Tenbatsuzen
11-26-2007, 08:23 PM
A guilty pleasure (?) of mine is reading crime blogs and find out about the seedy and sordid world of criminals. Unsolved murders, missing people, that sort of thing. It started when I read Robert Graysmith's Zodiac when I was younger and then seeing Michael Mann's "Manhunter" followed by a cancelled NBC show with William Peterson called "Unsub".
After discovering the internet, I'd lurk on newsgroups like alt.true-crime and such.
Like Fez, I have a weird phobia about composite sketches of criminals. I sometimes force myself to read up on it so I can face my fear head-on.
I have consistent nightmares about home invasions. The Sean Taylor thing has now aggravated this.
So once again, I started looking online when I found out about this incident which broke my heart and spooked me at the same time.
A couple, married 55 years and retired, were day-hiking in a North Carolina national park. Something goes bad and the wife's cellphone calls 911, only to drop the call.
2 weeks later, a search begins and the wife - but not the husband's - body is found.
Searching the bank records, they found out that their bank card was used at an ATM; so they pull the video.
The sonofabitch walked up to a drive-through ATM. the camera got nothing because of this. They have a full body shot, and it's not the husband using the ATM.
Sorry, I know I'm rambling... this is how I face some of my fears; it's weird.
After discovering the internet, I'd lurk on newsgroups like alt.true-crime and such.
Like Fez, I have a weird phobia about composite sketches of criminals. I sometimes force myself to read up on it so I can face my fear head-on.
I have consistent nightmares about home invasions. The Sean Taylor thing has now aggravated this.
So once again, I started looking online when I found out about this incident which broke my heart and spooked me at the same time.
A couple, married 55 years and retired, were day-hiking in a North Carolina national park. Something goes bad and the wife's cellphone calls 911, only to drop the call.
2 weeks later, a search begins and the wife - but not the husband's - body is found.
Searching the bank records, they found out that their bank card was used at an ATM; so they pull the video.
The sonofabitch walked up to a drive-through ATM. the camera got nothing because of this. They have a full body shot, and it's not the husband using the ATM.
Sorry, I know I'm rambling... this is how I face some of my fears; it's weird.