The Zodiac Killers: A Documentary Analysis

"So, what are you into?" A simple question, right? Wrong. You'd think in the 21st century people would be more open minded to other's interests, but when you have an interest in serial killers like I do it's hard to get a conversation past that simple question. I once when met a boy and he asked the million dollar question. Naturally I said "Well, I really like serial killers." With that he gave me a sideways stare, awkwardly shifted in his chair and refused to make eye contact for more than a second. Eventually he told me he had to go, he and I both knew he didn’t. To think, a complete stranger telling you through body language that he simply couldn’t bare being near you a second longer. Now let's get something straight, when I say I like serial killers it doesn’t mean I have an obsession with John Wayne Gacy, or a shrine for The Zodiac Killer. It does not mean that I see Aileen Wuornos as a role model. It means the way they think interests me like no other. The psychology behind it. How could someone torture and kill another living, breathing human being? What's the difference between
However, this situation isn’t just limited to me, in 2014 John Borowski produced a documentary called “Serial Killer Culture” which had a controversial topic of murderabilia and murder art. Borowski once said in an interview with Psychology Today “They are human beings just like all the rest of us, and I feel it is society's responsibility to attempt to understand them and not just execute them so they are out of sight, out of mind. There must be a reason for their existence and I’m attempting to figure that out.” Sadly, people didn’t see it this way. Most people were offended by his film and said it was “idolizing serial killers.” Personally, I didn’t see any of the people interviewed idolize any of the serial killers, or their