My advice is either listen to multiple different ones on the same case or do not listen to them at all. Some are better than others in terms of objective reporting but they are all entertainment. The subreddit /r/unresolvedmysteries also has a substantial amount of write ups. Errors and omissions are also commonly called out for updoots. Not only does bullshit like that turn listening into a waste of time, it poisons the well for discussion and sometimes causes citogenisis.
I look at it as the terminal manifestation of sadism. From a psychological and philosophical perspective that makes them interesting. Similarly the techniques to investigate and prosecute are just as interesting. Kind of like how pondering what broke Chris is a primary source of interest in the farms, the techniques to catalog it all are interesting too.
The only ones I don't find interesting are really where there's simply an absence of information. Not like a notable 'unsolved' case but I mean facts just aren't publicly out there. Personally I try and keep a delineation between being interested in individuals as case studies and having "favorites" like some of the more ghoulish enthusiasts. Likewise some people will take certain cases/victims way too personally and make it about themselves.
It confuses me that there are only two options but you said 3. I think it can be one or the other, or both. I think there are people born that are broken like that and nothing will change that outcome. Likewise there's people that would rather die themselves than harm someone else. Horrific circumstances beyond imagination can drive all kinds of people into doing crazy things. We're already at a granularity where we're observing the outliers of the outliers. Can we really confidently describe it with anything more than very general trends?
Do you know any fun facts or want to deeply analyze a few, or maybe their fans?
I guess part of it would be my lack of understanding of people in general being unable to control themselves. Most people who get away with things for a while are largely lucky. If it isn't incompetence in the first place that does them in, it's complacency going forward and simply being unable to help themselves. If a genuinely intelligent and hardworking person put their mind to it, they could make law enforcement's job nigh-impossible. That they don't implies that they can't.
Hybristophiliacs are the worst of the worst in the terrible true crime fandom. Nobody normal needs to spend a large portion of time grandstanding to talk about how bad what these people did is. Having favorites or getting obsessed with a specific case just feels grody to me too. That whole attitude kind of precludes the kind of objective understanding that would sate my curiosity. At the same time I guess my interest could be insensitive for depersonalizing a lot of it. Part of me things it might just be one of those things about women I hate and do not understand at all (Let's be real here, this is a women's issue. When the oddball man is affected, they are thinking with their dick 99/100 times).
Are you an absolute deviant who wants to have sex with one and are crazy enough to defend it on the farmsp?
If you are, please tag me in at Mass Debates. I haven't had some good hate slinging in a while.
No particular order, not all serial killer specific, my notes in parentheses. Truly Criminal, Stranger Stories, Real Crime, Lazy Masquerade, EXPLORE WITH US (subchannels too, I will be the first to say their earlier content is rough, but someone has put in work lately), this is MONSTERS (moralizing faggot sometimes, but good facts to more than balance), Merc Docs, Serial Killers Documentaries, That Chapter (good presenter, well produced, a bit less depth than I prefer, very popular), The Crime Reel, dreading (crime and psychology), Hailey Elizabeth (good if you want to hear a zoomer drone about cases for a long time, does witchcraft with makeup), Cold Case Detective, Criminally Listed (bad audio), heavy casefiles, Unresolved, Trace Evidence Podcast (Unsolved cases but very good), The New Detectives (very early 00s TV show vibe), Georgia Marie (if you can get over an Anglo accent), TRUE CRIME Loser (he's on the money on the last point, but very topical), Real Stories (00s viubes again), and not always serial killer related but The Behavior Panel is good on body language analysis.
That's the point, though. There's more women lusting over of serial killers because there's far more male serial killers than female ones. If there were more female ones, I think we would see more.
Mind you, I don't think they'd ever be proportionally the same, even if the number of female serial killers exceeded the number of male ones, but I do think there would be more of it. Men tend to be less open about these sorts of things too, so that's another thing to also consider.
Simply put, I'm saying the number is comparatively small because there isn't a lot of female serial killers to begin with, and trying to pin it all on women when you had men on this very site simping for would-be bitches like this is just not true.
I just rewatched Bundychu's last interview after having not seen it in years.
When I was a stupid 16-year-old, I thought he came off as genuine. Upon a rewatch, he really seems like he's full of shit. (In my opion) He was still so concerned with optics during his final days, which is inappropriate but unsurprising. Before his verdict was read out, he maintained total innocence in a cocky sort of away.
He never concedes to expressing guilt or remorse in the interview — he alludes to it, but mostly seems inconvenienced to acknowledge the lives he's ruined. He refuses to say what he actually did with clarity.
The vaguest point of guilt has to do with the children victims who are mentioned. For some reason, he infamously never wants to talk about the kids he killed. Is that a guilt thing? I have no clue. It could be guilt, it could be about preserving his image too.
Probably the most generic serial killer I could've brought up, I know. He's the most recent one I've revisited.
Theres a very interesting book, IIRC it's called Confessions of a Serial Killer.
Two criminologists/authors took the time to talk to Ted and allowed him, in the third person, to walk them through each of the murders and see his motivations.
Theres a very interesting book, IIRC it's called Confessions of a Serial Killer.
Two criminologists/authors took the time to talk to Ted and allowed him, in the third person, to walk them through each of the murders and see his motivations.
