Obsessed with True Crime discussion

I just finished Deadly Seduction this morning, and there's something I just don't get at all about it. One of the many, many husbands of the central figure in this story was cashiered from the military after an accident left him in a coma for 3 weeks. His family got him a low-level job in a factory and sort of watched over him, especially after his wife died and they felt he would not be able to manage on his own. This impression of the guy as significantly impaired was only underlined when he totally failed to notice that his new wife was beating the living daylights out of his son, even after the kid had to be hospitalized for his injuries. Later, she hurt him so badly that they lost their parental rights and the guy still stayed with her. I thought, OK, this dude is missing so much of his attic insulation that he can't make decisions.

But at the end of the book they say what happened to the characters in the story after the jury's verdict, and it says this guy went on to attend law school. I found him easily online: https://www.lawyer.com/thomas-whited....

So, what can I say, except Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!

Has anyone closed a TC book with a burning question like this one?

Here's one I have left over from The Love-Murders of Harry F. Powers. The author indicated that bags and bags of mail came to the courthouse, police station and newspapers during these proceedings, some of them asking if they'd learned that the suspect had had anything to do with missing people they were looking for -- and some of them sounded very much like the killer's M.O. Were any of these people found? Were any of them connected to good old Harry? The author doesn't say.

Exactly which serial killer is the heaviest drinker? KWP offenses (Killing While Plastered) are incredibly common in the recreational-murder world, but the question of who had the highest EtOH tolerance remains open.

>> We know Jeff Dahmer drank a 12-pack a day just to get through, but did he drink more (or less) when he killed someone?

>> Ted Bundy blamed his killings on alcohol, and in fact he broke up with "Elizabeth Kendall" when she decided to get sober, which is almost diagnostic in itself. He said he needed to get likkered up before every killing. But HOW likkered up?

>> Des Nilsen said he needed to get "blinding drunk" on killing nights, and in fact he sometimes woke up after a blackout with a dead man in bed with him. How much booze did that require? (Especially on account of he's a Scotsman. Having a high alcohol tolerance is a matter of pride with that lot.)

>> The second-highest EtOH intake I ever read about -- and which led to the composition of this entry -- was the day of May Thompson's murder, when Eddie Leonski consumed 7 whiskeys on top of 30 beers. Yeah, that's the second highest.

>> The prizewinner as far as I know was another WWII killer, Neville Heath, who put away 5 whiskeys on top of 47 beers the day he killed Margery Gardner. By rights he should have been in a coma somewhere, in a puddle of puke, not charmingly luring a young woman to her death. Unlike Eddie, noted above, he never seemed drunk at all. But maybe he could drink even more than that and still function. Paull Hill, one of his biographers, even said he "never drank to excess" knowing full well that he pounded down the cocktails all the livelong day. That's an impressive tolerance.

And even these guys may be pikers compared to some of the barfly serial murderers out there. Randy Kraft was pulled over for erratic driving one fateful night, but after the officer saw the dead guy in the shotgun seat he appears to have forgotten all about breathalyzing the killer. Herb Baumeister lured victims to their doom by inviting them home for a nightcap. Levi Bellfield worked as a bar bouncer and was probably under the influence every day of the world. Gil Jordan was even known as the "alcohol murderer," and not because he was a teetotaler, peeps.

Who's the winner?

This is just a question I would love to see answered.