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🗓️ 23 December 2025
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The Genesee Killer. The Rochester Strangler. The River Monster ~ Arthur Shawcross.
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///Book///
The Misbegotten Son
https://www.amazon.ca/Misbegotten-Son-Serial-Victims-Shawcross-ebook/dp/B00U4X2Q4G
///Video///
Interview with a Serial Killer
https://youtu.be/j9o9EP0WCqY?si=YR_ZnBeYy3htG31l
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| 0:00.0 | Can we talk something else? |
| 0:02.8 | Can we talk about something else? |
| 0:09.6 | Hello. |
| 0:14.2 | Out there. out there Most people are pretty particular |
| 0:27.9 | about how they present themselves to the world |
| 0:31.0 | how they frame themselves |
| 0:33.4 | but the reality is |
| 0:35.4 | we're all a little crooked, a little off, a skew, bless you. |
| 0:41.8 | And that's fine. |
| 0:43.5 | That's human. |
| 0:44.9 | What bothers me are the people who aren't just a little off, but clearly warped. |
| 0:50.8 | Dangerously so. |
| 0:52.4 | And not even pretending to straighten themselves out. |
| 0:56.8 | They have no structure, no boundaries, no frame. |
| 1:00.8 | They don't care to be on the level. |
| 1:04.3 | And many of us reach, bend over backwards even, to help frame them. |
| 1:15.7 | He's rough, but he's a straight shooter. Okay, so being a straight shooter gives you license to be an asshole. Got it? You just have to get to nowhere better. |
| 1:22.6 | Uh-huh. I don't think so. That's actually the problem. I've been getting to nowhere. But okay, we're framing, adjusting. For them, I get that. Decent people adjust themselves for the sake of others. Sure, they may lie a little, straighten a picture here, tilt a mirror, there, trying to present something acceptable. |
| 1:46.0 | But what most of us truly want us to be seen, to see others, and to exist together in |
| 1:51.9 | something resembling a stable society. |
| 1:54.0 | But the ones who can't be bothered, they're unframed forgeries. |
| 1:59.8 | They sell themselves as free spirits when really they're just selfish. |
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