is uncomfortable because it shows that evil isn’t something that just shows up for us to do battle with, evil is a sign of social failure and that’s fucking uncomfortable and whether a given individual is redeemable or retrievable or whatever isn’t really the point.  The point is that there was a point where they were usually and we didn’t, and how that happened is ugly to look at.

IDK.

Also like are there cases of people doing stuff that seems “Obvious Serial Killer Warning Sign”-y and Turning Out Okay?

Like the stuff the Texas Eyeball Killer and The Sacramento Vampire did before they started on the murdering (creepy taxidermy with terrifying button eyes and injecting himself with animal blood/drinking animal blood mixed with coca-cola respectively)?  Cause like people who do shit like that get released… these two particular people got released so are there cases of them like getting treatment, being medicated and ending up…okay?  I feel like there must be because otherwise no one would release them and I think true crime interest really warps your sample, y’ know?