My Dark Fascination
There are going to be quite a few reviews posted on this blog. I wrote them for amazon.com and hopefully they won’t sue me for reposting them here. But I think they are pretty good. Most of them are for true crime books, which is pretty much my favorite genre now. I remember years ago getting something in the mail for the True Crime Book Club and that was the only book club I ended up NOT joining! I joined the Book of the Month Club, the Quality Paperback Book Club, the Sci-Fi Book Club and the Mystery Guild. (Sadly, I still owe them all money!) But the True Crime club had offerings about weirdoes like Jeffrey Dahmer and I just wanted nothing to do with it!
Now here I am about 10 years later, addicted to “Cold Case Files”, “Forensic Files”, “American Justice”, “FBI Files”, “Body of Evidence”, and pretty much anything having to do with murder and justice. My mom finds it all horrifying and wonders how I can be terrified of bugs but can watch shows that deal with horrible crimes and graphic depictions of killings. I don’t know, really! I just want to see the end- the bad guy caught and cuffed and thrown in the slammer. I want to see a little peace on the faces of the victim’s families. I want the detectives to relate how cases haunted them and they never gave up.
To me, it’s fascinating the way a forensic sculptor can team up with an FBI psychologist and do a bust of what a killer who has eluded justice for 18 years might look like now (using the psychological profile as an aide) or put a face on an unidentified victim who only left behind a skull to work with. This has happened and cases have been solved. In fact, just recently Precious Doe was identified and a mystery put to rest after years of having a flier circulated of a picture of a bust showing what she might look like. I remember seeing that case years ago on “America’s Most Wanted” and now it’s solved! (The reason this girl had never been reported missing is that her own mother killed and decapitated her.)
I’m also fascinated with the whole mechanism of evil. Why are there people out there who have no problem perpetrating such inconceivable crimes? As a Christian I am well aware of the forces of darkness but it still gets my brain going.
Now here I am about 10 years later, addicted to “Cold Case Files”, “Forensic Files”, “American Justice”, “FBI Files”, “Body of Evidence”, and pretty much anything having to do with murder and justice. My mom finds it all horrifying and wonders how I can be terrified of bugs but can watch shows that deal with horrible crimes and graphic depictions of killings. I don’t know, really! I just want to see the end- the bad guy caught and cuffed and thrown in the slammer. I want to see a little peace on the faces of the victim’s families. I want the detectives to relate how cases haunted them and they never gave up.
To me, it’s fascinating the way a forensic sculptor can team up with an FBI psychologist and do a bust of what a killer who has eluded justice for 18 years might look like now (using the psychological profile as an aide) or put a face on an unidentified victim who only left behind a skull to work with. This has happened and cases have been solved. In fact, just recently Precious Doe was identified and a mystery put to rest after years of having a flier circulated of a picture of a bust showing what she might look like. I remember seeing that case years ago on “America’s Most Wanted” and now it’s solved! (The reason this girl had never been reported missing is that her own mother killed and decapitated her.)
I’m also fascinated with the whole mechanism of evil. Why are there people out there who have no problem perpetrating such inconceivable crimes? As a Christian I am well aware of the forces of darkness but it still gets my brain going.
posted by Spleengrrl @ 9:19 AM
1 Comments:
At 12:49 PM,
waldocarmona said…
I think there are a lot of people fascinated with the machinations of evil. Comic book writers all seem to focus mostly on Jack the Ripper. I bet he's the most celebrated killer in comic lore. He was a pivotal star in "Gotham by Gaslight" in which the Batman pitted wits against him. Maybe we should do a comic book series about serial killers. hmmmm..
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