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A review by xonrad
Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer by David Reichert
2.0
Interesting insight, not into a serial killer, but the author's mindset, and his flavour of hindsight.
When a person in authority uses objective references to female victims as "somebody's daughter" in a traditionalist attempt to humanise them... it becomes one of many socially conditioned responses that define the author/Sheriff, and many of such pre-programmed instances of his moral conditioning dominate throughout this text.
In short, the antithesis of objectivity lays within. Interesting as a psychological study in itself, but in no way unique.
The audio edition and the interview segments between the Sheriff and the killer are, by today's standards, unacceptable examples of "leading" almost to the extreme.
When a person in authority uses objective references to female victims as "somebody's daughter" in a traditionalist attempt to humanise them... it becomes one of many socially conditioned responses that define the author/Sheriff, and many of such pre-programmed instances of his moral conditioning dominate throughout this text.
In short, the antithesis of objectivity lays within. Interesting as a psychological study in itself, but in no way unique.
The audio edition and the interview segments between the Sheriff and the killer are, by today's standards, unacceptable examples of "leading" almost to the extreme.