Current Events > Has a serial killer ever done "good"?

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For example has a serial killer ever pulled something crazy like dexter where he goes after what he perceives to be bad people? Or would those just be a crime of passion?

BTK went to church

Remember, TV isn't real.

Ted Bundy, a serial killer, worked at a suicide hotline. He talked to suicidal callers, and listened to their problems, as he caringly persuaded them not to commit suicide

Ted Bundy's co-worker at the suicide hotline was named Ann Rule. She wrote a famous book about how compassionate Ted Bundy was, named The Stranger Beside Me

Theres a shit load of missionary killers who think theyre purifying the world

I'm sure that there have been serial killers who an hero'd themselves.

I'm sure that counts.

historically, groups of people did so much 'good' for their own benefit

Wasn't there one guy who beat a bunch of child molesters to death with a hammer?

Ted helped cooperate with law enforcement in capturing the green river killer Gary Ridgeway.

Many killers have thought they were.

historically Genghis Khan comes to mind. His senseless slaughter all over Eurasia caused massive reforestation. If you want to include some military soldiers, then Simho Hayha comes to mind, where he killed close to 600 people over 3 months, preventing the invasion of Russia into Finland. Essentially he was considered a 1 man army, they sent entire hit squads to take him out and he took every last one of them out. Only stopped after he was hit by a stray bullet through the cheek, which caused him to go into a coma, when he woke up the war was over. He lived well into his 90s.

Dorner?

Want there a recent one in the news who went after pedophiles?

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Not the same thing. You can be an absolute monstrous asshole and still care about people. its not an exclusive trait.

Ivany2008 posted...

historically Genghis Khan comes to mind. His senseless slaughter all over Eurasia caused massive reforestation. If you want to include some military soldiers, then Simho Hayha comes to mind, where he killed close to 600 people over 3 months, preventing the invasion of Russia into Finland. Essentially he was considered a 1 man army, they sent entire hit squads to take him out and he took every last one of them out. Only stopped after he was hit by a stray bullet through the cheek, which caused him to go into a coma, when he woke up the war was over. He lived well into his 90s.

mass murderer =/= serial killer

You gotta do a good deed once in a while to balance out the bad.