Want to read book wriiten by a real serial killer?

Eagle · Aug 3, 2015

On May 23, 2014, Elliot Rodger killed six people and injured fourteen others in Isla Vista, California, near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara, before committing suicide.

The attack began when 22-year-old Rodger stabbed three men to death in his apartment. Afterwards, he drove to a sorority house and shot three female students outside, killing two. He drove to a nearby delicatessen and shot to death a male student who was inside. Then, he began to speed through Isla Vista, shooting and wounding several pedestrians and striking several others with his car. Rodger exchanged gunfire with police twice during the attack, receiving a non-fatal gunshot to the hip. The rampage ended when his car crashed into a parked vehicle and came to a stop. Police found him dead in the car with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Before driving to the sorority house, Rodger uploaded a video to YouTube, titled "Elliot Rodger's Retribution", in which he outlined details of his upcoming attack and its motivations, which he described as a desire to punish women for rejecting him and also a desire to punish sexually active men for living a more enjoyable life than his.

After uploading the video, Rodger e-mailed a lengthy autobiographical manuscript to approximately a dozen acquaintances and family members. The document, which he titled "My Twisted World", was made available on the Internet and became widely known as his "manifesto". In it, he describes his childhood, family conflicts, frustration over not being able to find a girlfriend, his hatred of women, his contempt for racial minorities and interracial couples, and his plans for what he described as "retribution".
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http://abclocal.go.com/three/kabc/kabc/My-Twisted-World.pdf

Here's the book. I actually read it. Its the creepiest thing I have ever read. Scared the hell out of me.

Ched · Aug 3, 2015

I wouldn't call it a book, but yeah, it's creepy and fucked up. He also leaves a lot out of it, and what he leaves out is telling. Google tells me that he started seeing a psychiatrist when he was eight, but he's around ten or eleven at the point of this 'manifesto' that I'm in, and not a single mention of it. Despite numerous other observations and mentions on damn near everything else.

Interesting from a forensic perspective in a sense, on what makes people like this so crazy. Also potentially helpful if I ever decide to write a fictional story about such a person.

yak · Aug 3, 2015

I don't think I want to read this. It's a point of semantics OP, but Elliot Rodger was a spree killer, not a serial killer.

Andrela · Aug 4, 2015

I think I'll just stick to browsing /b/, I'll get the same thing in higher quantities.

Persephone · Aug 5, 2015

I don't really trust him to be objective and not paint himself as a victim.

Iztiak · Aug 5, 2015

I think the only thing spree/serial killers deserve is to be forgotten.

Maybe this is useful for, as Cheddar said, "forensic purposes" but I am not in that line of work/study. Attention is what these people want, so I'm not going to read his garbage and I won't even remember his name if I can help it.

Quick Ben · Aug 5, 2015

I won't read it because like Iztiak said this kind of people don't need to be remembered at all.

Innomine · Aug 5, 2015

I hardly think we're benefiting a dead guy by reading what he wrote.

If you find it interesting, read it, if you don't, then don't read it. Pretending that you're making a morally superior decision by not reading it just sounds lazy to me. It simply has no affect one way or the other, since no one will know whether you've read it or not.

I tend to find these sorts of things interesting, but I haven't read it yet, and in all honesty I probably won't. As far as examples of fucked up people go, he wasn't particularly interesting. I watched a few of his videos when it first happened and they were a pretty typical, if extreme, example of mental illness. I doubt his actual book would be any different.

Sechrima · Aug 5, 2015

I've read it. The little Untermensch was batshit insane. Most of his problems stemmed from being wildly materialistic, narcissistic, and anti-social. He couldn't approach girls or speak to them, but thought of himself as being something pretty special. So he grew to hate females for not miraculously recognising his immense worth.

His vision of a perfect world is something I haven't seen people talk about much, but it was the 'climax' of his manifesto:

In fully realizing these truths about the world, I have created the ultimate and perfect ideology of how a fair and pure world would work. In an ideal world, sexuality would not exist. It must be outlawed. In a world without sex, humanity will be pure and civilized. Men will grow up healthily, without having to worry about such a barbaric act. All men will grow up fair and equal, because no man will be able to experience the pleasures of sex while others are denied it. The human race will evolve to an entirely new level of civilization, completely devoid of all the impurity and degeneracy that exists today.

In order to completely abolish sex, women themselves would have to be abolished. All women must be quarantined like the plague they are, so that they can be used in a manner that actually benefits a civilized society. In order carry this out, there must exist a new and powerful type of government, under the control of one divine ruler, such as myself. The ruler that establishes this new order would have complete control over every aspect of society, in order to direct it towards a good and pure place. At the disposal of this government, there needs to be a highly trained army of fanatically loyal troops, in order to enforce such revolutionary laws.

The first strike against women will be to quarantine all of them in concentration camps. At these camps, the vast majority of the female population will be deliberately starved to death. That would be an efficient and fitting way to kill them all off. I would take great pleasure and satisfaction in condemning every single woman on earth to starve to death. I would have an enormous tower built just for myself, where I can oversee the entire concentration camp and gleefully watch them all die. If I can’t have them, no one will, I’d imagine thinking to myself as I oversee this. Women represent everything that is unfair with this world, and in order to make the world a fair place, they must all be eradicated.

A few women would be spared, however, for the sake of reproduction. These women would be kept and bred in secret labs. There, they will be artificially inseminated with sperm samples in order to produce offspring. Their depraved nature will slowly be bred out of them in time. Future generations of men would be oblivious to these remaining women’s existence, and that is for the best. If a man grows up without knowing of the existence of women, there will be no desire for sex. Sexuality will completely cease to exist. Love will cease to exist. There will no longer be any imprint of such concepts in the human psyche. It is the only way to purify the world. In such a pure world, the man’s mind can develop to greater heights than ever before.

Future generations will live their lives free of having to worry about the barbarity of sex and women, which will enable them to expand their intelligence and advance the human race to a state of perfect civilization.
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Utterly and bewilderingly insane.

Ched · Aug 5, 2015

Innomine said: ↑

I hardly think we're benefiting a dead guy by reading what he wrote.
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I think what they meant (I might be wrong) is that by affording his manifesto attention on social media, or anywhere else, we encourage that sort of thing in the future.

Some argue that it's two-pronged - others might leave something similar in a desperate bid for attention if they've seen it work before. But also it might encourage the media to focus on the killer instead of the victims in future disasters since that's what got attention. Some of that is just human nature though.

Not sure of my own thoughts in this camp.

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