CW: Murder, SA, All sorts of Violence, Cannibalism
New moves mean new roommates, right? And new health stuff on Remy’s end mean that our researcher needs a brain break. So let’s talk about weird roommates. Specifically, let’s talk serial killers and having one as a roommate. Of the three of us, Remy has a real serial killer story, For this “Blathersode” as M and Karen named it, we’re going to discuss serial killers as a media genre, why it’s popular, why it’s popular with the demographic it is, why we don’t hear as much about serial killers in the media as we used to, and then some banter about which ones would make the best and worst roommates.
Links today are largely going to be about the people the people we mentioned in this episode so you can learn about their various crimes, but I’ll be posting about the psychological stuff we ended up discussing as well.
So with that, let’s start with both Edmund Kemper who Karen mentioned and also the question of why some killers help with their own investigation.
Here is some information about Daniel Wozniak, who I mentioned as I was talking about how weird it is that there are more killers than you’d realize that help with their own investigations. I called him Dennis on the air (I had no notes, so here is my correction).
Here’s the next one I mentioned while talking about killers that help with their own investigations. Diane Downs gave so many interviews and acted out the made up crime she told the police happened.
This article will focus on the ethics of True Crime as a genre. By making this episode, we were participating in the genre. Occasionally, we dip into on this podcast. We’re not a true crime podcast in total, but all three of us enjoy the genre and so do most of our listeners. Is True Crime Cop Propaganda? Is it ethical to enjoy it?
This article does a great job breaking down Henry Lee Lucas, The Confession Killer. We briefly talked about them.
M asked about serial killer culture. Our obsession with it and the supposed decline of it in the news. The link further up labeled “Copaganda” talks about why people enjoy listening to it, but this link will talk about whether or not serial murder has actually declined.
Here’s the story of Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker, who Karen mentioned.
And here’s the story of John Wayne Gacy, who M talked about a bit. There are children involved here, so read this at your own risk.
Here’s the story of David Parker Ray, the Toy Box killer, who I talked about, but be warned, his story is particularly horrendous and vile.
And finally, here’s some info about Thomas Dillon, who sniped 5 men in the woods in Ohio.
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