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Your favourite Serial Killer is:

Jeffery Dahmer (17 confirmed, noted for his variety. Low numbers, but good all round player)   7 votes - 5 %
Jack the Ripper (Only 9 or so confirmed, but this sublime killer defined the genre)   39 votes - 28 %
Harold Shipman (100? 200? Boring, but brilliant)   18 votes - 12 %
Myra Hindley (6 or so, not a good showing - but children!)   5 votes - 3 %
Ted Bundy (52, noted for necrophilia & slow torture. Very Nice!)   38 votes - 27 %
John Wayne Gacy (33,Jim Goad said: a brain-battered, balloon-bobbing, Bible-belching, buttfucking boy-obliterator)   17 votes - 12 %
Albert Desalvo (13, The Boston Strangler, rapist supreme)   3 votes - 2 %
David Berkowitz (6, weak player was the Son of Sam but had some style)   5 votes - 3 %
Vaughn Orrin Greenwood (9-11, The Skid Row Slasher)   2 votes - 1 %
Henry Lee Lucas (11 confirmed, but claimed over 300! Extra credit for ambition)   5 votes - 3 %
 
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First v0te? (none / 0) (#1)
by theR on Sun Aug 5th, 2001 at 06:10:46 PM PST
Looks like I stumbled in at just the right time.


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Crying takes the sad out of you.

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Missing Choice: Ed Gein? (5.00 / 1) (#2)
by localroger on Sun Aug 5th, 2001 at 06:29:42 PM PST
Where is Ed Gein? Dahmer is by far most interesting on the list but I'd have voted for Gein if he was there. Far and away the sickest pup ever to rob a grave and dine on long-pig, even if he didn't rack up the body count Henry Lee Lucas managed.


I agree (none / 0) (#8)
by iat on Mon Aug 6th, 2001 at 01:28:17 AM PST
And let's not forget that Ed Gein inspired the seminal psycho-with-a-chainsaw film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. How many of the others on this list have inspired a classic movie?


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complaining about lack of options (none / 0) (#3)
by osm on Sun Aug 5th, 2001 at 07:21:59 PM PST
you did not include bob berdella. my hometown serial killer. get a book about him and look at the disturbing photos he took of his victims in mid-torture.


Lack of options (none / 0) (#7)
by iat on Mon Aug 6th, 2001 at 01:22:59 AM PST
You usually complain that there isn't a Natalie Portman option, so I think we should add one to this poll...


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it takes a lot to get to me (none / 0) (#11)
by osm on Mon Aug 6th, 2001 at 01:56:09 AM PST
but those pictures were just... really disturbing... this one in particular. he had this guy tied to a table. he had syringes in him which he used to inject windex and other chemicals. he had jumper cables attached to the guy which he used to shock him. i don't know if that's what he was doing the time the picture was taken, but this guy was still alive, with all of this shit attached to him with this look of horror in his eyes. it was chilling.

berdella ran a shop in kansas city called the bizarre bazaar where he sold torture devices and implements of destruction from all over the world and throughout history.

he studied art in college and one of his exhibits was: he gave the viewer an egg and made them walk through this maze with images of death all over the place. he had it setup so at the end, the person would be startled. i'm not sure if he had a live chicken getting its head cut off or a video of it. anyway, the idea was that when startled, the viewer would crush the egg in their hand.

unfortunately, berdella died of a heart attack before he could be properly exterminated.


 
Huh?! (none / 0) (#4)
by 6e7a on Sun Aug 5th, 2001 at 07:41:07 PM PST
What does it mean to have a favorite serial killer? That's twisted.
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Not quite (none / 0) (#5)
by Anonymous Reader on Sun Aug 5th, 2001 at 08:37:26 PM PST
What is twisted is the American culture that spawned so many of these killers.


Re: Not quite (none / 0) (#6)
by 6e7a on Sun Aug 5th, 2001 at 10:31:12 PM PST
I hate to break it to ya, but the US doesn't have a monopoly on serial killers.
6e77a 70 6e 6e7a!

No (none / 0) (#13)
by dmg on Mon Aug 6th, 2001 at 05:42:16 AM PST
But then, I didn't say it had. I just said that America's culture spawns lots of serial killers.

The European has a population far in excess of the United States (350million vs 248million) and we don't have anything like the number of killers you Americans have.

