... not that there is that much to tell. Every detail we have is basically coming from his relatives, the ones who were generous enough to be filmed about details of his life.
The guy has been play acting that he is an Alzheimer's patient since he was arrested. Then he went on a hunger strike. Because...what??? ... He thinks they are going to let him out under any circumstances??? He is the poster boy for no parole. Ever.
Back to the details of GSK's life. None of his relatives had a clue. He was a good father by all estimation. He had helped out a niece who had been a victim of abuse by giving her a place to live. And as a child, when living in Germany, his sister was raped in front of him by two soldiers. Maybe that is where JJD went off of his axis. The beginning of the making of a monster. Because by the time he was a young man he had big streaks of being a control freak. Bonnie, his former fiancee from back in the 60s, talked about how he liked to break the rules, wanted her to let him cheat off of a college exam because "she owed him", and after she broke their engagement shows up at her bedroom window in the middle of the night with a revolver, telling her through the window that they are going to Vegas that night to be married. Not exactly Romeo at the balcony.
It's odd that Bonnie thought she had to apologize for running to her father's bedroom for his protection. Like she was supposed to handle this lunatic herself? She was lucky that night and so was dad. Whatever transpired, she never saw JJD again. Why is Bonnie's story important? Because JJD/GSK had said "I hate you Bonnie" while attacking one of his victims. So this woman is apologizing for not standing up to JJD herself, practically apologizing to the victims for even existing. It's funny how women of our generation - born in the 40's and 50s - belong halfway in the era post women's lib and halfway in the era when women were still on pedestals. And if we fell off it was always somehow our fault. I recognize the cultural confusion myself.
JJD was a police officer, even during some of the time he was terrorizing California. He was fired from the force after he was caught shoplifting items that, in retrospect, were not something that a grown man would steal. JJD had no history of stealing for fun. He had the means to pay for the items he stole. He stole a hammer and dog repellant.. And nobody on the force thought anything of it other than he had to go. Other than that, JJD lived an outwardly unremarkable life, even if neighbors found him to be weird.
In this episode, one of the survivors mentioned, "What? All these years he's been living the comfy middle class life he wrecked?". Of course he did. He wanted to destroy well ordered middle class lives. That was always his purpose. He wasn't after sex. He wasn't after stuff. He stole trifles of no value. He wanted to trash marriages and smash the sense of well being of his victims. He probably thought he got away with it all of those years, since being a cop himself he knew time was the perp's friend. But something happened he could not have figured on. DNA evidence. Oh drat! So careful about fingerprints and everything else, and as the science progressed, his apprehension depended only on somebody he did not know and never met loading a DNA sample into a genealogy database.
The guy has been play acting that he is an Alzheimer's patient since he was arrested. Then he went on a hunger strike. Because...what??? ... He thinks they are going to let him out under any circumstances??? He is the poster boy for no parole. Ever.
Back to the details of GSK's life. None of his relatives had a clue. He was a good father by all estimation. He had helped out a niece who had been a victim of abuse by giving her a place to live. And as a child, when living in Germany, his sister was raped in front of him by two soldiers. Maybe that is where JJD went off of his axis. The beginning of the making of a monster. Because by the time he was a young man he had big streaks of being a control freak. Bonnie, his former fiancee from back in the 60s, talked about how he liked to break the rules, wanted her to let him cheat off of a college exam because "she owed him", and after she broke their engagement shows up at her bedroom window in the middle of the night with a revolver, telling her through the window that they are going to Vegas that night to be married. Not exactly Romeo at the balcony.
It's odd that Bonnie thought she had to apologize for running to her father's bedroom for his protection. Like she was supposed to handle this lunatic herself? She was lucky that night and so was dad. Whatever transpired, she never saw JJD again. Why is Bonnie's story important? Because JJD/GSK had said "I hate you Bonnie" while attacking one of his victims. So this woman is apologizing for not standing up to JJD herself, practically apologizing to the victims for even existing. It's funny how women of our generation - born in the 40's and 50s - belong halfway in the era post women's lib and halfway in the era when women were still on pedestals. And if we fell off it was always somehow our fault. I recognize the cultural confusion myself.
JJD was a police officer, even during some of the time he was terrorizing California. He was fired from the force after he was caught shoplifting items that, in retrospect, were not something that a grown man would steal. JJD had no history of stealing for fun. He had the means to pay for the items he stole. He stole a hammer and dog repellant.. And nobody on the force thought anything of it other than he had to go. Other than that, JJD lived an outwardly unremarkable life, even if neighbors found him to be weird.
In this episode, one of the survivors mentioned, "What? All these years he's been living the comfy middle class life he wrecked?". Of course he did. He wanted to destroy well ordered middle class lives. That was always his purpose. He wasn't after sex. He wasn't after stuff. He stole trifles of no value. He wanted to trash marriages and smash the sense of well being of his victims. He probably thought he got away with it all of those years, since being a cop himself he knew time was the perp's friend. But something happened he could not have figured on. DNA evidence. Oh drat! So careful about fingerprints and everything else, and as the science progressed, his apprehension depended only on somebody he did not know and never met loading a DNA sample into a genealogy database.
