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Been on a big true crime kick lately and binging some documentaries on serial killers. Happened upon a British made series profiling "The world's most evil killers" and been binging for the past week or so. Last night I was pleasantly surprised to get an episode on Steph's favourite boi Ramirez and god did it deliver.
What I was enjoying about this series is that there was a lot of content from professional criminologists and forensic psychologists talking about the ins and outs of the killers featured- lots of going over their upbringing etc. I know that's nothing special, but it was interesting.
What I really felt with Ramirez was that in comparison to a lot of other killers I couldn't really feel a sense of empathy and understanding behind what he did. Like with Dahmer, he was fucking cruel but there was a theme running through what he did, psychologically I mean. He had abandonment issues from his upbringing and the killings reflect this sense of him wanting to keep his victims with him forever, immobilised, so no one could leave him alone. Ed Gein seemed to have some kind of psychotic break when his mother died and started trying to bring her back vicariously through his victims. With both of them, I could feel a sense of sympathy in a way, but if didn't excuse what they did at all and they deserved every last bit of criminal punishment they got.
Ramirez though. What he did was just plain horrific. There is absolutely no justification for his actions, it was just pure brutality. The documentary brought up his upbringing and how his cousin was a Vietnam vet who told him all about how he was brutally raping women and taking pictures of all the horrific stuff he was doing out there, but he wasn't horrified by any of it. He was just a true psychopath with a nice side order of narcissism. The fact Steph chose him for her harem doesn't exactly suprise me, as he had many followers fawning over him, but the fact she openly talks/talked about him in the way she does/did (haven't heard her mention him in a while outside of this recent documentary sperging).
Oh and the docu I watched did mention his wife, briefly. All they said was she wrote to him a shit ton, then they got married. Showed a picture of her and that was it lmao. Felt like even the producers didn't want to give that much air time, because it was just so disrespectful to every victim of his. There is literally no need for 'fun facts' or whatever Steph was trying to pull. He was an absolutely evil man. I don't like to use that word most of the time, because I can see how some serial killers are 'created' by the circumstances and whilst it doesn't justify their actions, I don't think evil does justice to describe a lot of killers. There's a lot to take home from looking at the effect attachment issues and abuse has on the mind when it comes to serial killing, but Ramirez really didn't have any of that shit.
Did Steph maybe go for him purely because she thought him being a Satanist was cool?? I can't understand serial killer fetishism, it just doesn't compute
What I was enjoying about this series is that there was a lot of content from professional criminologists and forensic psychologists talking about the ins and outs of the killers featured- lots of going over their upbringing etc. I know that's nothing special, but it was interesting.
What I really felt with Ramirez was that in comparison to a lot of other killers I couldn't really feel a sense of empathy and understanding behind what he did. Like with Dahmer, he was fucking cruel but there was a theme running through what he did, psychologically I mean. He had abandonment issues from his upbringing and the killings reflect this sense of him wanting to keep his victims with him forever, immobilised, so no one could leave him alone. Ed Gein seemed to have some kind of psychotic break when his mother died and started trying to bring her back vicariously through his victims. With both of them, I could feel a sense of sympathy in a way, but if didn't excuse what they did at all and they deserved every last bit of criminal punishment they got.
Ramirez though. What he did was just plain horrific. There is absolutely no justification for his actions, it was just pure brutality. The documentary brought up his upbringing and how his cousin was a Vietnam vet who told him all about how he was brutally raping women and taking pictures of all the horrific stuff he was doing out there, but he wasn't horrified by any of it. He was just a true psychopath with a nice side order of narcissism. The fact Steph chose him for her harem doesn't exactly suprise me, as he had many followers fawning over him, but the fact she openly talks/talked about him in the way she does/did (haven't heard her mention him in a while outside of this recent documentary sperging).
Oh and the docu I watched did mention his wife, briefly. All they said was she wrote to him a shit ton, then they got married. Showed a picture of her and that was it lmao. Felt like even the producers didn't want to give that much air time, because it was just so disrespectful to every victim of his. There is literally no need for 'fun facts' or whatever Steph was trying to pull. He was an absolutely evil man. I don't like to use that word most of the time, because I can see how some serial killers are 'created' by the circumstances and whilst it doesn't justify their actions, I don't think evil does justice to describe a lot of killers. There's a lot to take home from looking at the effect attachment issues and abuse has on the mind when it comes to serial killing, but Ramirez really didn't have any of that shit.
Did Steph maybe go for him purely because she thought him being a Satanist was cool?? I can't understand serial killer fetishism, it just doesn't compute
