There are supposed to be something like 20 serial killers roaming across the U.S. at any given time...
I've been reading True Crime since the 1980's and have had Internet since 1999, but am blown away by all the serial killers, I mean bad ones, that keep turning up. Never heard their names before.
Recently I got a book about Marcus Wesson - never had heard of him - who killed 9 of his own children. And he was quite a character. Dreadlocks to nearly his knees and sought to make his many children (14?), fathered mainly with his daughters and nieces, into vampire-christians. When in jail there were many witnesses as to Wesson masturbating, often, and rubbing the ejaculate into his hair. If this wasn't newsworthy, what is? He does have a page on Wikipedia.
At the same time, the Scott Peterson case was all over the news, easy recognizable. I wonder if the media is scared to touch cases like Wesson's due to his race. And his extreme religiosity. The media will make a great stink over nothing to get a story out there, but in this recent case (2004) even the name was unrecognizable until I got the book from the True Crime listing in my library system online.
It's scary, people. It's even worse than you can imagine.
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