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These documentaries are quite popular with Netflix etc. I am fascinated with them, and also podcasts.
Does anyone else get excited when a new one pops up to watch?
I am currently on the Night Stalker. |
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"These documentaries are quite popular with Netflix etc. I am fascinated with them, and also podcasts.
Does anyone else get excited when a new one pops up to watch?
I am currently on the Night Stalker. "
Started the Night Stalker last night, very very interesting  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Funny how someone can watch documentaries about real life serial killers eating a bowl of popcorn but freaks out at TikTok videos of snakes or animals jumping out quite innocently   |
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"Funny how someone can watch documentaries about real life serial killers eating a bowl of popcorn but freaks out at TikTok videos of snakes or animals jumping out quite innocently "
I reckon I could take on a serial killer....even better a snatcher. He would get bored before I would  |
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"Oh I think I am going to watch the Night Stalker...right now I've been watching I Am A Killer; quite interesting and some strange back stories! "
I enjoyed I am a killer too. I realised I would make a rubbish detective, as I believed every one of the guys and women's stories  especially the one where the woman murdered her boyfriend claiming he wanted her to do it.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The night stalker was mad. I make sure I have locked all my windows and doors like 3 times before I go to bed. Have you tried the serpent on itv I think. Not a documentary but more of a drama. It’s based on a true story. Pretty good so far |
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"You should try the podcast All Killa No Filla, if you are into serial killers and comedians "
I don't watch anything at all, but I follow a bunch of podcasts on the subject, including All Killa No Filla. I prefer My Favourite Murder, RedHanded, and Jenson & Holes: The Murder Squad, though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Love them, especially when they get caught and you can then see the actual police interviews.
Good one on YouTube called The Wrath of Jodie, also one on Netflix called The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez but that’s quite harrowing and heartbreaking |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Not so much Serial Killers, but I do have a bit of a morbid fascination with The Holocaust
I had a PM late last night
"I was just thinking about you, I'm watching a programme about Auschwitz"
It's nice to be remembered |
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I find them really interesting. I'm hugely interested (but not to the point I'd go into higher education or anything) in the nature/nurture element. How peoples life experience led them to where they are and how they came to do what they did.
There are some that make me sick to my stomach and others where I can genuinely understand how it happened and I feel for them in my heart. Those who got let down by the system and found themselves in a "their life or mine" situation, and I really believe I was lucky it wasn't me having to make that choice.
It has helped me understand that I not necessarily went through stuff I went through because of who I am, it wasn't ME as a person that was the target, but moreso me as the victim of circumstance. That if it wasn't me it would have been someone else. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Love them, especially when they get caught and you can then see the actual police interviews.
Good one on YouTube called The Wrath of Jodie, also one on Netflix called The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez but that’s quite harrowing and heartbreaking"
I managed one episode of The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez and found it too upsetting to watch more.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Night stalker was okay disappointed with the ending thou, evil genius was okay too. The bundy one was class and the old white chapel series was a good watch x |
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"Oh I think I am going to watch the Night Stalker...right now I've been watching I Am A Killer; quite interesting and some strange back stories!
I enjoyed I am a killer too. I realised I would make a rubbish detective, as I believed every one of the guys and women's stories especially the one where the woman murdered her boyfriend claiming he wanted her to do it. "
Oh my days that back story and girl was so weird!! Just watched the episode with Joseph and I was traumatised hearing about his upbringing  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I'm so glad I'm not alone. Love them. My family think I'm morbid and weird but I find them incredibly interesting although often disturbing. Night Stalker was fascinating. |
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"Oh I think I am going to watch the Night Stalker...right now I've been watching I Am A Killer; quite interesting and some strange back stories!
I enjoyed I am a killer too. I realised I would make a rubbish detective, as I believed every one of the guys and women's stories especially the one where the woman murdered her boyfriend claiming he wanted her to do it.
Oh my days that back story and girl was so weird!! Just watched the episode with Joseph and I was traumatised hearing about his upbringing "
He's one of the ones my heart went out to. So so failed by so many people. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Oh I think I am going to watch the Night Stalker...right now I've been watching I Am A Killer; quite interesting and some strange back stories!
I enjoyed I am a killer too. I realised I would make a rubbish detective, as I believed every one of the guys and women's stories especially the one where the woman murdered her boyfriend claiming he wanted her to do it. "
But I was torn on that too... I believed her at the beginning |
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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago
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The investigator, unbelievable,the devil next door,dirty John,real detective,the ripper,the innocent man,evil genius,the keepers,mind Hunter, inside the criminal mind, the staircase
All a few of which I've watched, there's a lot more |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I am pleased there are other people with morbid curiosities
Oh I love my crime, I've read so much stuff on different serial killers and spree murderers haha"
It is fascinating isnt it. Many do have fucked up childhoods, which is sad |
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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago
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"I am pleased there are other people with morbid curiosities
Oh I love my crime, I've read so much stuff on different serial killers and spree murderers haha
It is fascinating isnt it. Many do have fucked up childhoods, which is sad "
That's why mind Hunter was so good, not just the series but the actual book, how they looked at the whole nature/nurture thing as to why someone could commit these crimes |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Love them, especially when they get caught and you can then see the actual police interviews.
