Why I'm Putting Up the "Serial Killer" Web Pages That AOL Banned

I don't like serial killers. In a big way.

And from what I can tell from her site, I don't like Sondra London (the person who put up writings of serial killers Dan Rolling and Keith Jesperson) much either*. So why did I decide to go to her site and download some of her pages before the quailing AOL authorities pulled them down?

It's not because I admire her or Keith Jesperson (who wrote the contents of the pages that follow), or their thoughts. It's not because I agree with anything they've written. It's certainly not because I'm trying to get Marc Klaas angry at me. None of these things are true in any way.

Mr. Klaas, if you read this, the loss of your daughter affected me deeply. I am not putting Jesperson's writing up here to immortalize it or give it a public forum. I'm doing it because I think that if more people knew how psychopathic killers think of their victims, they would be less likely to forgive them, less likely to think of them as "just another human being like myself", and less likely to set them free or give them parole.

Some people call killers and rapists "animals". In my view, killers like Jesperson are worse than animals, because animals generally kill for food, or sometimes out of bored cruelty. But people are born with a greater gift: that of brains and thought and the ability to rise above this kind of violence. When they instead do things like this for their own sick amusement, caring not a bit for their human victims, they sink lower and take themselves out of the human family. That is why I support capital punishment: creatures like this cannot be rehabilitated. They are, literally, the scum of the earth.

So now, with that long preface, here's your chance to read what Marc Klaas and AOL didn't want you to read. The words are completely unchanged, and the pages look virtually the same as they originally appeared, except some formatting errors have been fixed and references to missing pages removed. The pages have no links back to this or any other of my pages -- for philosophical reasons, I want people to come here first -- so you'll have to use the back button on your browser to get back here.
-- D. Fiedler

* I don't like when people attempt to censor others' thoughts, either, no matter how good their intentions.

The infamous "Piles of Garbage" document.

A wry plea for a halt to animal abuse.

Go back to my home page.