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Post by ♫anna♫ on Aug 24, 2011 19:31:40 GMT
Here's the latest attempt to profit from the disgusting murderer cult. Why are some people so fascinated by murderers and death? The home of Anthony Sowell seen on November 4, 2009 in Cleveland, Ohio. Sowell was convicted on July 22, 2011 of murdering 11 women whose bodies were found inside the house or on his property. www.aol.com/2011/08/23/eric-gein_n_933921.html#s314099 QUOTE: Eric Gein Sells Soil From Serial Killer Anthony Sowell's Home CLEVELAND (AP) - An entrepreneur is selling soil from a serial killer's home in Cleveland, outraging victims' families. The Plain Dealer reports Eric Gein of Jackson, Fla., had an associate fill two sandwich bags with dirt from Anthony Sowell's (SOH'-wehlz) house two weeks ago and is selling it on his website called serialkillersink.net for $25 per gram. Gein expects to make a total of $500. Sowell was convicted last month of murdering 11 women and dumping their remains around his property. Gein says the soil is valuable to people because Sowell's victims were buried in it. He also says: "We live in a sick world." Denise Hunter's sister was killed and tells WJW-TV Gein has no morals. She hopes people will show compassion for the victims and not buy the dirt.
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Post by trubble on Aug 24, 2011 21:31:24 GMT
Buying and selling bags of alleged soil... ugh.. that's quite, quite twisted.
But otherwise it's just human nature. Murder is as old as the human race, I guess; hold on, it's probably older. Cain and Abel is where the bible begins to get really interesting. We can't help but have some sort of interest in it.
All sorts of people profit from it. Newspapers spring to mind but of course it's inherent in all media -- ever hear the phrase ''if it bleeds, it leads''? That's because it makes the money and it makes the money because we want to know.
Even if you just like a good old fashioned Poirot story, you are part of the industry.
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Post by sadie1263 on Aug 25, 2011 3:33:09 GMT
Why the heck would anyone buy dirt? I don't care who it was!!! Also...what stops anyone from just sending you dirt from just anywhere? Someone stands over them and guarantees it somehow???
You know.....I think Jack the Ripper left England and came thru the USA.....in fact...I think he camped on property that is now my backyard....yeah.......I think I'll put some of my dirt up on Ebay!I'll even throw in some of Jack's dog poop for free!
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Post by trubble on Aug 25, 2011 7:57:16 GMT
That's the spirit! (I think someone once sold Welsh air. In little bottles.)
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Post by sadie1263 on Aug 25, 2011 17:57:42 GMT
Sooo.....they were able to sell people bottles of air??? Seriously....I swear we can all come up with a better deal and make a fortune!!!
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Post by trubble on Aug 25, 2011 20:41:50 GMT
Welsh air is exceedingly Fresh, or so I've heard.
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Aug 26, 2011 5:33:46 GMT
That's the spirit! (I think someone once sold Welsh air. In little bottles.) Hi Trubble Orthodox and Hassidic Jews buy soil and air from Israel too, but that's a different subject. Nothing to do with Murderabilia!
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Aug 26, 2011 5:35:49 GMT
Here's Eric Gein presenting his murderabilia business and justifying it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2011 7:33:20 GMT
Oneof my first jobs was in a local newspaper office, and I remember a phone call from a woman in floods of tears asking me for help researching the history of her house. She was on the point of completing her house sale and the buyer had contacted her to say she had just found out there had been a murder there, and seeking a price reduction.
I had no way of searching for an address without a date but we chatted; we both thought the buyer was trying it on. I suggested she call back to thank the buyer and say that houses with a murder history usually command a premium. Whether she did or not I've no idea!
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Post by maggie on Aug 26, 2011 18:04:13 GMT
In the UK the houses of murders are sometimes bulldozed. The house of Fred and Rosemary West, who killed 12 people, was demolished and the caretaker's house where Ian Huntley lived - he killed two school girls - was also demolished.
