10 Weird Books Written By Serial Killers

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5 – The Trinity of Superkidds,

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  • D. Bauer is the pseudonym of Charles Kembo, a serial killer who, it turns out, authored a young adult novel called Quest for Water.
  • Charles Kembo was convicted of four murders between 2002 and 2005. In 2003, his wife disappeared and her body was never recovered. Later that year, Kembo’s business partner was found strangled and castrated in a Vancouver park. A year later, the remains of his new girlfriend were found in a hockey bag, and then his twenty-year-old stepdaughter’s body was found in 2005 wrapped in garbage bags and callously dumped.
  • Charles Kembo was arrested a few days after his final murder and is still in prison today.
  • The Trinity of Superkidds: Quest for Water is Charles Kembo’s 372-page YA adventure story about three fun-loving teens in a waterless post-apocalyptic world. The wholesome story was published on Amazon in 2010, during the murder trial. Who said serial killers can’t have other interests?

4 – Son of Hope,

  • David Berkowitz is an American serial killer who killed six people July 1976 and August 1977. He worked only at night and preferred to target dark-haired women. Because of this, many women that summer dyed their hair blonde or cut it short to stay off his radar.
  • During his eventual imprisonment, David found religion and became the ‘Son of Hope’. Hoping for redemption, he wrote a book with the same title, which contained his prison journals and described his rebirth into Christianity.
  • David had briefly been involved with a Satanist cult and says he was driven to murder by the devil. He claimed to suffer hallucinations and received instructional messages from the real mastermind of his crimes: his neighbour’s dog.
  • David is unable to profit from the sales of his book and a portion of the proceeds from each sale goes to the victims of his crimes. No word on whether the dog was compensated.

3 – The Making of a Serial Killer,

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  • Danny Rolling is a notorious Florida serial killer who raped and killed five college students in 1990. The son of a police officer, he came to Gainesville before the start of the University of Florida’s fall semester and pitched a tent in the nearby woods. He then carried out several gruesome murders over four days. In the aftermath, students were instructed to carry baseball bats around campus and to sleep twenty to a dorm room.
  • One of the most horrifying aspects of Danny’s killing spree was the way he posed one of his victims in a sitting position and placed her severed head on a nearby bookshelf.
  • Danny was eventually apprehended and wrote the book The Making of a Serial Killer from prison with his former fiancée, Sondra London. The book was published in 1996 and is filled with disturbing stories, like a graphic recount of his Sarasota rape.

2 – Killer Fiction,

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  • In 1973, Deputy Sheriff Gerard John Schaefer was convicted for the torture and the murder of teenagers Susan Place and Georgia Jessup. It’s likely he committed other murders, too, as a police search of his mother’s home revealed objects belonging to missing women and more than a hundred pages of writing and sketches depicting mutilations and murders.
  • In 1990, Gerard’s former high school girlfriend Sondra London – yes, the fiancé of last Danny Rolling; does this woman have a type or what? – published some of Gerard’s “fiction” in a volume called Killer Fiction.
  • However, police and prosecutors believe there was more fact than fiction in these stories, and Gerard himself even alluded to this in one a prison letter. All of Gerard’s fiction featured the savage torture and murder of women, clearly mirroring his own dark fantasies. They were often written from the killer’s perspective and the killer was usually a rogue cop like Gerard.
  • If you’re wondering, Sondra London went on to become a true crime writer, while Gerard was killed by a fellow inmate in 1995. The inmate ran into his cell, cut his throat, and stabbed him in the eyes. Mustn’t have liked him very much.

1 – A Question of Doubt,

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  • The notorious John Wayne Gacy killed thirty-three young people – mostly children. After serving a small portion of a sodomy sentence, Gacy moved to Chicago where he became a successful building contractor. He was well-liked and often appeared as ‘Pogo the Clown’ at children’s parties and charity events. This is when he got the taste for murder.
  • Gacy lured his victims – usually runaways and drifters – to his home by posing as a police officer or inviting them in for drinks. Once inside, he would handcuff them under the guise of performing a magic trick, and then rape and torture them.
  • He buried his victims’ bodies in the crawl space beneath his house, but was such a prolific killer that the space eventually filled and he had to start dumping bodies in a nearby river.
  • Gacy was eventually caught when an investigating officer noticed the smell coming from the crawl space. He was convicted in 1980, and given a lethal injection in 1994.
  • During his incarceration, Gacy co-authored a book called A Question of Doubt in which he blamed other parties for the corpses under his house. Probably that demonic dog was involved, too. He claimed the police and media had set him up, but evidence against him was overwhelming.
  • 500 copies of the book were published in 1993, but it has now fallen out of print. However, there was a play based on the book called 33: A Question of Doubt, which you can see if you like supporting mass murderers.

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