This thread is as good a place as any to mention The Discovery Channel's
"Most Evil" series.

It is NOT for the squeamish. It is NOT for children.
There are some disturbing (suggestive, not graphic) images, and
subject matter is frankly discussed.

But it's an unflinching look at killers, including commentary and
interviews with the monsters by forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone.
Current physiological studies (e.g., PET Scans) that
give indications of neurological bases for murderous tendencies
are also discussed.
(I'm afraid liberals will interpret the studies as an excuse for killers...
NOT ME!)

I think the series (about 6 episodes?) is beginning a re-airing Thursday
at 10PM Eastern on The Discovery Channel.

Update to All

Kidnapped girl kept diary during her 8-year ordeal - World - Times Online

Kidnapped girl kept diary during her eight-year ordeal

By Michael Leidig in Vienna

Natascha aged 10. Police will question her on Monday. PHOTO: CAMERA PRESS

NATASCHA KAMPUSCH, who was kidnapped at the age of 10 and held for eight years until she escaped her captor in Vienna this week, kept a diary throughout her ordeal, it was revealed yesterday.

Rupert Leutgeb, a family spokesman, confirmed that Fräulein Kampusch had kept a record hundreds of pages long. He said that no details would be disclosed until Fräulein Kampusch decided what she wanted to do with the diary.

The revelation came after police announced that DNA analysis had established beyond doubt that the young woman who was found distraught in a garden on Wednesday is Fräulein Kampusch.

Nikolaus Koch, head of the police taskforce “Natascha”, said that she would not be questioned until Monday. Until then the police will focus on evidence in the cellar in Stasshof, 15 miles from Vienna, where she had been kept, as well as the house and garden.

They are requestioning the female witness of the kidnapping in 1998 — now aged 20 — to discover if Fräulein Kampusch’s captor, Wolfgang Priklopil, had an accomplice.

Herr Koch explained that on the day that Fräulein Kampusch escaped, Priklopil was making her vacuum his car, which was parked in the garden. He received a phone call but the vacuum cleaner was too loud for a conversation, so he moved away from the car.

Fräulein Kampusch saw her opportunity and fled. Priklopil committed suicide soon after.

Yesterday police allowed photographers into the room where Fräulein Kampusch was kept. It was so low that, according to police reports, she could no longer stand upright. She weighed just 42kg (93lb), less than before her disappearance, despite having grown 15cm to 160cm (5ft 3in).

The witness to be re-examined said, when 12, that she had seen Fräulein Kampusch being driven away by two men in a white minivan with a Gänserndorf district numberplate. That statement has been backed up by Fräulein Kampusch’s description.

The witness said that she had seen the girl walking to school at 7.15am on March 2, 1998, on Rennbahnweg in Vienna, where Natascha lived. The witness told police that there was a white minivan parked on the right of the street.

As the girl walked past, a man aged between 20 and 40 jumped out and bundled her in the back, while a second man, whom the witness did not get a good look at, drove the van off.

More than 700 minivan owners were questioned, including Priklopil, but police dismissed him as a suspect after he claimed to need his minivan to transport construction debris.

Fräulein Kampusch’s complex family situation has been clarified. Her family name — Kampusch — is the maiden name of her mother, Brigitta Sirny. Sirny comes from her mother’s first marriage, which ended “many years ago”.

When the Sirnys split, Brigitta met Ludwig Koch, a baker, and in 1988 gave birth to Natascha. Because the pair were not married the girl was given her mother’s maiden name, following Austrian law.

When the pair split after a few years, the girl lived with her mother and her new boyfriend but spent weekends at her father’s holiday house in Hungary. Her father later married a Hungarian woman.

The neighbour who found Fräulein Kampusch in her garden said: “She was just suddenly standing in front of my kitchen window, panicking, white in the face and shaking.”

After being reunited, her father said that his daughter had asked him: “Daddy, do you still have my toy car?” Herr Koch told her that he had kept it, along with all her dolls.

Sabine Freudenberger, the first police officer to speak to Fräulein Kampusch, said that she was astonished by her “intelligence, her vocabulary”.

Thank you very much for the information about the Most Evil series...it sounds very interesting!
Even though I don't get cable TV at the stoat cave (Tv's leftist spin makes me ill) I iwill look into seeing it.

Thank you!

FYI I was able to score a copy of an episode of the Most Evil series today and I've just finished watching it. If all episodes are as excellent as the one I saw I would want to recommend it to any mature adult.
The episode that I saw was on Vlad the Impaler (Dracula) and it was utterly spellbinding, in that it brought me a tremendously greater understanding of Vlad than I had had before. I hadn't been aware that Vlad had learned about impalement from the Ottoman Turks (ISLAM) and the circumstances of the times 'almost' justified what he did during his reign. His kingdom was under seige from two sides, and he needed an effective method of maintaining order and of gaining loyalty from his subjects, and also of defending his (Christian) kingdom against vastly superior (MUSLIM) armies.

Highly recommended, and thanks again for the GREAT recommendation!