I think that is the best way to deal with these properties, then they can't get into the hands of weird people like the one in the OP.
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Post by sadie1263 on Aug 26, 2011 22:35:36 GMT
True......the house from Amityville murders is really famous.....I think it was for sale again not too long ago....and the house from Lizzie Borden is a Bed and Breakfast........probably could get more money for a good famous murder on property.....people are so bizarre!
I'm still stuck on the dirt and air thing.....I can at least understand why someone would consider buying from a holy place......but really.....what kind of guarantee is there.....that's my biggest problem with it.....unless the dirt is a special color.....it could be from the person's backyard..........don't get me started on the air!!!
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Post by sadie1263 on Aug 28, 2011 17:12:06 GMT
I found this story from June.....friggin' amazing what some of this stuff sells for!!!
By THOMAS VINCIGUERRA
THE Smith Corona typewriter went for $22,003. The hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses fetched $20,025. The 20 personal journals were a steal at $40,676.
SOLD The Unabomber's typewriter. Enlarge This Image
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The Unabomber's tools. Altogether, in an online auction that ended Thursday, the United States Marshals Service sold 58 lots of property that belonged to Theodore Kaczynski, a k a the Unabomber, who during a 17-year terror spree sent package bombs that killed three people and injured 23. The sale, ordered by a Federal District Court judge in Sacramento, Calif., yielded $232,246.
The items put to auction were the latest high-profile examples of “murderabilia” — artifacts of notorious killers that end up in private hands. In the case of the Unabomber, the auction’s proceeds will go to his victims and their families.
But that is not typical. Almost always, the sellers are in the business for their own profit. And that makes for some strong feelings.
“It’s a sick and despicable industry,” said Andy Kahan, director of the Crime Victims Office for the City of Houston and the individual who coined the word murderabilia to describe it.
Acquiring the physical artifacts of convicted killers is nothing new. In 1958, a carnival barker paid $760 for the 1949 Ford sedan of Ed Gein, the inspiration for the Norman Bates character in “Psycho.” In 1991, Anthony Pugliese III, a Floriday real estate developer, plunked down $200,000 for the .38-caliber Colt Cobra revolver that Jack Ruby used to kill Lee Harvey Oswald.
But these were rare, isolated examples. Now, propelled by the Internet, the murderabilia market is growing. Mr. Kahan estimated that there were perhaps half a dozen murderabilia vendors in the United States who advertise online. They include serialkillersink.com, murderauction.com, and supernaught.com.
Just type in the address and behold: A holiday card signed by Joel David Rifkin, convicted of the murders of nine women in New York City, available for $350. A shirt worn by Richard Ramirez, a k a the Night Stalker, can be yours for as little as $1,400. Paintings by the executed serial killer John Wayne Gacy are especially popular and pricey; a portrait of his alter ego, Pogo the Clown, is currently going for $19,999.
Why would anyone want this stuff?
“Each piece tells a story,” Joe Turner, a British collector who owns a Gacy painting and a lock of Charles Manson’s hair, wrote in an e-mail. “At some point these killers were normal people who were children and were loved by people, then somewhere along the line they changed.”
The families of murder victims are generally appalled by this ghoulish trade. “I’m totally against it,” said Harriett Semander of Houston. In 1982, her 20-year-old daughter, Elena, was murdered by Coral Eugene Watts, a confessed serial killer . Years later, she discovered that a letter written by Mr. Watts was being sold online.
“It glorifies the criminal,” she said. “It brings back the grief.”
For the moment, however, survivors can do little to combat the trend. So-called “Son of Sam” laws are designed to prohibit criminals from profiting directly from the sale of their personal effects or stories. But there are few prohibitions against vendors who sell murder-related material on the secondary market. According to Mr. Kahan, only eight states — Texas, California, Utah, New Jersey, Florida, Alaska, Michigan and Montana — forbid the vending of murderabilia. An anti-murderabilia Senate bill sponsored last year by John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, and Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, is languishing.
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