Skyler Saunders
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Reason First: The Killer Clown- John Wayne Gacy
With a weekend job like “Pogo the Clown” it would seem as if John Wayne Gacy was just another happy-go-lucky man of the Mr. Rogers variety. Such, however, was not the case with Gacy. He murdered thirty-three boys and teenaged men in Chicago, Illinois from 1972 to 1978. His lust for blood, and complete absence of empathy, led him to continue killing no matter the cost.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Candy Man- Dean Corll
From the autumn of 1970 to the summer of 1973, Dean Corll and his two accomplices, Wayne Henley and David Brooks, lured at least 27 young boys to Corll's home where the three men then tortured, mutilated and murdered the boys. Henley ended up killing Corll before he could pay for his crimes, but Corll is still the best known of the three. He was given the name "The Candy Man" because his mother ran a sweet shop where Corll would dispense sweets to boys who fit his ideal "prey," as a way of grooming them to be more receptive to his invitations.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Monster Matriarch- The Death Row Granny
Roach, ant poison, and iced tea don’t make for the best cocktail. Yet Velma Margi Barfield thought this would be the perfect drink for her fiancé to imbibe. For her actions, she would become the first woman to die by lethal injection. But not before advocates argued her sentence be commuted because Barfield had recently become a born-again.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Decisions and Chemicals- The Shoe Fetish Slayer
Childhood trauma and mistreatment seem to cut like blades through the psyches of numerous killers, and Jerry Brudos was no exception. His mother dressed him up as a girl, because she was dissatisfied that he wasn’t born a girl. So by the age of five, Brudos had developed a fetish for women’s shoes.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Slayer Orderly- Donald Harvey
Donald Harvey was no Jack Kevorkian, no “Angel of Mercy” helping people choose the time of their death. He murdered people instead of alleviating their pain with measured actions. As an orderly in the hospitals of Cincinnati, Ohio, and London, Kentucky, his methods included suffocating, pulling tubes from oxygen tanks, poisoning his victims with cyanide and arsenic, and overdosing people on insulin and morphine.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Imagine Him Living- The Murder of John Lennon
When John Lennon was murdered, he joined a long and growing list of men who met violent ends despite spending their lives preaching peace. Gandhi, JFK, RFK, Medgar Evars, Malcolm X, MLK and even Jesus of Nazareth represented a mixed set of premises, but all agreed on the value of peace, and all were struck down nonetheless. And more.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Scapegoat or Vicious Killer?- The Cincinnati Strangler
The electric chair would have been Posteal Laskey’s fate had his sentence not been commuted to life in prison. Laskey’s fate had his sentence not been commuted after a review of his case determined the prosecution based its case mostly on conjecture, and failed to present sufficient evidence to meet the burden for the death penalty. Convicted for the “Cincinnati Strangler” murders of the mid 1960’s, Laskey spent forty years in prison before his death of natural causes.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Patrick Kearney’s Choice- The Trash Bag Murderer
Patrick Kearney hunted other gay men who could be more imposing than his fragile, 5’5” stature from 1965 to 1977. In total, he murdered over forty men, primarily along the California highways, in what would be known as the “trash bag murders.”
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Selfless Slayer-The Co-ed Killer
Incarcerated instructor to the blind, with an IQ of 145 (for whatever that's worth), convicted serial killer Edmund Kemper is an ideal inmate in the California Medical Center. We know his conviction for the murder of ten human beings led to his incarceration, and his preference for killing, mutilating, and engaging in post-mortem taboo sex acts with young girls and college women, led to his new name: “The Co-ed Killer." But what turned him into the kind of person who could do such horrible things?
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: When Compassion is Omitted- The Boston Strangler Case
Mystery once abounded in the case of the “Boston Strangler” during the early 1960’s. Around the time of the crimes, authorities lacked any physical evidence linking the crime to Albert DeSalvo, the killer they ultimately convicted. He didn’t even fit the name. Monikers like “The Green Man” and “The Measuring Man” applied to him. So, there was still a cloud of uncertainty hanging over a case involving the deaths of thirteen women. Imagine the terror these women faced right before DeSalvo snuffed out their lives. DeSalvo’s level of irrationality must have been high. To not think about anything beyond extinguishing the very lives he held in his hands, made him an animal.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Marine Corps Stories: The Drone Plan
The spinning blades of the drone whirred with intensity. The cerulean brilliance of the morning sky was only enhanced by the presence of some small, pure-whte cumulus clouds. Each of the blades reflected the sunlight as the device raised up from the ground. Anyone looking up at the Yuma Marine Corps Air Base in Arizona couldn’t help but see the drone.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Serve
