Word: seriality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That's a good bet. Public fascination with serial killers is at an all-time high. Spectators sat in a courtroom in Gainesville, Florida, last week to get a look at Danny Rolling, who terrorized the city with his slaying of college students 3 1/2 years ago, as jurors were deciding to recommend that he be put to death. Meanwhile, television viewers are tuning into interviews with Jeffrey Dahmer, the Milwaukee cannibal who dismembered 17 young men, and with David ("Son of Sam") Berkowitz, the lovers' lane stalker who shot and killed six men and women in New York City...
Even for the increasingly sensational network magazine shows, the ghoulish display last week was something of a milestone. In addition to the Manson hour -- the first weekly episode of ABC's new Turning Point series -- serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and his father were brought together for a session on Dateline NBC. CBS's 48 Hours spent another hour exploring the case of Russell Obremski, convicted of two Oregon murders in 1969 and recently freed on parole. And NBC's Now served up its own creepy sociopath: a man in prison for kidnapping untold numbers of children from their...
America's romance with real-life mass murder is going mainstream. Two years ago, serial-killer trading cards sparked national outrage. Now Jeffrey Dahmer and Charles Manson co-star with Diane Sawyer and Jane Pauley. Even eggheads have got the bug, thanks to a serial-killer cover on the New York Review of Books. Hey, there's gold in them thar psychos...
Cutting-edge typographers in California produced a typeface dubbed Manson. For $95, art directors can set their serial-killer Zeitgeist essays in Manson Regular, Manson Alternate or Manson Bold (all officially redubbed Mason after criticism...
...traumatic experience, certainly, but it should be only a temporary one, not a way of life. Prisoners kept too long tend to embrace the criminal culture, its distorted values and beliefs; they have little choice -- prison is their life. There are some prisoners who cannot be returned to society -- serial killers, serial rapists, professional hit men and the like -- but the monsters who need to die in prison are rare exceptions in the criminal landscape...