The mentally ill are seldom stupid. This sick twisted person knows that the press will blame guns, homeschooling, his parents but not him. He will get his name and picture spread through out the world. The media will use him for their anti-gun agenda like they used Levi Johnson against Palin.
“He will get his name and picture spread through out the world.”
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That about sums it up.
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“I am BT. I’m the guy they’re after — 100 percent.”
“I feel like I’m a star right now.”
BTK stands for “Bind, Torture and Kill,” a style the killer used. He used the initials “BTK” in letters he sent to local media. This was a nickname the killer gave himself.
“I just put it in one of the first letters. I’m always surprised I put it up there first. I think it was just — Bind, Torture, Kill. Now I had a label on me. It was like the ‘Green River Killer’ and “Son of Sam” and a whole slew of others stuff—’The Boston Strangler.’ “
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“He was caught when he released the ultimate taunt — a 35,000-word “manifesto,” which he demanded newspapers print.”
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“A note he left at a crime scene read, in part: “I am a monster. I am the ‘Son of Sam.’” Berkowitz sent several more notes, one to a reporter. “
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“He was never caught, even though he sent a total of 21 letters to local newspapers, revealing details about the murders only the killer could know, enclosing in some envelopes swatches of cloth snipped from one of his victims, and signing off “Zodiac.” “
“November 1888 in London, he identified himself as “Jack the Ripper.” A subsequent letter included part of a kidney that he said came from one of his victims. In that letter he wrote, “Catch me when you can.” “
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“A man killed four people in a bid to carry out a “campaign of murder” and become a famous serial killer, the Old Bailey has been told.
Daniel Gonzalez, from Woking, Surrey, set out to murder at least 10 people in an area stretching from the south coast to London, the court heard. “
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“The jury was told how the 24-year-old engineer idolised the dictators Hitler, Stalin, and Saddam Hussein, as well as Henry Lee Lucas, an American serial killer. He said he wanted to get caught because that would make him famous, the court heard.
Copeland told officers that he felt sad about one of his victims, Andrea Dykes, because she had a baby. “
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“The notion that mass murder is motivated by the desire to “go down in infamy” or to achieve some kind of sensationalistic, news media coverage is known as the “Herostratos Syndrome” (Borowitz 2005). “
This condition of “fantastic thinking” bears a close resemblance to the delusional aspects of paranoid schizophrenia where the person envisions themselves as being a superstar. Culture plays a role in this by encouraging the superstar aspiration. The only good deterrent for such a thing is to deny such people access to the history books. A long, long time ago, one of the world’s first historians told a story about a person who burned down one of the seven wonders of the world (the Temple of Diana) so that “his name shall live forever.” The historian’s account went like this: “I know his name, but will not write it.”
http://www.drtomoconnor.com/4050/4050lect07.htm