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“America needs to know this story because our Constitution is being attacked, our freedom threatened, innocent people are being framed and murdered, and the outlaw motorcycle club culture is on the verge of extinction.” – Jeff “Twitch” Burns, Patriot Gangster: Volume 1, Evolution of an Outlaw”

CorruptionBiographiesLaw EnforcementMotorcycleTrue CrimeMemoirsOrganized CrimeCorruption And CrimeAtfOutlaw Motorcycle Clubs
Book:Patriot Gangster: My Experience As One Of The Most Influential Outlaw Motorcycle Club Members In American History. Volume 2: The Enforcer
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“there's a part in the essay that kind of does this academic "Let's unpack the idea of Lynchian and what Lynchian means is something about the unbelievably grotesque existing in a kind of union with the unbelievably banal," and then it gives a series of scenarios about what -- what is and what isn't Lynchian. Jeffrey Dahmer was borderline Lynchian...what was Lynchian was having the actual food products next to the disembodied bits of the corpse. I guess the big one is, you know, a regular domestic murder is not Lynchian. But if the man -- if the police come to the scene and see the man standing over the body and the woman -- let's see, the woman's '50s bouffant is undisturbed and the man and the cops have this conversation about the fact that the man killed the woman because she persistently refused to buy, say, for instance, Jif peanut butter rather than Skippy, and how very, very important that is, and if the cops found themselves somehow agreeing that there were major differences between the brands and that a wife who didn't recognize those differences was deficient in her wifely duties, that would be Lynchian -- this weird confluence of very dark, surreal, violent stuff and absolute, almost Norman Rockwell, banal, American stuff, which is terrain he's been working for quite a while -- I mean, at least since -- at least since "Blue Velvet.”

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Author:David Foster Wallace
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“I thought they were going to kill me there and then, which would have been a relief. To my horror, they spoke words that I will never forget: ‘We are going to keep you in the cellar and let our black friends use you and when they have finished with you, we will kill you and bury you under the paving stones of Gloucester. There are hundreds of girls there, the police haven’t found them and they wont find you!”

Child Sexual AbuseTrue CrimeSerial KillersPaedophilesBritish CrimeCaroline RobertsChild KillersCromwell Street MurdersFred And Rose WestRosemary West
Book:The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West
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“I wished at that moment that the Wests had killed me, it would have been a merciful release from the hell that DC Smith was putting me through. This barrage of questions by DC Smith and his heavy-handedness into this inquiry and his bullying barrack-room interrogation style of interviewing had left me feeling shamed.”

RapeChild Sexual AbuseTrue CrimeSerial KillersPaedophilesBritish CrimeCaroline RobertsChild KillersCromwell Street MurdersFred And Rose WestRosemary West
Book:The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West
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“As a child, I was attractive to paedophiles. I suppose being indecently assaulted when I was 13 years old should have warned me that there were some weird and dangerous men out there, but I had got over that episode in my life.”

Child Sexual AbuseTrue CrimeSerial KillersPaedophilesBritish CrimeCaroline RobertsChild KillersCromwell Street MurdersFred And Rose WestRosemary West
Book:The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West
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“Straightaway, they started chatting and telling me their names: Fred and Rose West. I was surprised that they were married, I wouldn’t have fancied someone like him, and she was pretty. I felt she could have done a lot better for herself, but they seemed happy and he was quite charming, in a roguish kind of way.”

Child Sexual AbuseTrue CrimeSerial KillersPaedophilesBritish CrimeCaroline RobertsChild KillersCromwell Street MurdersFred And Rose WestRosemary West
Book:The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West
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“At 31 years of age, Fred West was a big man trapped in a little man’s body. He thought himself to be a gynecologist and Warren Beatty look-a-like all rolled into one … the surgeon and the stud.”

Child Sexual AbuseTrue CrimeSerial KillersPaedophilesBritish CrimeCaroline RobertsChild KillersCromwell Street MurdersFred And Rose WestRosemary West
Book:The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West
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“Once you’d been with Freddie, you wouldn’t go anywhere else.’ (How true this was to prove.) This incessant bragging by Fred West was at best, annoying and at worst, sickening. According to him, he was God’s gift to women.”

Child Sexual AbuseTrue CrimeSerial KillersPaedophilesBritish CrimeCaroline RobertsChild KillersCromwell Street MurdersFred And Rose WestRosemary West
Book:The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West
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“That high pitch scream emitted by Rose made me wince! Her ear bursting howls would stun me into silence as much as it silenced the eldest child in their home, eight-year-old Anna-Marie.”

Child Sexual AbuseTrue CrimeSerial KillersPaedophilesBritish CrimeCaroline RobertsChild KillersCromwell Street MurdersFred And Rose WestRosemary West
Book:The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West
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“I had forgotten the fact that I had been raped, something no one would understand, how could anyone forget something as traumatic as being raped?”

