13 real life kids straight out of horror movies.

GasBandit · Oct 31, 2012

Happy Halloween, here's some lost faith in humanity for you - 13 preadolescent, unrepentant murderers.

Dave · Oct 31, 2012

Yikes. Um....thanks....?

Azurephoenix · Oct 31, 2012

That's really... depressing...

Dave · Oct 31, 2012

I love the fact that Google ads is showing me Dexter in this thread.

GasBandit · Oct 31, 2012

Dave said:
Yikes. Um....thanks....?

Always happy to oblige.

Ravenpoe · Oct 31, 2012

You know, one thing I noticed is that most of these stories fall along the lines of "people wanted the death penalty, but the judge went lenient on the kid and now they're out." Up until you get to the black kid, which then becomes "youngest person to get life in prison without parole."

Frank · Oct 31, 2012

Ugh, the worst is when you read that a kid did something sexual to their victims. That's usually a spot on indicator that that kid themselves had been victims of sexual crimes.

sixpackshaker · Oct 31, 2012

Ravenpoe said:
You know, one thing I noticed is that most of these stories fall along the lines of "people wanted the death penalty, but the judge went lenient on the kid and now they're out." Up until you get to the black kid, which then becomes "youngest person to get life in prison without parole."

Who was then released, and robbed a pizza delivery...

Ravenpoe · Oct 31, 2012

sixpackshaker said:
Who was then released, and robbed a pizza delivery...

My point wasn't that he was innocent. My point was sentencing bias in judges and juries.

sixpackshaker · Oct 31, 2012

Also most of these kids are not in America.

Necronic · Oct 31, 2012

very little holds a candle to Albert Fish. And these are close.

Gared · Oct 31, 2012

I think I could have gone the rest of my life quite happily not knowing about Albert Fish... damn my innate curiosity.

Cajungal · Oct 31, 2012

Ravenpoe said:
You know, one thing I noticed is that most of these stories fall along the lines of "people wanted the death penalty, but the judge went lenient on the kid and now they're out." Up until you get to the black kid, which then becomes "youngest person to get life in prison without parole."

I noticed that too.

Brrr... this is disturbing.

MindDetective · Oct 31, 2012

Parents of young infants should not read that link.

Gared · Oct 31, 2012

MindDetective said:
Parents of young infants should not read that link.

I'm not certain that anyone should read that link. At the risk of starting a philosophical discussion, is there really any purpose that a list like that serves, other than to remind us that there are "monsters" in this world?

Azurephoenix · Oct 31, 2012

I really wish I hadn't let my curiousity get the better of me... I think I'm going to be sick...

Necronic · Oct 31, 2012

you know, a couple of them aren't that bad. The black kids for instance actually seems like ti could have been an accident. Except for the fact that he was black of course.

Bowielee · Oct 31, 2012

I do like that the examples are from all sorts of time periods. Usually when they have an article like this, they use it as a springboard to try to illustrate how the current state of the media or culture is breeding kids who are serial killers.

sixpackshaker · Oct 31, 2012

They even left out ~~"I hate Mondays."~~

err, "I don't like Mondays."

Necronic · Oct 31, 2012

the nastiest serial killers I've heard of were HH Holmes and Albert Fish, bar none. Not to mention war criminals/murderous royalty. Serial killers of today have nothing on the old ones. Thankfully.

Gared · Oct 31, 2012

Necronic said:
the nastiest serial killers I've heard of were HH Holmes and Albert Fish, bar none. Not to mention war criminals/murderous royalty. Serial killers of today have nothing on the old ones. Thankfully.

So far as we've heard, at least. Last I heard, they still didn't know why all of those feet kept washing ashore in B.C, pre-tsunami.

Necronic · Oct 31, 2012

probably Chinese or Russian gangland assasinations.

GasBandit · Oct 31, 2012

Gared said:
I'm not certain that anyone should read that link. At the risk of starting a philosophical discussion, is there really any purpose that a list like that serves, other than to remind us that there are "monsters" in this world?

Yes. I want to hurt your soul.

But that aside, there's little I enjoy more than a "Human beings are inherently evil" discussion.

Gared · Oct 31, 2012

heh. If reading words on an electronic medium could hurt my soul, I'd be screwed. Or dead. Or possibly locked away in a psychiatric hospital for the rest of my days. I'm pretty sure my soul is safe from reading this list.

GasBandit · Oct 31, 2012

Gared said:
heh. If reading words on an electronic medium could hurt my soul, I'd be screwed. Or dead. Or possibly locked away in a psychiatric hospital for the rest of my days. I'm pretty sure my soul is safe from reading this list.

Sociopath.

Gared · Oct 31, 2012

GasBandit · Oct 31, 2012

Though, since you specify "electronic" medium, would you say you are more susceptible to the physically printed word?

Gared · Oct 31, 2012

GasBandit said:
Though, since you specify "electronic" medium, would you say you are more susceptible to the physically printed word?

Can't say I am, no.

GasBandit · Oct 31, 2012

Gared said:
Can't say I am, no.

Spoken word, then?

Gared · Oct 31, 2012

That depends. If I'm just listening to a story, or a description of something or someone, no. If someone is talking directly to me, and is threatening me or my loved ones/friends? Then yeah, I can be affected by that.

GasBandit · Oct 31, 2012

Gared said:
That depends. If I'm just listening to a story, or a description of something or someone, no. If someone is talking directly to me, and is threatening me or my loved ones/friends? Then yeah, I can be affected by that.

Does it have to be a threat? There is no abstract, or merely non-immediate concept which can threaten your perception of yourself or the world around you?

Gared · Oct 31, 2012

Sure, but we were discussing what could hurt my soul, not what could alter my perception of myself or the world around me. Plenty of things can alter my perception of myself or the world around me, but my soul remains (mostly) intact. Even this conversation has the possibility of altering my perception of myself, if not directly through your questions then indirectly by the amount, and topic, of introspection that goes into me formulating my answers.

GasBandit · Oct 31, 2012

Gared said:
Sure, but we were discussing what could hurt my soul, not what could alter my perception of myself or the world around me. Plenty of things can alter my perception of myself or the world around me, but my soul remains (mostly) intact. Even this conversation has the possibility of altering my perception of myself, if not directly through your questions then indirectly by the amount, and topic, of introspection that goes into me formulating my answers.

It's just a question of the magnitude and direction of the alteration of perception.

Gared · Oct 31, 2012

I can see that, but the amount of difference in magnitude between altering my perception enough to say, make me dread my drive home, and making me think less of myself is ginormous; and it's highly unlikely that anything anyone can say to me, before I have a chance to disengage from the conversation/argument/what-have-you is going to be enough to do the trick.

jwhouk · Oct 31, 2012

Yawn.

You forget where I work, Gas.