Perhaps its because America is a more 'anonymous' and 'transient' society. Everyone is always on the move, making it easier to kill people without getting caught.

time to give a Newtonian demonstration - of a bullet, its mass and its acceleration.
-- MC Hawking

The high incidence of Christianity is to blame (5.00 / 1) (#14)
by Anonymous Reader on Mon Aug 6th, 2001 at 09:36:12 AM PST
Remember that the doctrine of fundamentalist Christianity (as practiced in the United States) is salvation through faith, not salvation through works. Therefore, the mind of a Christian serial killer works like this: as long as I accept Jesus as my savior, it doesn't matter what I do on this planet, including killing as many people as I possibly can. This nihilistic worldview explains the high serial killer rate among the fundamentalist population.

When was the last time you heard about a Catholic serial killer? Catholicism teaches salvation through works, which is the most healthy worldview for a productive and civilized society. This has been demonstrated time and time again and the Protestants will not allow themselves to be told that the Catholics are right on this issue. Until the Protties learn this lesson, I fear that they will continue murdering as many people as possible.


Re: The high incidence of Christianity is to blame (none / 0) (#18)
by 6e7a on Mon Aug 6th, 2001 at 02:54:23 PM PST
Last time I checked, Catholics were Christians. :-) Do you have any data to back your claim that the majority of serial killers were fundamentalist Christians? I'll bet this is not true.
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You are wrong (none / 0) (#19)
by seventypercent on Mon Aug 6th, 2001 at 09:58:09 PM PST
Last time I checked, Catholics were Christians.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

--
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You just wait (none / 0) (#22)
by zikzak on Tue Aug 7th, 2001 at 01:04:21 AM PST
You'll get yours soon enough, buddy boy!

Or at least you will if I ever get around to finishing it.


 
Are You Retarded? (none / 0) (#23)
by 6e7a on Tue Aug 7th, 2001 at 06:43:41 PM PST
You must be retarded if you believe that drivel. This followup is a more reasonable argument. Even if Catholics are perverted in some way, they still meet the dictionary requirement for Christian:

One who professes belief in Jesus as Christ or follows the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus

You could argue they have it all wrong, but they still profess a belief in Jesus as Christ ever Sunday, therefore Catholics are Christian.
6e77a 70 6e 6e7a!

 
Arthur Shawcross, my hometown serial killer (none / 0) (#12)
by typical geek on Mon Aug 6th, 2001 at 05:21:14 AM PST
Geez, youse guys are so provincial, you forgot to include my hometown serial killer.


gcc is to software freedom as guns are to personal freedom.

Quit your bitching (none / 0) (#17)
by suick on Mon Aug 6th, 2001 at 02:34:42 PM PST
They included my hometown killer--ted bundy. Awww yeeeaaa. Well, if not from my hometown, he was finally arrested here.

Oh yeah, and don't talk about your homosexual "Arthur Shawcross," either. All those years of fun-let's-play-uncle time may have been special to you, but noone else really cares.

c'mon, lower.

 
serial killers are boring (none / 0) (#15)
by alprazolam on Mon Aug 6th, 2001 at 01:56:54 PM PST
i prefer jim jones. or, if you like, the US government.


 
Zodiac Killer (none / 0) (#16)
by Anonymous Reader on Mon Aug 6th, 2001 at 02:04:09 PM PST
His body count is low (only 5), but I've always found the Zodiac killer to be one of the more interesting ones. You have to get extra credit for talking to the police and the press and still not getting caught.


 
Another kick in the nuts for Spokane, WA. (none / 0) (#20)
by elenchos on Mon Aug 6th, 2001 at 11:00:21 PM PST
Where is hometown hero Robert Lee Yates? Spokane just too much of a podunk little berg for you jet set big city sophisticates? Yates killed a dozen or more here and that's just manure stuck to our hayseed boots to y'all aint it?

Well, just you watch out with your New York City serial killers. For every one you throw out to brag about we'll put up two more! See if we don't. Cause in Spokane we try harder! Yes, sir.


I do, I do, I do
--Bikini Kill


 
Serial Killer poll (none / 0) (#21)
by Anonymous Reader on Tue Aug 7th, 2001 at 12:26:00 AM PST
This poll is unbelievable!
You people are so sick.


 

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