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Serial killers answer letters from guy pretending to be a 10-year-old



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In the late '90s, pop-culture historian Bill Geerhart had a little too much time on his hands and a surfeit of stamps. So, for his own entertainment, the then-unemployed thirtysomething launched a letter-writing campaign to some of the most powerful and infamous figures in the country, posing as a curious 10-year-old named Billy.
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14 responses // Serial killers answer letters from guy pretending to be a 10-year-old

  • That is interesting.
    Egnatius212
  • Its the innocence of a child that makes every man buckle.
    ipodrulz
  • I love Charly's.
    ILiveonaClock
  • When I read Manson's letter, it didn't surprise me on how creepy of a guy he is. Not to mention the picture he sent of the shed, very haunting!
    ice_monster
  • Bizarre! That's all have to say about the whole thing.
    VoyagerFilms
  • Bizarre is the only word that describes it, so I'll stick with that.

    As strange as the Manson letter was, it read as rather positive - "don't let the job [as a prosecutor] make you bad - you make the JOB good." (loosely translated).
    Of course, most of the letters from him are pure gibberish to me.

    He seemed like a very lonely crazy-ass-multiple-murderer-cult-leader who wanted to pass on something good in the world, as he's getting late in years.

    So says the annoyingly positive half-a-monkey.

    (Yeah, that shed...imagination is leaking.)
    Humdrum
  • I like the response Larry Flynt sent when 'Billy' proposed a Hustler for kids: "Hang in there, you'll be 18 before you know it."
    richjm
  • I may not particularly like him, but at least Clarence Thomas was considerate enough to actually read and respond to the letter instead of letting his secretary respond or send out a generic response.
    NcSchu
  • man, that Charles Manson letter was freaky! and the picture of a shed... man thats weird.. like something from a thriller movie!

    but ye, alot of the criminal types seem really happy to be getting mail from such an 'innocent' source, as if it detaches them from their harsh reality and brings them back to a calm neutral..
    R7
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  • after reading those i'm tempted to do the same that was fabulously entertaining
    diode
  • this is genius - this is the equivalent of writing "war and peace" if you're a pop culture enthusiast ,or painting the mona lisa . now i want him to put the letters on E-bay .
    malathion
  • Those were hilarious! I loved the comments it generated as well, they were, umm, enlightening...
    alicynx
  • When i read Charles Manson's second letter I got chills because it reminded me of this resume I received once. This guy walked in, ripped down the help wanted sign and asked me for a pen and paper. He spent 45 minutes curled up in the corner and afterward left me this resume and a huge ball of tinfoil. He also stole my pen.

    The lesson I take from this to apply to my own personal life is that I may start asking guys to write me a letter prior to first dates. I'm pretty sure that would have weeded a few of the past ones out.
    leeza
  • I stumbled on this article a few days ago...it's pretty interesting that a handful of the nation's most notorious criminals and politicians can't help but give advice to a little kid.
    chilipeppers675

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