Child Sexual AbuseTrue CrimeSerial KillersPaedophilesBritish CrimeCaroline RobertsChild KillersCromwell Street MurdersFred And Rose WestRosemary West
Book:The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West
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“The police still found this earlier omission in my statement hard to understand, but they weren’t the ones who had been the victim of the Wests, how could they have understood?”

Child Sexual AbuseTrue CrimeSerial KillersPaedophilesBritish CrimeCaroline RobertsChild KillersCromwell Street MurdersFred And Rose WestRosemary West
Book:The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West
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“I knew I hadn’t been the most innocent of victims, but I didn’t deserve this. DC Smith stood and grinned at me as he thanked me and left the room, leaving me to cry and to ponder on his not very adept handling of the situation.”

Child Sexual AbuseTrue CrimeSerial KillersPaedophilesBritish CrimeCaroline RobertsChild KillersCromwell Street MurdersFred And Rose WestRosemary West
Book:The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West
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“All what stuck in my mind was what the judge had said, and that was during the assault there must have been some passive co-operation on my part. Added to the fact that the Wests had only been fined £25 each for each of the charges against them, a total of £100 was all that I was worth.”

Child Sexual AbuseTrue CrimeSerial KillersPaedophilesBritish CrimeCaroline RobertsChild KillersCromwell Street MurdersFred And Rose WestRosemary West
Book:The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West
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“Rose West was starting 10 life sentences with no prospect of ever being released, Fred West had gone to hell, I had got my life back and the media circus had moved on to the next big scoop.”

Child Sexual AbuseTrue CrimeSerial KillersPaedophilesBritish CrimeCaroline RobertsChild KillersCromwell Street MurdersFred And Rose WestRosemary West
Book:The Lost Girl: How I Triumphed Over Life at the Mercy of Fred and Rose West
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“This extraordinary tale of madness, leading up to Stephen being sectioned off to the lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, also reveals Stephen’s eventual fight to win his freedom from the asylum, which saw his legal team mount a successful challenge against the ‘criminally insane’ label that was keeping him in Broadmoor. Moyle’s legal team successfully argued that he was either a criminal or insane, he could not be both.”

PrisonTrue CrimeViolence In SocietyPsycopathStephen MoyleBroadmoorCriminally Insane
Book:Psycho Steve
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“In answer to my prayers, the Devil that was supposed to be me scolded me for the request of a clergyman. The Devil spoke to God Almighty and they agreed that I could have the vicar’s soul to aggravate. I wanted something I hated for my escape, and that would be the vicar that denied my powers of the voices in the sky and denounced me as ‘abomination.’ I would escape the obstacles and think of my power, the power to communicate with God Almighty and the Devil.”

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Book:Psycho Steve
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“Time since my escape ticked by and the voices came to me. God Almighty and the Devil coaxed me onwards and stated that the edge of the forest was close at hand. The voices told me that they would search for me by air and put screws on the points and docks where there was access to the mainland. The voices also told me that the three prisons on the island would go on lock down until I was caught or wasn’t.”

GodTrue CrimeViolence In SocietyThe DevilPsycopathStephen MoylePrison Escape
Book:Psycho Steve
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“The sea was washing me crosswise and the speed of my strokes pushed me forward, but at a slower pace than the sideways wash. The float that I had tied around my chest was more of a hindrance as it was caught in the tide and floated sideways on the current, it should have been strung out behind me as I swam onwards. This extra effort was making huge demands on my oxygen requirement, I breathed harder and had to avoid intakes of seawater.”

True CrimeViolence In SocietyPsycopathStephen MoylePrison EscapeThe Solent
Book:Psycho Steve
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“I know people have swum the 3.5 mile stretch of the Solent from the Isle of Wight to the mainland for charity, and some just for the hell of it in the Cross Solent Swim, but this was at night, in the dark and without the help of a nearby boat to haul me in to safety. I didn’t have the benefit of tidal maps, accompanied swimming mates in near perfect conditions or the likes. I only my strength of determination and the beckoning lights on the mainland to aim for.”

True CrimeViolence In SocietyPsycopathStephen MoylePrison EscapeThe Solent
Book:Psycho Steve
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“I could feel my legs folding and unfolding like powerful scissors, pushing against the very power that was trying to hold me back. I had to maintain control of myself, not allow the sea to intimidate me. If this was a binding exercise then the sea and I would be firm friends, but I couldn’t allow it to be my equal. I screamed out aloud, ‘I will not be beaten, you bastard!’ Then I wondered how many people this sea had claimed as its own, how many were recovered dead and how many survived the hidden brutality?”

True CrimeViolence In SocietyPsycopathStephen MoylePrison EscapeThe Solent
Book:Psycho Steve
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