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wackyteen
03/29/18 8:18:02 AM
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/03/28/the-parkland-shooter-has-fans-and-theyre-sending-him-letters-and-money/


Parkland shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz has been receiving volumes of fan mail at the Florida jail where he is being held.

In a pattern seen before with others accused of violent crimes, Cruz, who is charged with 17 counts of murder in the massacre at the school, has been sent sexually suggestive photographs, greeting cards, encouragement and other kind notes, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, which obtained copies of some of the missives.

Broward County Public Defender Howard Finkelstein, whose office represents Cruz, said he was concerned about Cruzs growing notoriety.

The letters shake me up because they are written by regular, everyday teenage girls from across the nation, he said. That scares me. Its perverted.

The Sun Sentinel showed a stack of hundreds of pages of photocopies of the letters Cruz has been sent.

Youre in a tough spot, Nik, and that is something I know, because Ive been there myself, one letter writer wrote Cruz. If you need something, I can mail to you ask. If you need to talk Ill listen.

On March 15, a person self-identified as an 18-year-old woman from Texas wrote: When I saw your picture on the television, something attracted me to you.

The letter was in an envelope decorated with hearts and happy faces, the Sentinel reported.

Your eyes are beautiful and the freckles on your face make you so handsome.

Another person purporting to be a woman sent Cruz nine suggestive photos, the newspaper reported.

Finkelstein told the Sentinel that the piles of letters to Cruz were unlike anything he has seen before.

In my 40 years as public defender, Ive never seen this many letters to a defendant, he said. Everyone now and then gets a few, but nothing like this.

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frozenshock
03/29/18 8:19:18 AM
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It's always like that for famous killers

Even Eliot Rodger has groupies now. He must be spinning in his grave, like "NOW girls want me????"
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_RETS_
03/29/18 8:20:14 AM
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This is one of the downsides of plastering mass killers' names and faces all over the god damn place following a tragedy. That shit really needs to stop. It is pretty much a certainty that keeping the killers anonymous will make a dent in mass killings.
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wackyteen
03/29/18 8:22:27 AM
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Well good thing is he will never see these letters
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VectorChaos
03/29/18 8:22:33 AM
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DsGYjeQ
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ssj3vegeta2
03/29/18 8:43:18 AM
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tremain07
03/29/18 8:44:25 AM
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wackyteen posted...
Youre in a tough spot, Nik, and that is something I know, because Ive been there myself,

Did this person just admit to comitting mass murder and somehow has not been caught and arrested?
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ledbowman
03/29/18 8:44:46 AM
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De Evolution
03/29/18 8:47:29 AM
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ssj3vegeta2 posted...
Kids are stupid as fuck


Women you mean. This only happens with women.
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Tupacrulez
03/29/18 8:51:10 AM
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De Evolution posted...
ssj3vegeta2 posted...
Kids are stupid as fuck


Women you mean. This only happens with women.


Fuck no it don't.

Anyway, this shit happens, is reported on, and we wonder why it keeps happening.
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SpoiltTrouser
03/29/18 8:55:08 AM
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I met him at a charity do once. He was incredibly down to earth and VERY funny.
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bloodydeath0
03/29/18 9:01:26 AM
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wackyteen posted...
The letters shake me up because they are written by regular, everyday teenage girls from across the nation,

lol. no.
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Tmaster148
03/29/18 9:01:30 AM
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This is simply what American culture has become. We idolize shooters.
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Sunhawk
03/29/18 9:06:56 AM
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The guy who did that school shooting is getting fan mail, and girls who like him? Does this usually happen after American shootings (where the gunperson(s) are still alive)?

Although, Bonnie and Clyde were superstars back in the day. People kept taking momentos from where the two had died, and one person even sawed off a finger from one of them, I think.

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Caution999
03/29/18 9:09:47 AM
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This is why the media shouldn't be throwing his name out there. It's the underrated situation in all of this.

These murderers are being glorified by the media. We need to take away their names and give them numbers after something like this. Media doesn't acknowledge their real name.

