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"... apidocere: white, soapy, rotting flesh, almost like lard. A product of decomposition, apidocere takes twelve months or more to form." From the opening chapter of Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer, by Tim Cahill.

Just starting to read this now. Has anyone read it?

PlainTalk wrote:"... apidocere: white, soapy, rotting flesh, almost like lard. A product of decomposition, apidocere takes twelve months or more to form." From the opening chapter of Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer, by Tim Cahill.

Just starting to read this now. Has anyone read it?

Many years ago. IIRC, he likened Gacy's mind to an onion. You keep thinking that under the layers there's some kind of real core there, but no, it's just more layers. Layers of lies, justifications, more lies.

Um, or maybe that was the other guy who wrote a Gacy book...

PlainTalk wrote:Has anyone read it?

You would be the first.

GoDogGo! wrote:

PlainTalk wrote:"... apidocere: white, soapy, rotting flesh, almost like lard. A product of decomposition, apidocere takes twelve months or more to form." From the opening chapter of Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer, by Tim Cahill.

Just starting to read this now. Has anyone read it?

Many years ago. IIRC, he likened Gacy's mind to an onion. You keep thinking that under the layers there's some kind of real core there, but no, it's just more layers. Layers of lies, justifications, more lies.

Um, or maybe that was the other guy who wrote a Gacy book...

Decades ago I read M. Scott Peck's People Of The Lie which IIRC was about the nature of evil. Their most common shared characteristic was the inability of evil people to acknowledge that they were evil.