Word: dahmer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vernon Dahmer Sr. was probably one of them. In January 1966 two carloads of thugs tossed lighted jugs of gasoline into his Hattiesburg home. (In order to encourage blacks to vote, he had announced earlier that day that they could pay their poll taxes at his shop.) He shot at the attackers while his family escaped, but Dahmer died of smoke inhalation. Although four men were convicted in the case, several others escaped trial. And the purported mastermind, former Klan Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers, was freed after two mistrials...
...panic has eased. Cunanan is a name that echoes only in nightmares, like Bundy, like Dahmer, another lesson in how a monster can put on a pretty face...
Copycat, directed by Jon Amiel (The Singing Detective, Sommersby), means to be a Greatest Hits album of atrocities. Its murderer has eyes to replicate the artistry of such superstar psychos as Son of Sam, Jeffrey Dahmer, the Boston and Hillside Stranglers--that crowd. His pursuer is a crafty cop (Holly Hunter). His nemesis is a psychologist (Sigourney Weaver) who studies the serial killer's mentality. And his hero is a recently arrested multiple murderer (cleverly played by saloon crooner Harry Connick Jr. as if he were a more deranged cousin of Jim Varney's goony Ernest character...
...claimed his gun was stolen by a white man who went on a rampage, that the killer was a black man who looks like him and shares his name, and that he is the victim of a murder conspiracy linked to the prison slaying of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Ferguson called just one defense witness, a detective who already had taken the stand during the prosecution, when a dozen victims testified that Ferguson shot them...
...judgment is debatable. Says Kuby: ``They should have found him incompetent and packed him off to a mental institution.'' But it was in keeping with current judicial practice--and with the belief of many Americans that an asylum is too good for the likes of Ferguson or, say, Jeffrey Dahmer...