User blog comment:CrashingCymbal/Are There Any Serial Killers/Murder Cases That You Have a Keen Interest In?/@comment-6862307-20140202224639

Gacy was a creepy motherfucker. I learned about him when I was 16, and before that clowns never scared me. Not even ones that were supposed to be scary. Hell, I saw that famous photo of him in his Pogo The Clown getup BEFORE I knew who he was and everyone was freaking out and the picture didn't bug me. But after I read about him and what he did, and then saw that photo again I suddenly started reacting to clowns the same way I react to spiders and am now plagued by calrouphobia up the arse.

Though the case I've been most fascinated with is Ed Gein. It started with "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" which is one of my favourite horror films, it disturbed the hell out of me as a little girl and it disturbs the hell out of me today. I watched it for the first time on BluRay last week and I never noticed before that the lamp over the dinner table was made out of a hollowed out human head, and I closed my eyes and groaned "As if we needed another reason for the Dinner scene to be one of the scariest fucking scenes on film...." but I was always fascinated with Leatherface and the fact that each of his faces represented something different, and that he was more fleshed out than some slasher villains - and then I learned that was inspired by Ed Gein, and I looked up Ed Gein facts and even though he didn't have a very high body count when it came to people he actually murdered, he is still considered a serial killer and reading the list of things they found in his house was fucking surreal. I still remember when it said that they found "Severed Vulvas" lying around and a coat made of them, and my mind was trying to process how exactly you seperate that part of the body considering most of it goes INTO the body (Like the vagina, urethra, etc.) and then I decided I probably didn't want to think about that in detail, especially considering I have one. I find Gein's psychological profile especially interesting, because even though he clearly WAS sick and anyman capable of committing cold blooded murder - even if it's just 2 people (that we know of.) - is not a "good" man, I feel that he was not precisely as malicious in his intent as other famous American serial killers like Bundy or Gacy. It didn't seem like he derived joy out of killing or harming people at all, he was just confused, disturbed, and unfortunately sick - but not some guy who got off on the idea of killing or sexually torturing anyone.

I have a harder time admitting this, but I also often find myself fascinated with cases where children, pre-teens, or very very young teens murder other children, pre-teens, or very very young teens. I think it began with the James Bulger case, it's a very tragic scenario and I don't even want to imagine what James went through nor his family but I can't help but find myself fascinated as to what drove those two young boys to do what they did. I know a lot of people pointed to "Child's Play 3" despite the fact there was only one minor tangential relation (OMG, in the movie Chucky tosses blue paint on someone, and the killers had blue paint in the list of things they used on James! They MUST BE RELATED!)  which is where I first heard of the ordeal and ever since that case I found myself morbidly curious about similar cases. The mind just boggles when I hear of cases of children murdering others, it's hard to explain why - I guess it has to do with the fact that we view them all as "Innocent." Recently my girlfriend Midori was telling me about a case that occurred in her home country of Japan, about a 12 year old girl named Satori who was murdered by a classmate (Who went unnamed, apparently due to Japanese laws regarding juveniles.  Midori said the news called her "Girl A.") and that "Girl A" was apparently overtly apologetic later and that she did it just because Midori said she was chubby on the internet, and my mind struggled at that too - I know that children will sometimes push back, but rarely have I heard of a case where they pushed back to that extreme. At least not with children that young (I think Midori said "Girl A" was 10.) and yet I wish there was more information, even if again I feel sick saying that.