You've
likely heard about Ronald Dominique by now, the homeless man who was arrested a
few days ago on two murder charges and was under suspicion of being a gay serial killer. He has since confessed to
killing 23 men. All the murders involved some combination of bondage,
strangulation and rape.
I didn't think much about the gay
angle other than, hey, probably 10% of serial killers are gay, right? But Rick Reed,
one of my favorite pals from my MySpace
page is a man who writes scary horror novels about very scary people
-- and Rick does think about these things.
In a guest post
for CrimeRant.com today, Rick posits some interesting questions about "gay" serial
killers:
How does being “gay” fit in with crimes like the ones Dominique allegedly committed? How does being “gay” fit in with the likes of Dahmer, Nielsen, Eyler, and Gacy? Were these men even gay at all, or were deeper, more sadistic tendencies at play…and men just seemed easier to lure into their traps of pain and horror? Or are the killings somehow representative of something else, perhaps a deep-seated self-loathing for being gay? Are the killings, each time, a way of exorcising attractions they deemed unhealthy or immoral?
And the biggest question of all: what about the victims? How could so many be so easily led to their fates? (Read all of 'Tainted Love: Alleged Serial Killer Ronald J. Dominique')
What do you
think? Do any of Rick's questions resonate for you, or are gay serial killers
just plain ol' mentally ill in the same way straight serial killers are, and the
gay thing is irrelevant?
Also, does the fact that this
less-than-average looking man could get 23 guys to let him tie them up
make anyone the teensiest bit more nervous about hooking up with strangers for
casual sex?
5 comments:
This is the first I've heard of this guy. I don't think being gay has anything to do with being a serial killer. Bottom line is that these people are sociopaths and sexual orientation has nothing to do with it.
I remember William Gregory Fowler of San Antonio, Texas had sex with this man.
i know for a fact serial killers are almost always faggots. what took you so long? you still wont even admit it even after writing your own words, hypocrite!
If it's true that there is a higher percentage of gay serial killers than gay people in the general population (which I doubt), it could easily be explained in terms of homophobia as opposed to homosexuality.
And if a serial killer tortures and/or rapes his male victims before killing them, that doesn't make him gay. Torturing and raping does not require attraction to the victim, just the desire to humiliate him or cause him pain.
slapasappylib - YOUR obviously GAY as well, as your in a gay blog, are you a serial killer? as you seem to think you know all about it, or are you just plain GAY ?and needing a man so bad that you cannot find it in yourself to admit it
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