And who remembers these killings these days? Just like the brutal robbery killings of those white people, who were forced to do sexual situations before almost all of them were slaughtered, and the Jesse Dirkhising sex murder and the Mary Stachowicz hate crime -- it all falls down the memory hole.
Oh, the Wichita Horror won't be forgotten...It's becoming part of the "entertainment industry". It's being made into a film by the same guy that directed the Saw movies. It's going to be titled (imaginitively enough) Wichita, and it's about the EIGHT victims in the case...Apparently to the director, the two murdererous sadistic Carr brothers are also 'victims'.
Me.
I do.
My wife and I were home on leave in the Bay Area when these murders were taking place. Nonetheless, we decided to take our small son to the San Francisco Zoo despite all the fear and bad publicity.
The streets in San Francisco were almost deserted of traffic, as were the sidewalks - even though it was in the middle of the day and it was a beautiful day. Right near the Zoo, we stopped at a stoplight. A motorbike with two young blacks pulled up right beside us next to my open window. They wore helmets, dark clothing, were very black complexioned and both around 18-22 years old. But the thing that stood out most to me besides "the look" was the "Death Angel" patches both were clearly wearing on their shoulders. They both looked closely at us, and those looks somehow simply chilled my blood. Just then, the light turned green and I made a quick turn and sped away. There was no other traffic, or cops, or anybody else around.
My wife and I were both happy to get out of there and both sensed what we thought was a real menace. We remarked to one another at the time how spooky it was and how we both had the same strange fear. The Zoo was almost empty and we had a lonely time there with the few other people. We were happy when we got home. The experience was still on our minds.
The next day, the case broke wide open in the newspapers. The murder ring was revealed and a large number of these killers were rounded up. Their victims ran into the dozens, as I recall, most of them were white and some of them were tortured or dismembered before death. They got "points" for who they killed and how. Their insignia was the very "Death Angel" patches we had seen on the shoulders of those men sitting next to us on the motorbike. We had never seen this insignia before we saw it first on these two riders and the next day in the newspapers and on TV. It was shocking.
Perhaps they were cruising, looking for new victims? Maybe we were just too fast and they couldn't decide? Perhaps they had other plans? We will never know. But the experience still gives me the willies, even 30 years later.
Yes. I remember it.