Good one on YouTube called The Wrath of Jodie, also one on Netflix called The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez but that’s quite harrowing and heartbreaking
I managed one episode of The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez and found it too upsetting to watch more. "
Very sad and upsetting..there was a bit at the very end that reported in a frighteningly similar case which happened again in pretty much the same area a short while later too
Sadistic f**kers..makes my blood boil see |
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By *dinMan
over a year ago
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"These documentaries are quite popular with Netflix etc. I am fascinated with them, and also podcasts.
Does anyone else get excited when a new one pops up to watch?
I am currently on the Night Stalker. "
So let's see, you said
Does anyone else get excited when a new one pops up to watch?
Not sure we are talking tv programmes here, are we? |
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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago
London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact |
Is the fascination more of a female thing? When I moved in with each of my past three exes, I looked through their book collections and noticed that all had at least one book on serial killers. Whenever I've watched a new documentary series, it has always been a female who has recommended it to me too. I haven't noticed any of my male friends being as enthusiastic regarding the genre. Same with Crime Watch. My mum loved it but it also made her paranoid  |
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I’m not keen on horror or gore so most of them I avoid or I’d be under the bed!!
I will watch serial killer documentaries as someone mentioned earlier - The Holocaust, Fred & Rosemary West, Shipman etc
Currently enjoy The Serpent |
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The Nightstalker was really good and so interesting to hear the people who did the investigation telling the story. It's unbelievable how many chances were lost to catch him. It did lack any real detail about the motivation and background of the killer though - I felt like I wanted to know more about how he came to be such a monster.
Mindhunter is really good too, but unfortunately it seems they're not filming any more series. It feels like it's just been abandoned half-way through. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I’m not keen on horror or gore so most of them I avoid or I’d be under the bed!!
I will watch serial killer documentaries as someone mentioned earlier - The Holocaust, Fred & Rosemary West, Shipman etc
Currently enjoy The Serpent "
it got mixed up the serpent the way it jumped back and forth |
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"Was hooked by Mindhunter about the FBI profiling.......all started with Ed Kempnee the co-Ed killer.......
Edmund Kemper that dude was a giant!"
I saw a documentary about Ed Kemper talking about his killings, it featuring the actual footage that was emulated in Mind Hunter, that dude was an enigma with a calm persona and a certain intelligence, he helped the profiling process get started as he displayed all the things you expect a cold blooded calculating cool cat of a murder to be
Fascinating series, they did the same thing on Jeffrey Dahmer, asking them to self analyse, really fascinating |
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"I’m not keen on horror or gore so most of them I avoid or I’d be under the bed!!
I will watch serial killer documentaries as someone mentioned earlier - The Holocaust, Fred & Rosemary West, Shipman etc
Currently enjoy The Serpent it got mixed up the serpent the way it jumped back and forth "
Watch on catch up - it does make sense why they jump about but worth it |
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If you can find the documentary I’ll Be Gone In The Dark, also a book title by Michelle McNamara about the Golden State Killer it is very much worth a watch. It’s very much a no holds bared watching, scary and horrifying in some parts but how it ends is both a tragedy and a triumph |
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"I used to have a macabre fascination as a teen but I find it all too disturbing now. Give me a good dystopian film any day
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I'm with you on this. I have watched one or two and then it seemed to me to be reducing the brutal deaths of others to entertainment.
For every documentary or series there are real victims and destroyed families.
Reading newspaper reports is enough for me. I don't want to know the finer detail ....... it's too much to take.
I haven't watched any for years now.
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"Used to have tons of serial killer books in the 90s.. unfortunately mother burnt them all..said they were a bad influence on me. I think personally she was fed up with always having to clean up all the blood..
I saw a documentary about a bloke who killed a woman in a shower, he ran a motel so it was quite easy for him to clean up after, he was close to his mother too u like your serial killer documentary _andybeach "
I’m fascinated by their psyche |
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"Used to have tons of serial killer books in the 90s.. unfortunately mother burnt them all..said they were a bad influence on me. I think personally she was fed up with always having to clean up all the blood..
I saw a documentary about a bloke who killed a woman in a shower, he ran a motel so it was quite easy for him to clean up after, he was close to his mother too u like your serial killer documentary _andybeach
I’m fascinated by their psyche "
they all seem normal at one time and then hey a button gets pressed and they enjoy it |
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"I do find murder/serial killer documentaries strangely fascinating. I am currently watching ‘I am a Killer’ "
Yes we are currently watching I am a killer" rather crazy some of the story's, and alot of them does blame child hood and upbringing x |
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"Casefiles - anything really on sky crime+investigation.
That Netflix documentary on the NightStalker is crazy! Especially the ending! - defo worth a watch for those not seen it! "
Love casefiles. Although not been a new one for weeks. I found few good ones like them but finding im very fussy when it comes to voices I can listen to |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Love them, especially when they get caught and you can then see the actual police interviews.
Good one on YouTube called The Wrath of Jodie, also one on Netflix called The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez but that’s quite harrowing and heartbreaking
I managed one episode of The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez and found it too upsetting to watch more.
