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Thread #76433 Message #1511664
Posted By: Willie-O
28-Jun-05 - 11:04 AM
Thread Name: 'Oh Death' serial killer, most wanted
Subject: RE: 'Oh Death' serial killer, most wanted
What a strange compelling and horrible story.
It appears Rader did in fact attend Wichita State U in the 70's so could have taken the folklore class. I don't see any info on whether he is any kind of a musician.
He is a municipal bylaw enforcement officer, which is the kind of job that gives you authority to enter other peoples' property and exert control over them...not that that's wrong, but it's sure interesting.
We had the opposite situation here, an unsolved double murder from 1987 in Hopetown Ontario, where the victims were the local building inspector and his "sister", (18 years his senior, and according to local talk, actually his mother. Gothic eh). George Simpson was a rather picky inspector I understand, and there is a rumoured suspect, (never charged), who was angry at him for a failed inspection.
As for R.W. Pickton, that's the most disgusting crime--well, it's right up there--and it doesn't look good for him, but he has neither been convicted of or confessed to any murders. Yet. It's beyond tasteless to say one is worse than the other, these are all ghoulish situations that took the lives of innocent, real people.