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I can't get enough of it. the macabre tales that haunt you to the bone because they are true. I think i have this urge to try and understand it. I can't even kill a fly without feeling guilty, how can crimes like this occur? So I read and I try, so far i am none the wiser, but i will not stop trying. Perhaps it all comes down to morbid curiosity, i don't know. what do you think? what draws you to reading true crime stories?

The reality of it. I find it more interesting if it happened for real or if it's based on a true story.
I also like to find out what drives a (serial) killer.
The behavioural science behind.
And of course the evidence and how science in that area is evolving.
But I don't forget about the victims too. What kind of person were they, how was their life before something happened and if they survived, how went their life after the event.
Or, when the person is still missing. What happened to them, where are they now, who is behind their disappearance and will they ever be found?

ah yes, all of those are indeed questions i ask myself as i read true crime books as well. just mainly why, which i suppose is the human way to look at it. though you are also right in the curiosity of what drives a killer, that boggles my mind too. i want to wrap my head around it but i am kind of scared to, lol.

do you prefer a whole book dedicated to one crime or a book with a look at a bunch of different crimes?

It doesn't scare me, unless I would let my mind take me to something that could happen to me. Then it will become a bit of a different story of course. I have wondered what I would do if I would fall in the hands of such an evil person.

My preference goes out to a whole book. Then you usually get more indepth into a certain story. But, my favorite writer, Ann Rule, had a series of crime files books. Then she had a longer story and a bunch of others that were shorter. Sometimes a story isn't long enough for a whole book. And I enjoyed all of her books with multiple stories just as much.

i too prefer the whole book dedicated to the story then a compilation of case files. though there was a great book i read about crime in america in the early part of the last century, bonnie and clyde, the kelly gang, dillinger, all that stuff. it was written in a way though that it was all one complete story, even though it was all their individual tales told completely. it was a great view on the few years when outlaws ran amok in america raking in the public love with newspaper stories and what not. it was excellent, id say one of the best true crime books ive ever read. if only i could remember the title, lol. im going to look it up so i can put the name here as i think it deserves to be named.

You mentioned that book, yes and I sure think it's a bummer you don't remember the name, otherwise I could search for it. Think, Dave, think, I want to know, lol.

hahaha i found it, after a few google search tries i finally found it. the book was called the cases that haunt us by john douglas and mark olshaker. it was a good one

Thanks a bunch for your effort. That one I definitely have in my to-read list. I also remember I couldn't find it as a torrent and I was disappointed about that. :P