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I'll have to go with Casey Anthony. Not so much what was on TV, but reading all the police reports and such was a very interesting look into the mind of a pathological liar/sociopath/psychopath. Didn't see anything like that before or since, with maybe Arias of course
The Sante & Kenneth Kimes case fascinates me as well.
John List killed his family in the 70s, and he didn't go overseas or do anything with a lamb. He married someone, got a job, and lived in another state under an assumed name.
Wish I could remember the name of the one case: A Father kills his entire family in the /40's? or 50's? Sorry can't recall the exact era. He then goes on the lamb and lives over seas, where I think back in 2000 he was captured. I just recall how He did it so methodically...and didn't have any remorse...
As already posted, John List didn't go overseas but relocated here in the U.S. You might be confusing him with another family annihilator (I think his name was Bishop, or something similar), that worked for the U.S. State Dept. He killed his entire family then fled overseas, back in the early 70's IIRC. Don't know if was ever captured or not.
How about the Manson case? The '60's weren't totally about peace and love, and silly kids wearing flowers and bell-bottoms. There was a dark, scary side to those times, where all the stable elements of society people had always counted on seemed to be collapsing. The Manson murders were a microcosm of this dark side of the era.
I'd also say that serial killers can really grab attention. They can put the populaces of entire cities on edge, because it's just so crazy and scary to think of someone going around killing at random for kicks.
A lot of serial killers grab headlines because their crimes are so bizarre, but one who is particularly fascinating is Ted Bundy. That's because of both the number of victims and the way he seemed like a really clean-cut, likable, intelligent young man, who could have had a really successful life.
Also especially intriguing are infamous unsolved cases, like the Zodiac and Jack the Ripper (if we're including killers outside the U.S.). The unsolved status of these cases in itself makes them fascinating, because this leaves you wondering about several points: who the killer was in each case, why the murders stopped, and what became of the killer after he stopped the murder spree, at least those crimes known to be attributed to him. Then these cases become doubly intriguing because of all the theories that develop about who each killer was.
I've been following the Jessica Chambers case for over a year now, and still question the true extent of the perp (Quinton Tellis)'s alleged involvement in the heinous crime.
The Wichita Massacre also fascinates me, as do the murders of Sylvia Likens (downright heartbreaking, no one deserves to go the way she did, not even the San Bernardino shooters), Kate Steinle, Martha Moxley, Brian Deneke, Dr Teresa Sievers (again, question the allegations against the alleged perp) and Susan Roberts (local, not exactly "high-profile" though I wish it garnered more attention than it did).
Another case that is intriguing, although not really a "murder" per se, is the psychological downward spiral and eventual suicide of Ricardo Lopez who stalked and INTENDED to kill singer Bjork, recording his manifesto and downfall via videotape (as well as the suicide itself). This is also relatively local for me (I'm in SE Fla).
The US military industrial complex the way they go on killing innocent people around the world and get away with it. This is the most high profile and yet least talked about murder case that continues to go on practically unrecognized by the news media today.
I'm actually surprised so many have mentioned Jodi Arias -- she's an awful person, for sure, but so was her victim. I've read the details of this case; Travis Alexander was a terrible person who kept getting involved and re-involved in an outrageously dysfunctional relationship while leading other women on. (let's not even get into his sexual proclivities; that pedophilic little ***** deserved to get his ass kicked and then some)
He didn't deserve to die, but he definitely was not some innocent person struck down randomly by pure evil. Can anyone say the world is in worse shape because this creepy dude is gone? Nah, not really.
The Jodi Arias case = two *******s getting involved, one of them murders the other. The end.
Delusional BS every one. Why do right wing nut jobs have to pollute every section of city data?
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