Didn't the VA Tech shooter want to be remembered like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold? Copy Cat shooters will want to copy this and become infamous. STOP GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANT.
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frozenshock
03/29/18 9:13:15 AM
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Caution999 posted...
This is why the media shouldn't be throwing his name out there. It's the underrated situation in all of this.

These murderers are being glorified by the media. We need to take away their names and give them numbers after something like this. Media doesn't acknowledge their real name.

Didn't the VA Tech shooter want to be remembered like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold? Copy Cat shooters will want to copy this and become infamous. STOP GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANT.


Meh, that's not going to happen you know. People will always be morbidly fascinated by killers. If the media doesn't report on them people will find other sources on google to indulge on them.
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A_Good_Boy
03/29/18 9:13:43 AM
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Even Capn Circus was giving that dude compliments, calling him handsome, and saying people should be sympathetic to him.
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Tmaster148
03/29/18 9:13:55 AM
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Caution999 posted...
This is why the media shouldn't be throwing his name out there. It's the underrated situation in all of this.

These murderers are being glorified by the media. We need to take away their names and give them numbers after something like this. Media doesn't acknowledge their real name.

Didn't the VA Tech shooter want to be remembered like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold? Copy Cat shooters will want to copy this and become infamous. STOP GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANT.


But this way people might buy more guns.
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thronedfire2
03/29/18 9:14:07 AM
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Caution999 posted...
This is why the media shouldn't be throwing his name out there. It's the underrated situation in all of this.

These murderers are being glorified by the media. We need to take away their names and give them numbers after something like this. Media doesn't acknowledge their real name.

Didn't the VA Tech shooter want to be remembered like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold? Copy Cat shooters will want to copy this and become infamous. STOP GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANT.


So you wanna censor the media but not control guns?
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Alexanaxela
03/29/18 9:16:47 AM
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i'm glad the news reported this to give the next guy even more cause to do it
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frozenshock
03/29/18 9:18:55 AM
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Alexanaxela posted...
i'm glad the news reported this to give the next guy even more cause to do it


Idk... honestly, I don't think mass shooters really think "oohhh that last guy was in the media! I wanna be famous so i'm gonna kill a lot of people!"
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_RETS_
03/29/18 9:21:17 AM
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thronedfire2 posted...
Caution999 posted...
This is why the media shouldn't be throwing his name out there. It's the underrated situation in all of this.

These murderers are being glorified by the media. We need to take away their names and give them numbers after something like this. Media doesn't acknowledge their real name.

Didn't the VA Tech shooter want to be remembered like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold? Copy Cat shooters will want to copy this and become infamous. STOP GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANT.


So you wanna censor the media but not control guns?


Those things don't have to be mutually exclusive. But if the media wants to do their part, they will keep killers anonymous. Reporting their face and name and details of their life constantly after a tragedy has no potential for good and only potential for harm.

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Jagr_68
03/29/18 9:21:51 AM
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frozenshock posted...
Caution999 posted...
This is why the media shouldn't be throwing his name out there. It's the underrated situation in all of this.

These murderers are being glorified by the media. We need to take away their names and give them numbers after something like this. Media doesn't acknowledge their real name.

Didn't the VA Tech shooter want to be remembered like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold? Copy Cat shooters will want to copy this and become infamous. STOP GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANT.


Meh, that's not going to happen you know. People will always be morbidly fascinated by killers. If the media doesn't report on them people will find other sources on google to indulge on them.


