Serial Killer Harvey Glatman

Serial killer Harvey Glatman was BTK's role model.

I just learned this the other day.

I had never even heard of Harvey Glatman.

BTK was much more "prolific" than Glatman, ultimately.

Glatman killed less people.

Glatman was practicing auto-erotic asphyxiation with a rope strung through his bathtub drain and then around his neck when he was twelve.

He seemed to think what he did was funny.

Parts of Glatman's career were fictionalized by Jack Webb in the 1966 TV movie Dragnet. The film convinced TV executives to relaunch Dragnet as a TV series in 1967 for a four year run. Dragnet 1966, however, was not aired until 1969. It is notable for dialogue based on Glatman's own statements to police, including this:

Criminal: "The reason I killed those girls was 'cause they asked me to. (pause) They did; all of them."

Officer: "They asked you to."

Criminal: "Sure. They said they'd rather be dead than be with me."

I hope Harvey enjoyed the joke of the gas chamber just as much.

Harvey Glatman's Wikipedia article does not mention the BTK connection.

But I don't edit Wikipedia and B.T.K. actually lives for attention so fuck that.

Someone might tell him.

I think it's sick that serial killers can receive mail, have fans, etc.

Why doesn't Congress pass a law disenfranchising serial killers of privileges like that.

I remember seeing a site one time a few years back where they sold shit like that online...letters and drawings from serial killers, John Gacy's infamous clown paintings, etc.

I was so proud of that one guy that bought all of Gacy's artwork and burned it.

I'd write a letter to a serial killer.

If I knew how to send anthrax without killing anyone else.

Unfortunately, I don't.

And am fresh out of anthrax.

I had to use it all on my last therapist.

I'm joking!!

But seriously...this paragraph made me want to vomit in my mouth...

Beginning April 23, 2006, having reached "Incentive Level Two", Rader (BTK's real name is Dennis Rader) has been allowed to purchase and watch television, purchase and listen to the radio, receive and read magazines, and have other privileges for good behavior. The victims' families disagreed with this decision.