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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Sept 14, 2018 17:19:04 GMT
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Post by Anarchist on Sept 14, 2018 17:26:15 GMT
I'm not going to say Blake looks sketchy...  But that dude totally looks sketchy. It looks like he's planning another "life imitates art" adventure. |
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Post by DD on Sept 14, 2018 17:34:27 GMT
Creepy.
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Post by DD on Sept 14, 2018 21:50:05 GMT
I'm not going to say Blake looks sketchy... But that dude totally looks sketchy. It looks like he's planning another "life imitates art" adventure. He does sort of look like he's listening to The Voices, doesn't he? |
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Post by Anarchist on Sept 14, 2018 22:52:36 GMT
I'm not going to say Blake looks sketchy... But that dude totally looks sketchy. It looks like he's planning another "life imitates art" adventure. He does sort of look like he's listening to The Voices, doesn't he? haha. That image begs for captions. |
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Post by beaker on Sept 15, 2018 2:12:06 GMT
This perception of crime writers is why I'm writing my current book (supernatural horror) under a pen name. I have to keep working, and I know employers are going to hesitate about hiring someone who writes about gruesome death. It wasn't my first choice of genres, but I wanted my books to be more marketable, and all of the best-selling genres have stuff that could cause people to be nervous about you (that is, sex scenes and murder). I don't know how to write sex scenes, so I chose horror.
I thought the story about Anne Perry was particularly creepy. I've read her books, and I had no idea she was a killer. But just remember that for every mystery writer who's a killer, there are some who aren't.
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Post by DD on Sept 15, 2018 4:18:03 GMT
But just remember that for every mystery writer who's a killer, there are some who aren't.  Suddenly, someone being a mystery writer isn't as big a plus as it used to be on Tindr. |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Sept 15, 2018 4:28:57 GMT
But just remember that for every mystery writer who's a killer, there are some who aren't. Suddenly, someone being a mystery writer isn't as big a plus as it used to be on Tindr. Teeeheeeeheeee |
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Post by Jeff Tanyard on Sept 16, 2018 6:59:01 GMT
I'm not going to say Blake looks sketchy... But that dude totally looks sketchy. It looks like he's planning another "life imitates art" adventure.
To be fair, everyone looks sketchy in prison orange. Or prison yellow, as the case may be. 
On the subject of mysteries and killers, I've always found the real-life sort to be more interesting than the fictional ones. Anjette Lyles, for example.  |
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Post by DD on Sept 16, 2018 20:40:00 GMT
To be fair, everyone looks sketchy in prison orange. Or prison yellow, as the case may be.
On the subject of mysteries and killers, I've always found the real-life sort to be more interesting than the fictional ones. Anjette Lyles, for example. Is it just me, or does she have a "Bride of Frankenstein" vibe going on?    |
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Post by corabuhlert on Sept 16, 2018 23:50:23 GMT
That case reminds me of Gesche Gottfried, a famous 19th century serial killer from my hometown who poisoned 15 people, mostly friends and family, including two husbands and one fiancé, her parents, her brother and her three children, with arsenic. Eventually, people became suspicious when people around Gesche started dropping like flies. One intended victim found white grains in a piece of ham Gesche had served him and took a sample to a local doctor, who used a newly developed test for arsenic. Gesche was then arrested, tried, sentenced to death and publicly beheaded. The spot on the market place where her severed head supposedly landed is marked with an X that is visible to this day (though they've turn up and repaved the market place a few times, so who knows if that's the original spot). It's a local custom to spit on the X, though I don't do it anymore, ever since I played the part of Gesche in a school play. |
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Post by Jeff Tanyard on Sept 17, 2018 0:00:59 GMT
To be fair, everyone looks sketchy in prison orange. Or prison yellow, as the case may be.
On the subject of mysteries and killers, I've always found the real-life sort to be more interesting than the fictional ones. Anjette Lyles, for example. Is it just me, or does she have a "Bride of Frankenstein" vibe going on?
I was thinking more along the lines of Aunt Bee from The Andy Griffith Show. Except with more murder and voodoo.
Lyles died in the state asylum, and that institution has been mostly closed for many years. The main building's still there, though, and "ghost hunter" types occasionally go exploring. Which they really shouldn't do, because the structure is in serious disrepair and it's dangerous.
My parents never made such a threat, but us kids would often tease each other that way. "You belong in Milledgeville!" "They'll send you to Milledgeville for that!" Etc. That was in the 1980s, so the town still had the stigma as late as then.
Trivia: Before Atlanta was Georgia's capital, the capital was Milledgeville. The old capital building is still there and currently in use by a college. It's an awesome-looking structure, too; sort of a cross between a fortress and a Gothic cathedral.
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Post by Jeff Tanyard on Sept 17, 2018 0:08:24 GMT
That case reminds me of Gesche Gottfried, a famous 19th century serial killer from my hometown who poisoned 15 people, mostly friends and family, including two husbands and one fiancé, her parents, her brother and her three children, with arsenic. Eventually, people became suspicious when people around Gesche started dropping like flies. One intended victim found white grains in a piece of ham Gesche had served him and took a sample to a local doctor, who used a newly developed test for arsenic. Gesche was then arrested, tried, sentenced to death and publicly beheaded. The spot on the market place where her severed head supposedly landed is marked with an X that is visible to this day (though they've turn up and repaved the market place a few times, so who knows if that's the original spot). It's a local custom to spit on the X, though I don't do it anymore, ever since I played the part of Gesche in a school play.
From that link:
Lol... That's always the case, isn't it? The serious villains--the for-real sociopaths and psychopaths, I mean, not ordinary criminals--never wear black capes and sport pointy mustaches. Instead, they're always full of charm and smiles.
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Post by corabuhlert on Sept 17, 2018 0:14:22 GMT
Those are some cool and creepy buildings, Jeff.
When I was a child in the 1970s/80s, kids would still threaten each other (and sometimes be threatened by adults) with "They'll send you to Ellen", whereby Ellen was the old name of a local mental hospital. Those remarks vanished almost overnight, when historians found evidence that Ellen wasn't just a hospital, but that people with mental illnesses had been murdered there during the Third Reich.
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Post by corabuhlert on Sept 17, 2018 0:17:05 GMT
That case reminds me of Gesche Gottfried, a famous 19th century serial killer from my hometown who poisoned 15 people, mostly friends and family, including two husbands and one fiancé, her parents, her brother and her three children, with arsenic. Eventually, people became suspicious when people around Gesche started dropping like flies. One intended victim found white grains in a piece of ham Gesche had served him and took a sample to a local doctor, who used a newly developed test for arsenic. Gesche was then arrested, tried, sentenced to death and publicly beheaded. The spot on the market place where her severed head supposedly landed is marked with an X that is visible to this day (though they've turn up and repaved the market place a few times, so who knows if that's the original spot). It's a local custom to spit on the X, though I don't do it anymore, ever since I played the part of Gesche in a school play.
From that link:
Lol... That's always the case, isn't it? The serious villains--the for-real sociopaths and psychopaths, I mean, not ordinary criminals--never wear black capes and sport pointy mustaches. Instead, they're always full of charm and smiles.
Supposedly, Gesche was considered a very good and very pious woman, a true pillar of the community, who always cared for the many ill people in her surroundings, after first having made sure that they fell ill by slipping them arsenic. The fact that she was such a pillar of the community was probably why she got away with so many murders for so long. |
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