between this and putting up a confederate flag, she was one hell of a mayor
As a 12-year-old, Richard, or "Richie" as he was known to his family, was strongly influenced by his older cousin, Miguel "Mike" Ramirez,[12] a decorated Green Beret combat veteran who himself had already become a serial killer and a rapist during his time in the United States Army in the Vietnam War.
I was just thinking about how the Vietnam War propaganda dehumanized people and how just soldiers became serial killers, but that propaganda was going on in US soil too.
Would it be a stretch to correlate the Vietnam War with the uptick of serial killers in the US at the time?
Many lesser known serial killers have been vets of the war. I don’t know if they have been proven to actually fight in it. But it doesn’t matter because when all your buddies brag about raping some woman or burning down a village because he felt insulted, you normalize that forever.
We don’t really see a serial killer phenomenon with the war on terror. But we do see a mass shooter phenomenon. Again, it’s the propaganda, dehumanization, and sanitization of violence.
This is completely speculation on my part, but I think there is a serial killer phenomenon in the war on terror. It’s just not as visible in the imperial core because for the last 20 years you could sign up to a voluntary military and then go on a spree of whatever depravity you desired and it would be covered up or ignored
It’s very possible he was part of the Phoenix Program. It was basically a brutalization program led by the CIA. Operatives from both South Vietnam and the west were authorized to kill, torture, rape, or anything in between on anyone who was SUSPECTED of being a communist. These were not soldiers. Their plan was neutralize any civilian or non-combatant who had a helping hand in supporting the north. These are the heroes. These are the people who you’re supposed to feel bad for when they’re “spat on” and called baby killers.
If someone made a show or book about a US government sanctioned serial killer military squad, you’d think it’s some dog shit issue from The Suicide Squad or Vertigo.
It’s wild when you’re such a fuckup that Hexbear is saying “It was bad you made the cops’ job harder”
“Serial killer on the loose” is pretty much the only situation I want to see cops succeed
They’re actually laughably bad at it. The only reason they usually catch people is from the forensics team and even then they usually fuck up the crime scene immediately
You would think a group of armed thugs would at least be expected to handle competition on their turf but they can't even get that right.
Sometimes the killers get caught just because they are arrogant narcissists. Like BTK got nabbed because he was taunting the police with letters so they asked him to mail them a digital letter. Dude used the pc at his church. They were able to trace the digital footprint because that monster was so sure of his bullshit.
he quick-formatted a floppy that had files with his name on it and they undeleted them iirc
I mean, I’m not going to chastise cops when they do their nominal jobs of “protecting and serving.” But not only is that just a marketing slogan with no legal basis, most of the time cops don’t even do that shit. And the ones investigating these crimes are detectives anyway. They’re still evil for various reasons, but at the very least they’re not beat cops who jerk off every time they give a speeding ticket.
I was 10 at the time he was on the loose. Scared the shit out of me. Rumor was he chose houses near freeways. I lived near a freeway. He picked yellow houses. I lived in a yellow house. He killed two people in my city, one within walking distance, and another a town over. At the time I had a paper route and for some reason my parents made me keep it. Ten year old riding around in the dark while there's a killer on the loose. Really fucked me up is that he killed that one person n San Francisco while I was visiting my grandparents in Santa Cruz. My dad told me the only cool thing the cops ever did was taking their time to rescue ramirez from the stomping he got in east LA
“He could’ve left us a signed signature ,” Frank Salerno, one of the lead investigators on the case, says in the docuseries.