Just to add on this, there's also psychological factors at hand that have to be considered for analysis. This kid didn't just wake up one morning and decided to acquire the entire arsenal from Predator at 8am so he could start a rampage an hour later.
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chrono625
03/29/18 9:26:23 AM
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Remember when rolling stone magazine glorified the Boston bomber?
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Gafemage
03/29/18 9:28:54 AM
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Orthopox12
03/29/18 9:31:49 AM
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Have you ever seen Natural Born Killers?
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ThyCorndog
03/29/18 9:33:18 AM
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everyone loves a bad boy
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CelestialVoices
03/29/18 9:36:42 AM
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gross
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Kanaya413
03/29/18 9:37:37 AM
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Jesus Christ
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Dark_Spiret
03/29/18 10:03:40 AM
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this isnt a new thing.
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yusiko
03/29/18 10:07:26 AM
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The survivors are insulted for wanting to find a way to get school shootings to stop

While the killer is getting fan mail

America is a fucked up place
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tremain07
03/29/18 10:29:58 AM
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yusiko posted...
The survivors are insulted for wanting to find a way to get school shootings to stop

While the killer is getting fan mail

America is a fucked up place

See, the ugly truth about America is, we love violence and we love being angry so combine the two and you can get a heated argument for something as simple as how people wake up in the morning.
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jpenny2
03/29/18 10:41:05 AM
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I know stuff like this has happened before, but I'd like to think that in 2018 people wouldn't be sick enough to send fan mail to a guy who shot up a school and killed kids. What the fuck is wrong with people?
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chrono625
03/29/18 11:51:24 AM
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Sparksfanboy posted...
FWIH it happens to female serial killers too.


Yep. Casey Anthony could get it.
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Volkswagen_Bros
03/29/18 11:54:08 AM
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I don't get it. Dude looks like a neanderthal. He's ugly as shit.
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P4wn4g3
03/29/18 12:04:13 PM
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Well hopefully the PD just forwards them to the FBI so they can be put on a watchlist.
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Antifar
03/29/18 12:06:22 PM
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Healthy culture
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Resolution
03/29/18 12:07:20 PM
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Volkswagen_Bros posted...
I don't get it. Dude looks like a neanderthal. He's ugly as shit.


Didn't stop people from oogling over Elliot Rodger
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P4wn4g3
03/29/18 12:15:23 PM
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Honestly I think the media coverage has a lot to do with it. We worship the media in this country.
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03/29/18 12:18:14 PM
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DragonGirlYuki
03/29/18 12:19:32 PM
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Media loves getting views and clicks. Of course they will publish stuff if it gets people watching even if it might cause a copycat or mislead people by over sensationlizing something.
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Holy_Cloud105
03/29/18 12:22:24 PM
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frozenshock posted...
Alexanaxela posted...
i'm glad the news reported this to give the next guy even more cause to do it


Idk... honestly, I don't think mass shooters really think "oohhh that last guy was in the media! I wanna be famous so i'm gonna kill a lot of people!"

That's one of the main reasons mass murderers do this. They want to make a name for themselves, and this is definitely giving fuel to the next person. They'll see this dude getting tons of mail from girls and think they can be swimming in pussy if they do the next one.
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yusiko
03/29/18 12:24:50 PM
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Resolution posted...
Volkswagen_Bros posted...
I don't get it. Dude looks like a neanderthal. He's ugly as shit.


Didn't stop people from oogling over Elliot Rodger


Elliot rodger was good looking though
He just had a horrible personality that drove people away
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Resolution
03/29/18 12:28:24 PM
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Elliot looked like a pig
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Fony
03/29/18 12:34:20 PM
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America is built on this, stop acting shocked. More than half of famous celebrated American folk heroes are plain old murders, thieves and rapists. Serial killers and mass murderers have always been popular with American women it's nothing new.
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Sayoria
03/29/18 12:35:39 PM
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Are.....are they conservative teen girls or liberal teen girls?....
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Anteaterking
03/29/18 12:40:38 PM
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Holy_Cloud105 posted...
That's one of the main reasons mass murderers do this. They want to make a name for themselves, and this is definitely giving fuel to the next person. They'll see this dude getting tons of mail from girls and think they can be swimming in p**** if they do the next one.


I think that's putting the cart before the horse. It's not as if they say "What's the easiest way to be famous?" and the answer is "Shoot up my school".

It's people who are already considering drastic action who then psyche themselves up with these other occurrences.
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