Very sad and upsetting..there was a bit at the very end that reported in a frighteningly similar case which happened again in pretty much the same area a short while later too
Sadistic f**kers..makes my blood boil see "
I forced myself to watch Gabriel Fernández but it was horrific. The fucking mum! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"All killa no filla podcast!!!!!!!
You will love it!! Awesome!!
Also try, Man in the window. Captivating!!"
All killa no filla is great. I am working my way through them. |
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"Love watching true crime stuff Bailey Sarin and Eleanor Neale on you tube.
Excellent book just released 'How to solve a murder', its excellent "
I havent tried any YouTube stuff yet, but I really should |
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Loved the docu-dramas that were all done within a few years of each other - This is Personal (Yorkshire Ripper), See no Evil (Moors murders), Doctor Death (Shipman) etc. There was one about Peter Manual a few years ago, was very good too. |
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"Love watching true crime stuff Bailey Sarin and Eleanor Neale on you tube.
Excellent book just released 'How to solve a murder', its excellent "
I love Bailey Sarin. Murder, Mystery and Makeup Monday  |
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"Love watching true crime stuff Bailey Sarin and Eleanor Neale on you tube.
Excellent book just released 'How to solve a murder', its excellent
I love Bailey Sarin. Murder, Mystery and Makeup Monday "
Absolutely agree she’s awesome I get totally hooked |
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"Love watching true crime stuff Bailey Sarin and Eleanor Neale on you tube.
Excellent book just released 'How to solve a murder', its excellent
I love Bailey Sarin. Murder, Mystery and Makeup Monday
Absolutely agree she’s awesome I get totally hooked "
Doing the " Theme tune" in my head..shana shaa shana shaa...
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The investigator, unbelievable,the devil next door,dirty John,real detective,the ripper,the innocent man,evil genius,the keepers,mind Hunter, inside the criminal mind, the staircase
All a few of which I've watched, there's a lot more "
 definitely with you on those. Although I think I've become quite macabre when the sleep meditation doesn't work but put snapped on and I'm off. Think it something to do with the pitch of some of the American accents. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"There's tons of good true crime stuff on YouTube as well.
That Chapter is really good.
Love Mike from That Chapter. Brightens up my Tuesday and Friday "
Me too. "And in this old video..." |
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"There's tons of good true crime stuff on YouTube as well.
That Chapter is really good.
Love Mike from That Chapter. Brightens up my Tuesday and Friday
Me too. "And in this old video..." "
Pretty much wears the same shirt in each |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"The investigator, unbelievable,the devil next door,dirty John,real detective,the ripper,the innocent man,evil genius,the keepers,mind Hunter, inside the criminal mind, the staircase
All a few of which I've watched, there's a lot more
definitely with you on those. Although I think I've become quite macabre when the sleep meditation doesn't work but put snapped on and I'm off. Think it something to do with the pitch of some of the American accents. "
With snapped, I think it is the narrators voice |
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"Oh I think I am going to watch the Night Stalker...right now I've been watching I Am A Killer; quite interesting and some strange back stories!
I enjoyed I am a killer too. I realised I would make a rubbish detective, as I believed every one of the guys and women's stories especially the one where the woman murdered her boyfriend claiming he wanted her to do it.
Oh my days that back story and girl was so weird!! Just watched the episode with Joseph and I was traumatised hearing about his upbringing "
Yes, I was the same.
Heartbreaking. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Has anyone seen Dear Zachary? I won't watch it as apparently it's incredibly upsetting.
Anyone watch On The Case with Paula Zahn? Lots on YouTube and Amazon prime. I really like it.
Abducted In Plain Sight on Netflix is great, but extremely extremely Wtf-inducing. |
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"Not so much Serial Killers, but I do have a bit of a morbid fascination with The Holocaust
I had a PM late last night
"I was just thinking about you, I'm watching a programme about Auschwitz"
It's nice to be remembered "
I went to Austwitz a couple of years ago it was really good in a strange, morbid way. It made it real if that makes sense. I would go back but do it at my own pace. Also Schindler's factory. Both heartbreaking, but worth a visit if you're interested in it |
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"These documentaries are quite popular with Netflix etc. I am fascinated with them, and also podcasts.
Does anyone else get excited when a new one pops up to watch?
I am currently on the Night Stalker. "
ooh loved that! I am watching I am a killer atm |
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I'm absolutely intrigued by the mindset of a serial killer, some great ones on Netflix! A very good friend of mine stared as a certain serial killer in the "Conversations with a serial killer" series, but I won't say which one as I'm working on getting him and his wife into the scene lol |
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"I'm absolutely intrigued by the mindset of a serial killer, some great ones on Netflix! A very good friend of mine stared as a certain serial killer in the "Conversations with a serial killer" series, but I won't say which one as I'm working on getting him and his wife into the scene lol"
You Want to swing with a serial killer |
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"I'm absolutely intrigued by the mindset of a serial killer, some great ones on Netflix! A very good friend of mine stared as a certain serial killer in the "Conversations with a serial killer" series, but I won't say which one as I'm working on getting him and his wife into the scene lol
You Want to swing with a serial killer "
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