I haven't read that many true crime books and I'm wondering what the best are? Picrel is probably the best one I've read, but I've also read Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe and I guess Programmed to Kill by David McGowan can be considered true crime too and the same can be said for The Ultimate Evil by Maury Terry for that matter. Based on what I've read, and just generally too, what are the best true crime books /lit/ can rec me?
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>>24759148I assume that this book is about the altar that he was in the process of building when he was caught (and that he estimated that he would have completed in about six months had he not been caught when he was). For those unfamiliar, once he'd committed several murders he formed the idea of assembling an altar of his victim's skulls and other skeletal remains, and then he would just sit in his apartment and chill out and be at peace with them.This notion compare very interestingly with a scene in the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre film (pic related), when Pam enters the house and finds a room strewn with human and animal bones. In particular, a row of skulls are on some furniture, very much like what Dahmer had in mind. I've never come across any direct testimony that Dahmer ever watched TCM, but I like to think that his idea might have been slightly influenced by the scene, but this is baseless without the above. At any rate, he is supposed to have been fond of Exorcist III and Return of the Jedi. A later scene in TCM shows the better part of a human skeleton suspended upright, comparing with the finishing touches that Dahmer envisioned to really complete this thing: two complete skeletons, standing guard on either side of the skulls.Years later, in a commentary track Tobe Hooper acknowledged that the generator outside the house, which said "WISCONSIN" on it in close-up, was suggestive both of Ed Gein and later Dahmer, but he noted that it was pure coincidence (although he had studied Gein during the writing process).
>>24759148This is probably the best account of the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia and the shady shit surrounding it.
I read this one and liked it. The guy is a typical schizo r9k with an Asian gf
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Considering reading this cause I have a copy and this case was local to me, but it's like 500 pages long and I've already read one 500+ true crime book this year (The Ultimate Evil). It took me three months to finish and I don't relish another doorstopper. Need something more like my OP that's around ~300 pages at most.
>>24759148the videos are good
>>24759206Those covers are so bad.
>>24759148Panzram: A Journal of Murder
>>24759148Good books on The Caroll Edward Cole case?
>>24759894good
It's probably this one. Manson never personally killed anyone so there's a clinical dissection of Manson's entire "cosmology" that the writer has to effectively argue for because it's his job to convict the guy. It's a strong argument for the genre, from the inside of the tour bus that is the murder trial you kind of get a glimpse of the subcultural currents, moods and milieus that intersect, it's intriguing and it keeps the mystique alive in a way. The deep dives paradoxically enough reveals too much and the banality of it all becomes too apparent
>>24760324Chaos by Tom O'Neill totally destroys the official narrative.
Pretty Boy Floyd
>>24760690Perhaps so, I haven't read it. Helter Skelter contains the narrative that got Manson convicted and it's arresting in its own way, not saying it's necessarily true. The enduring aspect of the Manson story, about a charming cult figure weaving a narrative to make impressionable guys and girls to do his bidding against a backdrop of 60s free love, drugs and counter culture is what keeps it alive. Not necessarily the neat story presented by Bugliosi
