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Aug 31, 2020Liked by Best Evidence

Welp. I watched I Am A Killer...Released yesterday and it left me feeling simply terrible. On one hand, you have a convict who appears remorseful, who appears to have discovered some form of faith (I am so suspicious of anyone coming to religion in prison), who has a kind and loving relationship with his substitute mother and who wants to make his remaining family proud of him. But then - for me - the other shoe drops when he gives the “new” explanation that the victim was trying to blackmail him into a gay relationship. Cue the record scratch. In the first place, he simply never had to see the victim again. In the second place, how about punching someone in the nose? (Sorry to advocate violence, but there are other ways of dealing with someone you have a problem with.) The fact that the very simple people in his church found his explanation believable made me cringe even further. I was glad that at least the attorneys in larger cities disputed that nonsense. The largest reaction I had was when the filmmaker asked Sigler what other way he could have handled things, and Sigler practically bounced out of his chair indicating that hindsight was 20/20 and he didn’t want to waste time on that. Isn’t that exactly what he was supposed to spend his time in prison contemplating? Isn’t that part of what you try to figure out? I hope the victim’s family never watches this - I don’t think there’s anything they can learn from it. TL;DR - I think that therapy is good for everyone, and even people out on parole could benefit from a good therapist. As the 90 Day Gays would say, Sigler might want to process that.

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Aug 31, 2020Liked by Best Evidence

It is so weird to me that Chapman is still alive, and that he is so young (65 ain't that old). I happened to be reading about the Starkweather killings today and was similarly shocked to realise that Caril, the girlfriend/possible accomplice, is still alive too.

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