Killing - the Best Road to Fame

[Uncle Sam]

From Jack the Ripper to the Zodiac killer to... those people whose names I've forgotten, there's nothing that quite grabs attention on receives column inches like a murder or - better yet - several murders.

You can spend years practising guitar, but your band is still shit. Years of drama school will probably earn you a fleeting part in Casualty. Garotting someone, however, pretty much guarantees you some recognition.

So, it just goes to show, murder is the easiest way to become famous.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

There are so many killers these days it's going to be really hard to make an impact. You need to be really nasty to children to get yourself the recognition you deserve. A little rape and a slow and painful child death should do that for you.

But it won't last, how many serial killers do you really remember the face of? Me, hundreds, but I'm fascinated by them. I'm on about normal people.

You also need a cool name, I say cool, double barrel.

I still think Big Brother is casting if you want to get famous but not have blood on your hands. Either way, semen is going to be everywhere.

 

[The Mark of Zur-En-Arrh]

I'd say it'd be easier in this day and age to just fuck a celebrity, or get on Big Brother and just be the biggest douche the world has ever seen. Then you're set for life and you can watch 'Hello' and 'Ok' battle for the rights to your death.

See, the thing is, unless you've got some really crazy modus operandi like the Zodiac killer, or you play with female ovaries as you wear their skin ala Mr Ed Gein and also kill a LOT of people, then you'll be nothing but a footnote at the end of a coroner's list. If you think about the number of shootings and mass murders that have been on the news in the last year, and then look up the actual figure, you'd probably be wayyyyyy off. Hell man, i was in Texas for 4 days and even i lost count of the number of killings they reported on the news that weekend!

Really, sick, fucked up child killing is the only way to get full blown notoriety with the least amount of effort, like the Jamie Bulger thing (was that his name? The kid that got thrown on the train rails by those other 3?) Or Myra Hindley and wasshisface.

 

[nickbwfc]

Killing is useless.

You need to be ahead of your times.

Look at one of the most famous people ever, Guy Fawkes. He didn't even kill, but he had the idea of using explosives. He even has a day named after him, for planning to kill.

One problem you may have, is that everyone is using explosives nowadays.

May be try lasers. Then we can have a laser day.

 

[Ushiku]

The easiest and most infamous way to get famous via murder is to be a helper on some kind of disabled residential trip to the legislature of your country. After a few years with a clean CRB check and a good rapor for selflessly looking after disabled people, you get to go to parliament in a British person's case...

You meet and greet a few people, then after a merry celebration banquet take adantage of MP's being drunk, and torch the place using spilled alcohol and one of those decorative candles. If you're really spiteful you could even convince one of the disabled people that its a game, and therefore your DNA wouldn't be linked to doing it personally. Of course then you'd have to make sure that person didn't get out alive, so telling him or her you're playing hide and seek would be a good way to keep them in there.

Whilst I don't condone this, it is a genius plan.

This is what happens when social services places a good person amongst scum in a hostel when they turn 18... they may not agree with criminal practices, but they get to understand the criminal mind.

 

[shazam]

Like anything in life it all depends on what you do and who you do it to.

If you shoot a gang member in downtown Detroit you might not even make the local news. People have made a bigger deal about a rapper saying they'll shoot someone than they do when someone actually gets shot. If you killed someone that is influential to a city or area, mayor, police chief, etc., your name would be brought up when it happened, when you get sentenced, and when you try to get parole or are put to death. If you do something along the lines of a mass shooting you'll be talked about on the big news stations and have people try to figure out why you did what you did. Depending on where you do it you might be brought up on the anniversary.

But, the only way that you could live in infamy is if you do something not done before. If you were to kill someone along the lines of a world leader or huge celebrity. John Wilks Booth, Mark David Chapman, Lee Harvey Oswald all killed people that many people loved. They killed people that made a huge impact on alot of people's lives. If someone kills someone that is known worldwide then thats a way to always be remembered.

Or if for one reason or another your story sticks w/ people, something that people have never thought of before and will never forget. Sure we could all name some famous serial killers, but mostly b/c they have been used as the centerpieces and influences for movies and classic characters. Norman Bates from Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hannibal Lector and Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs and those are all take offs of Ed Gein. No one had heard a story like what Ed Gein had done before and when they heard that story it stuck with them. That story made enough impact on Alfred Hitchcock, Tobe Hooper, and so many others that they used bits and pieces of it to make some of the most classic horror stories and characters. We all know Jack the Ripper b/c he was the "first" serial killer and the Zodiac Killer b/c he did something that isn't supposed to happen, he didn't get caught. I know there are more but I think I made the point I was trying to make. There have been alot of serial killers, but if you ask anyone, an expert in the field or someone of the street, to name a famous serial killer I think that the same names will come up multiple times. The story needs to be memorable, and nothing is more memorable than something never done before.