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Evil Has A Name: The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation
Paul Holes, Peter McDonnell, Jim Clemente
4.44 AVERAGE
274 reviews for:
Evil Has A Name: The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation
Paul Holes, Peter McDonnell, Jim Clemente
4.44 AVERAGE
Great audiobook/podcast narrated by one of the main investigators of the Golden State Killer. It's still one of the craziest serial killer stories of all time, mostly due to how recently he was apprehended.
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Excellent! I really enjoyed this and the various narratives from detectives, scientists, profilers and victims was a wonderful addition. Listened to in one sitting!
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I've wanted to get my hands on this audiobook for years. Since I read I'll be Gone in the Dark.
This was a great audiobook, well structured, lots of facts but done in a way that didn't feel like an overload. I liked that so many of the real people were on the audiobook, especially victims, it made it all the more real. Highly recommend as a high quality true crime work.
This was a great audiobook, well structured, lots of facts but done in a way that didn't feel like an overload. I liked that so many of the real people were on the audiobook, especially victims, it made it all the more real. Highly recommend as a high quality true crime work.
Paraphrasing: 'It's not just the female victims that need counselling, but their husbands, boyfriends, fathers, brothers and sons'.
The golden state killer was a man who deliberately targeted couples. He would often get the woman to tie up her husband, and then make the man watch while he abused her. It's interesting how compliant the victims, both male and female, tended to be. He was nearly always outnumbered two to one, and almost never used a gun, but instead simply grabbed a kitchen knife from the victims own kitchen, or a garden tool from the garden or shed. He had a close call when he was arrested for shoplifting, but wasn't investigated any further. Shoplifting isn't such a big deal right? So he wasn't caught until he was 70. The things he was shop-lifting were things like hammers, and dog repellent. Guess what he was using them for.
It occurs to me that if the male partners of the victims had a bit more toxic masculinity, he would not have gotten away with it for very long. Some of the men where even athletic. But they offered no resistance. He was like a wolf among lambs. If most modern men are this docile, this domesticated, then when a freak appears, there's nobody to stop him. And the police take too long. Men need to be men. In fact they need to be monsters. Because it takes a monster to stop a monster. Men should be OK with killing, because there are people like the golden state killer, who would greatly benefit humanity by their absence. If men aren't raised to be strong and tough and mean as Bonnie Tyler might say, then sooner or later you will find a wolf among the lambs. A fox amongst the chickens. It's going to happen. You can't keep all the snakes out of your little garden of Eden forever.
The golden state killer was a man who deliberately targeted couples. He would often get the woman to tie up her husband, and then make the man watch while he abused her. It's interesting how compliant the victims, both male and female, tended to be. He was nearly always outnumbered two to one, and almost never used a gun, but instead simply grabbed a kitchen knife from the victims own kitchen, or a garden tool from the garden or shed. He had a close call when he was arrested for shoplifting, but wasn't investigated any further. Shoplifting isn't such a big deal right? So he wasn't caught until he was 70. The things he was shop-lifting were things like hammers, and dog repellent. Guess what he was using them for.
It occurs to me that if the male partners of the victims had a bit more toxic masculinity, he would not have gotten away with it for very long. Some of the men where even athletic. But they offered no resistance. He was like a wolf among lambs. If most modern men are this docile, this domesticated, then when a freak appears, there's nobody to stop him. And the police take too long. Men need to be men. In fact they need to be monsters. Because it takes a monster to stop a monster. Men should be OK with killing, because there are people like the golden state killer, who would greatly benefit humanity by their absence. If men aren't raised to be strong and tough and mean as Bonnie Tyler might say, then sooner or later you will find a wolf among the lambs. A fox amongst the chickens. It's going to happen. You can't keep all the snakes out of your little garden of Eden forever.
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Things I really liked - taking advantage of the audio format to have so much of the narrative being comprised of interviews. The focus on the victims and taking care to paint them as humans.
Thing I’m just so over - calling humans irredeemably evil. It’s lazy and incomplete and just too easy.
Thing I’m just so over - calling humans irredeemably evil. It’s lazy and incomplete and just too easy.
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