Thanks, Dabbs, for putting up this thread.
If you knew in advance that HK was going to come on, I'm sure you must have had an inkling you would see me shortly thereafter.

Yes, I've had a fascination with serial killers for years - trying to figure out what made them tick.

I could answer everybody who has posted here, because I am taking something from what each one has had to say. Yes, Imzadi, I have watched those "Most Evil" programmes and I think they are what has finally given me the answers I have been seeking.... that is ...enough to satisfy my curiosity for the moment anyway.

Yes, I watched Forensic Detectives and FBI Files on a nightly basis for years. Ted Bundy still fascinates me because everybody that knew him agrees that he was a charming person to know. There is another, BTK, or letters to that effect, that was revolting ..... as was the guy on whom Hannibal Lector is based.

But, like Rain...... and I think it has dated from roughly since around the time I joined IS...... I have lost the fascination. Just will not watch any of those programmes now. The phase just has run its course. I am conscious, as Lavella points out, that energy going into that kind of thing is not the best.

So I imagine, with you too, dear Dabbs, you will wake up one morning and suddenly you will say to yourself - "You know, I just have no further interest in these guys. There's nothing more I want to know about them."

BTW, I don't agree with your theory that they wanted to put something right with the world. I believe they just enjoyed torturing and murdering for it's own sake - they got off on other people's suffering. They gained what was to them the ultimate sense of power. Maybe due to the fact, as Rain says, that they were missing part of the brain that would have given them the ability to have remorse or empathise with others....maybe this was their way of attempting to compensate for that lack. Who knows?

I realise what I have just said there is a gross over-simplification of the issues. Obviously there are books to be written yet and lots of further scientific and psychological research to be done.

Anyway, thanks again Dabbs.

Obviously, theres' a place in our development, for exploring energy in all it's forms.

All the best, dear Dabbs.

You are not alone
Noreen