Back before I had kids I loved watching movies and television shows that involved murder, crimes, and psychological thrillers. I loved the action and suspense. Once in a while, I'd find a good movie with a great twist.
In the paper there is a weekly article called The Justice Story. Those stories always fascinated me, as did reading any article or book involving detectives and mysteries.
I remember reading about a guy, Andrew Cunanan, who was wanted for going on a killing spree across the US. Then it was all over the headlines that fashion designer Gianni Versace had been killed. It turned out he was killed by Cunanan. That was a very interesting story.
I read a lot of the articles about the OJ Simpson murder trial. I watched a little bit of the trial, but mainly read about it. He had the best california criminal lawyers and it paid off. He was acquitted, even though it's pretty likely that he was guilty.
When I was about 16 years old, there was a big murder in my hometown of Little Falls, NY. A local jeweler, Greg Jouben, was murdered in his shop. I was at the doctor's office not too far away when it happened. His murderer turned out to be a serial killer name Gary Evans. He had an abusive childhood and grew up to rob antique shops along with killing five people. He was even in jail and befriended the Son of Sam killer, David Berkowitz, which is another fascinating crime tale. After Evans was arraigned in Little Falls, he kicked the window out of the window he was riding in and jumped off a bridge into the Hudson River. When his body was found, he had a handcuff key in his sinus cavity and a razor blade taped to his ankle. His story was plastered all over the local papers. It's amazing they even caught him. It was really big news for a small town.
The Los Angeles Times website even has a special section devoted to crime stories. It's really awful reading them. There's tons of stories too. Los Angeles criminal defense lawyers must be pretty busy.
Those stories are all fascinating, but really scary. All these criminals were once innocent little babies who were born to someone. It makes you wonder what goes wrong to drive them to grow up and have such a disrespect for the law and to commit such awful crimes. Abusive childhoods and bad parents are a big part of it, but some people grow up to lead productive, honest lives despite having bad childhoods, or not the greatest parents. The opposite is also true. Kids with great childhoods end up committing awful crimes.
Since having kids, psychological thrillers are a thing of the past. Now I prefer comedies, romance and cartoons. It's funny how things change when kids come along.
In the paper there is a weekly article called The Justice Story. Those stories always fascinated me, as did reading any article or book involving detectives and mysteries.
I remember reading about a guy, Andrew Cunanan, who was wanted for going on a killing spree across the US. Then it was all over the headlines that fashion designer Gianni Versace had been killed. It turned out he was killed by Cunanan. That was a very interesting story.
I read a lot of the articles about the OJ Simpson murder trial. I watched a little bit of the trial, but mainly read about it. He had the best california criminal lawyers and it paid off. He was acquitted, even though it's pretty likely that he was guilty.
When I was about 16 years old, there was a big murder in my hometown of Little Falls, NY. A local jeweler, Greg Jouben, was murdered in his shop. I was at the doctor's office not too far away when it happened. His murderer turned out to be a serial killer name Gary Evans. He had an abusive childhood and grew up to rob antique shops along with killing five people. He was even in jail and befriended the Son of Sam killer, David Berkowitz, which is another fascinating crime tale. After Evans was arraigned in Little Falls, he kicked the window out of the window he was riding in and jumped off a bridge into the Hudson River. When his body was found, he had a handcuff key in his sinus cavity and a razor blade taped to his ankle. His story was plastered all over the local papers. It's amazing they even caught him. It was really big news for a small town.
The Los Angeles Times website even has a special section devoted to crime stories. It's really awful reading them. There's tons of stories too. Los Angeles criminal defense lawyers must be pretty busy.
Those stories are all fascinating, but really scary. All these criminals were once innocent little babies who were born to someone. It makes you wonder what goes wrong to drive them to grow up and have such a disrespect for the law and to commit such awful crimes. Abusive childhoods and bad parents are a big part of it, but some people grow up to lead productive, honest lives despite having bad childhoods, or not the greatest parents. The opposite is also true. Kids with great childhoods end up committing awful crimes.
Since having kids, psychological thrillers are a thing of the past. Now I prefer comedies, romance and cartoons. It's funny how things change when kids come along.
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