tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 6:55 pm I think they came to the conclusion a long time ago that there is no common denominator for serial killers

That may be so...I'm not a serial killer profiler..

However, common sense tells me that he had a unhappy, troubled childhood. Seems his father, an Indian tailor banged his shop employee, had a love child and then he deserted them. And as a siliconlife says his mother allegedly abused him for bed wetting. Then his French stepfather rejects him as not his own. And so he's neglected and leads him to petty crime and then upscales as time goes on.

I'd like to know more about why he despised hippies and drug users so much.

siliconlife wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 8:50 pm I'd like to know more about why he despised hippies and drug users so much.

Maybe didn't dislike anyone in particular. Just crimes of opportunity.

Cooldude wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 9:05 pm Maybe didn't dislike anyone in particular. Just crimes of opportunity.

From the wiki, and concurrent with the show, and other sources: "He had an intense hatred of hippies, and many of his murders reflected this."

In The Serpent, at one point he mentions that they represent a new kind of cultural colonialism to him. But I feel like there is more to it for some reason.

This Be The Verse
BY PHILIP LARKIN
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.

tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 6:27 pm

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 6:05 pm

tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 5:46 pm I probably met you in the pudding shop

Kabul was paradise, I attended SF art institute ..

was that before you met charles sobraji at a party in Bangkok or after ?

A good place to first mention this, with scepticism hanging thick in the air.
I am writing up my story right now. Hard to tell the full15 mins in less than 10 pages,
I have never put it down before and i want set the scene, and put in a bit of the context and flavour too. I'll edit as hard as i can.

15 mins, approx 10pm, some street, Bangkok, approx Sept 7, 1975.
It will take a couple of days.
(and as usual, i'll swear on the bible)

i never met Charles,
didn't get to Bangkok till 82
from India, i turned around and went back to Europe

Kabul 1975

Afghani's


Outdoor market Kabul


Photographer in Kandahar


Afgans at the Khyber pass



Looking forward to it Stern..

John Bingham wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 12:40 am

siliconlife wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 8:50 pm I'd like to know more about why he despised hippies and drug users so much.

I don't know if he did, he just found them easy to manipulate.

Obviously, but the reality is likely much more complicated. Charles was much more than just an opportunist. I don't think the motivations for his murders will ever be truly clear. Certainly the thrill was part of it as well, but I don't think that was all that was going on in his head either.

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:46 am i never met Charles,
didn't get to Bangkok till 82
from India, i turned around and went back to Europe

Kabul 1975

Afghani's


Outdoor market Kabul


Photographer in Kandahar


Afgans at the Khyber pass



Looking forward to it Stern..

My mistake, I thought you said in an earlier post that you met him at a party in Bangkok ?