Why do we have serial killers in this world of ours? Is not life hard enough? Now we also have to worry about someone out there going nuts and deciding to kill people for who knows what. Every now and then a new one turns up somewhere in this grand country of ours.
Why don’t we take a moment and consider some recent serial killers right here in America.
Let’s see, we’ve had John Wayne Gacy, the crazy clown killer, who liked to bury his victims under his house. And then there was good old Jefferey Dahmer who liked to keep body parts in his refrigerator. And let’s not forget our intellectual killer, the infamous Ted Bundy, of whom the Judge said, “You would have made a good lawyer.” He liked to lure college aged girls into his volkswagon before killing them. You’ve had The Green River Killer, The BTK Killer, and that guy who killed his whole family and left classical music playing in the house before he changed his identity and eventualy worked in a church. There was Richard Speck of Chicago, and The Boston strangler from, well, you know. How about The Zodiac Killer? Who liked to kill at random and then taunt the police with letters.
That was a great movie. I highly recommend that one.
Then, there was Henry Lucas, who said he killed over 200 women over a twenty year period in the midwest, and last but not least, Coral Watts, who liked to beat women to death and let their bodies dissolve in his bathtub. He also said he killed about 200 people. But, his real reason for killing was the thrill of the hunt and then the sudden attack.
That’s where our new friend, Charlie Wilson, comes in, because, he too, liked the thrill of the hunt. For him, killing was secondary. He was getting quite good at it. And with each new killing, he couldn’t wait for another. Maybe that’s the answer. The thrill or rush one gets after doing something that they’ve thought about doing for a