True Crime

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Is anyone else fascinated by the True Crime genre? Stuck on Serial Killers? Whether in slick movie form, or battered paperback?

I'm just catching the excellent (so far) "Assassination of Gianni Versace" series, but I had already read multiple books about his slayer, the charismatic changeling Andrew Cunanan.

I wonder why such fare fascinates. Is it the interest we get from watching creepy crawlers like snakes and spiders do their thing? Or is it a sense that we all face frustrations that we could lash out about, yet somehow dont? An obsession with their often twisted psychology?

I went through a phase of being addicted to U Tube videos about the Jon Benoit Ramsey Case.

But now I am...being treated with methadone at the Betty Ford Center...and am almost completely weaned off!

The Zodiac Killer has become America's "Jack the Ripper" - a celebrated permanent mystery.

Mysteries surrounding ships and airplanes are a personal fav.

Aviation has seductive mysteries like Emelia Erhardt, D.B. Cooper (the hijacker), and the more recent Malaysia Airliner disappearance. Emelia Erhardt at least had the "right" to vanish without a trace in the vast Pacific in the Thirties before they even had radar, much less GPS. But a modern airliner with hundreds of passengers vanishing today is more than just an academic mystery, but may have practical relevence to our lives if solved.

I went through a phase of being addicted to U Tube videos about the Jon Benoit Ramsey Case.


So I gotta ask, whodunit?

My uneducated guess is that given the too-knowledgeable ransom note, the family did the poor child in