User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/The Night Stalker is Dead/@comment-9584883-20150613021302/@comment-26030957-20150613191413

Ah snap, here he is, the man, the legend, the father of noir pasta, my good buddy The Blacknumber.

It's a funny thing that a lot of people correspond with and even visit serial killers. They have become dark icons of our celebrity obsessed culture. There is a great documentary called Serial Killer Culture about obsessed people who write and visit serial killers as well as collect artifcats such as original crime scene photos and art work. John Wayne Gacey in particular was a very prolific painter with a lot of art work out there. Yeah, if you still had that letter I bet you could sell it on Ebay for a pretty penny.

I read a funny interview with Henry Rollins, once the lead singer of Black Flag, where he talked about corresponding with Charlie Manson (Black Flag were pretty obsessed with Charlie Manson, take a look at some of their old fliers to see some very creepy but very funny Charlie and the Family artwork). Henry said that Charlie would draw swastikas and weird shit all over the envelopes and when he went to pick up his mail at the post office the old lady behind the counter would always give him weird looks. Gregg Ginn (Black Flag's guitarist) was even somehow to make recordings of Charlie playing guitar in prison and SST was going to release it, but got such negative feedback--even death threats--that they canned the idea. But the tapes are still there and I heard a rumor they are going to be releasing them soon.