Are there any serial killers who (aside from their crimes) you think seem like pretty decent guys? (more explanation inside)

I too had a very verbally and physically volatile stepfather. Digs were an everyday occurrence, right down to him finding out what a select few kids at school called me to torment me, and then proceeded to also call me that name himself. So I was receiving constant torment in school and home.

"Turn that nigger shit down." was a normal thing to say to your step children who were only 14 or so at the time. He would literally just need to hear one beat from the bass and he'd be banging on the ceiling (I lived upstairs which I think saved my ass from maybe one beating or two just bc he was too lazy to climb up there) and screaming terrible shit through the house.

As I got older I started to speak up more. That made him turn his attention to my sister who is 8 years younger than me, bc she didn't fight back and I had become too much of a fight, joining the military and then kicking his ass one day, he learned I wasn't going to take it anymore.

A few months later I had to have CPS remove my own sister from my house. He beat her and attempted to snap her wrist. When she went to school the next day, they called the police and I recommended they take her away. Her father was arrested that night and while he was in jail for the night, we packed all our stuff and she went to live on a group home and I moved into my bosses house to live as an Au Pair until I was able to move out to live on my own.

My step father was married 2xs. Both his wives died very young (one 34 and one 46), coincidently when they were trying to leave him and get away from him. You have to understand, this man tried to set my mother on fire and things of that nature in the past and she was scared. Upon being ready to leave, she passed of a suspicious overdose.

I too had these things stick with me, and I still do. They come to me in the form of bad dreams and insecurity. I have noticed that as I've gotten older though, I have calmed down a lot. But at the same time, though I never would, I can sometimes understand the feeling of "being about to snap" because "haven't I gone through enough already?"

The rage that is so sudden, so instant, so powerful. It just hits you. But some of us handle it better than others. I very often feel bad for Ilene, because on a different level, I can relate. Again, I would never and could never hurt anyone, but with the sudden flashes of "grrrrrrrrr" I can feel when done wrong sometimes, I can see where she was coming from, kind of.

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