Do you like serial killers?
- Thread starter demoncore1031
- Start date
It's a little more Bill and a little less Holden this season. Way more Dr. Carr. Still really good, they just had to take it to a more focused direction to maintain the storyline. Much of it takes place in Atlanta.
You're not supposed to like Holden. He's a fully self-absorbed *******. But a genius at that.
The characterization of all the serial killers they've interviewed on the show have been brilliant!
Is the show based on actual events, or a more generalized account of how profiling came to be a thing? I haven't done any digging but have watched both seasons - I didn't know if the main characters were based on individuals or a collection of people/events.
Seems like a good time to discuss it with authorities if he's locked up.
So, David Fincher (of Se7en and Fight Club fame, among many others) was given a book by Charlize Theron called "Mindhunter" (LINK). He embraced the story, and is an executive producer and frequent director in the series.
Holden, Bill, and Wendy are all loosely based on real-life people who helped come up with the unit and the idea of serial killers. The book on which it is based is true-crime. I just looked up the Wiki page to get the names of the people on whom it is based, and it's an interesting read: LINK
I have been interested in a few cases over the years. Most interesting to me being those of a more historical nature:
Leopold and Loeb
Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. It's my understanding that she's living in Michigan under a new name to this day.
Leopold and Loeb
Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. It's my understanding that she's living in Michigan under a new name to this day.
There is a good Moonlight Graham episode where they ask Keith Murphy what brought him to Iowa and he said its because he took the first job he could, to get out of FL/GA because he covered the Gainsville Ripper and it depressed him so much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Rolling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Rolling
I love the way they are using real crimes for the show. Crimes that you mostly never hear about. Someone claiming to be the Zodiac Killer actually mailed a letter claiming responsibility for the Atlanta child murders.
I always like to see how people play Manson in movies and TV shows. The dude that played him on Mindhunter was so-so.
I really like it, too. I think it's great that they are shedding light on situations we don't hear about, but showing how they affect the communities (both in good and bad ways), what obstacles investigators face from all sides, etc.
I've always had sort of a dabbling morbid curiosity about serial killers (not to the point where I only read or watch about them, but I've definitely read some biographies and watched shows and such). Manson is absolutely fascinating, and it's interesting to see different takes on him. I thought the dude on Mindhunter looked like him, for sure, and did a fairly okay job showing how he could mess with your mind.
Yes, I watch about 50% murder/abduction type things on Netflix.
I finished the Devil Next Door on Netflix last night.
I have only watched Season 1 of Mindhunter but loved it.
Also watched I am a Killer, The Confession Tapes, Evil Genius, The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, Abducted in Plain Sight, Conversations with a Killer: Ted Bundy, You and the Innocent Man in 2019.
I watch Making a Murderer whenever new season comes out.
My other 50% is The Ranch, Stranger Things, 13 Reasons Why, The Haunting of Hill House, Last Chance U and the End of the F****** World.
I finished the Devil Next Door on Netflix last night.
I have only watched Season 1 of Mindhunter but loved it.
Also watched I am a Killer, The Confession Tapes, Evil Genius, The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, Abducted in Plain Sight, Conversations with a Killer: Ted Bundy, You and the Innocent Man in 2019.
I watch Making a Murderer whenever new season comes out.
My other 50% is The Ranch, Stranger Things, 13 Reasons Why, The Haunting of Hill House, Last Chance U and the End of the F****** World.
A lot of crimes from the 60s and 70s have mostly been forgotten. It's sad there are so many cases where the families got no closure.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...BBAB&usg=AOvVaw1kNnq1C6R0uAcax5ObnEON&cf=1
Article from 2013. You probably were already aware of this incident if you were interested in the case.
Del Harding, the Lincoln Star reporter who covered the murders and the trials, is convinced of Fugate's guilt, a belief he bases partially on hundreds of conversations with law officials that led to information that didn't always reach the public.
Authorities never once spread rumors that misled the public, says Harding, who now lives near Fort Collins, Colo.
Fugate's demeanor during the case also shocked Harding. He remembers her acting far older than her 14 years.
"I covered a lot of murder trials, and I've never seen anybody with a look in their eyes like Caril," he says. "She looked daggers. … She was just cold, emotionless, never smiling. There was never a flicker of warmth that I saw."
They always seem nice until they cut your face off and bury you in the crawl space.
