Psycho Killer, Qu'est-ce que c'est?

Serials killers are an interesting topic because they are both revolting and fascinating. While I should be disturbed when I read about Jeffrey Dahmer or Jack the Ripper I can't help becoming addicted. Instead of closing the book in horror I find myself online or at the library obsessively reading about these people and their gruesome misadventures. Sometimes I feel like I get high off of just knowing what these people have done, the wave of panic, disgust, excitement and cruel enjoyment makes serial killers a guilty pleasure in my book. And arriving at the topic of this blog these unassuming celebrities are pretty fucking awkward. To tie up children in your closet and slowly eat them does make one seem frightening and mentally unstable. But aside from that, imagine how awkward their lives are, living alone with 20 bodies under their porch. It must be incredibly uncomfortable when a person comes over to their house for tea and they have a human head in their fridge or when they get pulled over by a police officer for speeding and there's a dead body in their trunk. I wonder how that conversation goes... they probably feel pretty awkward. Yes, there are many other words to describe this situation, but awkward is definitely one of them as well.

So here I have decided to write about some of the most awkward serial killers in history. If anyone likes this blog I can regularly write about some strange psycho killers.

Richard Trenton Chase, also know as "The Vampire of Sacramento" killed people, puppies and rabbits. He drank their blood and organs after putting them in a blender because he thought that it would prevent his brain from shrinking. Imagine what that smoothie tasted like! He was committed after a brief hospitalization for blood poisoning because he injected rabbit's blood into his veins. He also thought he had to drink blood to prevent the Nazis from turning his blood into powder through a soap dish. Sounds like an awkward explanation to me. Imagine saying that to someone who asks "why did you do it"? "Well, I did it to escape the Nazi's". Dude, it's like 1996 that explanation ceased to be viable about fifty years ago. Interesting fact, he is also known as the "Werewolf of Wisconsin" due to a person he killed in Wisconsin.

Eddie Gein is the Godfather of serial killers. His story has birthed such famous characters as Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs and Psycho's Norman Bates. His domineering mother arrested his emotional development leaving him to become a quiet bachelor who killed women and created plates, clothing and furniture out of their skin. He was caught when police searched his house and found a vest made out of human skin. Numerous bodies were found buried under his back porch.

Robert Hansen was an Alaskan serial killer who despite his pockmarked face and scrawny physique, somehow got women to come to his secluded cabin in the woods. Once there, he would bind and torture them. I mean come on Robert! Gosh, if she's going to come to your secluded cabin in the woods it's probably a sure thing, there's no reason to take out your repressed anger on the few women who would have actually slept with you. So after this brief torture session he would then release the women into the woods, giving them the chance to escape. They never did though because he would mercilessly hunt them down like wild animals. Sounds like every Redneck horror movie I've ever seen.