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Serial murderers, their killing fields, and sacred rituals. II

October 10, 2020 By Karl Leave a Comment

Sacred rituals.

In my last post, I talked about killing fields where some serial killers conduct their sacred rituals.** But many killers don't have access to a remote outdoor places or even a basements or crawl spaces to do this. So they must rely on souvenirs to re-live the sense of power or the psychological high they got from killing. Souvenirs and scared rituals. If you're like me, you love bringing home souvenirs home from a vacation as a nice reminder of the great trip you had. During Covid-19 … [Read more...]

Serial Murderers – their sacred killing fields and rituals. Part I.

September 27, 2020 By Karl Leave a Comment

Bundy's sacred killing fields

Killing fields as Sacred Grounds.   Kathleen Ramsland, a professor of forensic psychology and prolific writer, claims that many serial murderers stake out killing fields, which often become burying fields as well. They reveal their pathological need for control when they feel violated upon discovering that one of their victim’s remains has been found and removed by authorities. Ramsland describes a case that fascinated people around Manchester, England, where I spent sabbaticals … [Read more...]

Plea bargains, Prisons, Parole — an after-your-arrest Tutorial with Boston Strangler tie in.

November 23, 2019 By Karl 1 Comment

Plea bargains would not have served Strangler victims' interests.

Am close to finishing my latest book, Privileged Killers, where I take plea bargains and parole board decisions to task. These are two phenomena that've dictated court and corrections culture  for years. Hopefully this tutorial will help  writers, criminology students,  true-crime fans, and others understand these topics. Plea bargains are a win-win often. Suspects get to plead guilty to doing something less serious than what they've done in all likelihood. The joke is it's  like copping to  … [Read more...]

Could AI fight cyberbullying or ID suicidal depressives?

October 20, 2019 By Karl 3 Comments

AI Fight Cyberbullying

  If you’re at all like me, it’s hard enough to keep a coupla digital gadgets working. Just ordered a new Mighty Mouse for my tired desktop and found I had to search among antiques on Ebay. My new refurbished buddy isn’t even a Magic Mouse, but does the trick. So when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), I’m at the mercy of doubters (no such thing yet) along the spectrum to the Cassandras (it’s already ending democracy, the world as we know it.) I DO suspect, that AI’s why I’ve … [Read more...]

Scary NFLer—victim of bullying, discrimination, or mental illness?

March 10, 2018 By Karl Leave a Comment

I'm disturbed and saddened that discrimination and/or mental illness has taken a serious toll on a bullying victim I've featured in prior posts.    Ex-NFLer Jonathan Martin graduated from Harvard-Westlake prep school in L.A. and then Stanford. He joined the Miami Dolphins in 2012. But during his 2nd year with Miami, he became the center of a scandal involving harassment and bullying on the part of his teammates Richie Incognito and Mike Pouncey.   Hero, villain, or fool?  Things … [Read more...]

Cocaine, mental illness, trauma: What killed Carrie Fisher?

July 1, 2017 By Karl 2 Comments

The Fishers with Carrie...and Cocaine

      I'm working on a memoir tentatively titled Four Murders and a Funeral.  In one of the murders, powdered cocaine plays a role. At least that's what the defendant and his attorney would like us to believe. Whether  the drug was to blame for the murder and whether addiction was involved is part of the story I tell. Cocaine  Carrie Fisher's use of cocaine never became much of a criminal justice issue. Some feel celebs get a pass for behavior that lands others of us  in … [Read more...]

Robin Williams, bipolar disorder?——II

August 20, 2014 By Karl Leave a Comment

Robin Williams

I've studied depression and its variants all my life—as a psychology major, as a med student, and as an observer of those around me. I've chosen to weigh in on the debate over Robin Williams for that reason, and also because depression is an important theme in my memoir, Cleft Heart. Before delving further  into the Williams case,  I'll address some of feedback I've received regarding my assertion that Williams suffered from bipolar disorder. And since there have been new revelations about … [Read more...]

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  • ‘40 Years a Prisoner’- Film about MOVE vs Philly Cops.
  • Why are so many fascinated by Serial Killers?
  • A Culture Of Discrimination in the US Navy.
  • Crime – Extremist Mass Murder – Tutorial – Proud Boys and Others Pose Threat.

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Serial Killer Trading Cards

Popular Culture and True Crime – Tutorial I – Serial Killer trading cards?

About the same time that Michael Aamodt, a professor at Radford University in Virginia, started cataloguing serial killers, trading cards popped up. Aamodt's Serial Killer Data Base, compiled with the help of students, is academic, respectable. See here for a prior blog re Aamodt's Radford … [Read More...]

MOVE

‘40 Years a Prisoner’- Film about MOVE vs Philly Cops.

How well I remember the days leading up to what seemed like just another incident of conservative urban police officials not understanding evolving radical beliefs and ideologies of the time. I'd just finished grad school in West Philadelphia, but still got  MOVE  updates from friends I'd visited in … [Read More...]

Fascinated by Serial Killers?

Why are so many fascinated by Serial Killers?

Are you spending hours binging on TV shows and documentaries about serial killers these days? Fascinated by serial killers? One might say Covid-19 is to blame. But many of you were fascinated by serial killers as a child. There was something about them. Many of them appeared quite charming, … [Read More...]

Discrimination in the US Navy

A Culture Of Discrimination in the US Navy.

This site examines all manner of discrimination. Bias towards as well as against people as here and here.  Steve Walsh , a military journalist, has written an important enough piece on the problem of promotions to admiral among black ranks in the US Navy, that it's worth repeating in … [Read More...]

Wolverine Watchmen

Crime – Extremist Mass Murder – Tutorial – Proud Boys and Others Pose Threat.

  My bad. I've overlooked extremist mass murder in recent posts. However, in my blog tutorial about multicide, I covered many types of mass murder in the US. And using data from the GunViolence.org Archive, I showed how many mass shootings we've had in recent years. Also, using CNN data, I … [Read More...]

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