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Honestly, I feel like quite a few of these fangirls don't actually know the details of the murders the killers they idolize committed. They don't strike me as the type of people who would actually read books or watch documentaries on the subject, unlike people who do so because they're interested in true crime.
Maybe they know the general gist of a serial killer's (or serial killers') modus operandi and their victim count, but I doubt they've actually done any extensive research. Like, it's probably easier to draw cute animu pictures of Jeffery Dahmer if you don't know that he experimented with making the perfect sex slave by drilling holes into men's (and sometimes boys') skulls and injecting fucking acid into them.
Oh, I assure you, they know. They totally know. In fact they, more than anybody, will usually go out of their way to find out as much as they can about these dudes. It will become a full-blown obsession. They will find out as much as they can about these guys and pick up every little detail they can because that is what fangirls do for their favorite actors and musicians, so of course they would do the same for serial killers and mass shooters.
I am friends with one girl who has a legit crush on Dahmer. She's also well aware that he was a fucked up dude who murdered people and doesn't try to defend what he did or downplay it (I had recommended My Friend Dahmer to her only to find out she'd already read it, and she talked with me about other books on him). She's also big into black metal and horror films on top of that. But she's also in a happy relationship with her boyfriend so, yeah. IDK, man. People are weird.
Is there any overlap between fanboys/girls of these people and the conspiracy theorist crowd that believe they were framed? I know there are people who think Holmes and Tsarnaev's crimes were actually perpetrated by the government.
Not as much as you might think.