This is sick: Florida school shooting suspect gets 'piles' of fan letters

[mfcorey1]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - The suspect in the Florida high school shooting that killed 17 is getting letters of support in jail including fan mail and pictures of scantily-clad women in addition to hundreds of dollars in contributions to his commissary account.

Teenage girls, women and men are sending letters and photographs of themselves and Facebook groups have been started to discuss how to help Nikolas Cruz, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.
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Cruz is charged in the killings of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and is being held in the Broward County Jail. Prosecutors said they are seeking the death penalty.

The newspaper obtained copies of letters, including one from a woman who called Cruz "beautiful" and others with suggestive photos.

Cruz, who is on suicide watch, has not seen any of the letters, which are opened by the jail.

On March 15, a teenager sent a letter from Texas inside an envelope with happy faces and hearts.

"I'm 18-years-old. I'm a senior in high school. When I saw your picture on the television, something attracted me to you," the letter stated. "Your eyes are beautiful and the freckles on your face make you so handsome."

Another letter told Cruz to "Hang in there and keep your head up" and another mailed six days after the shooting said "I reserve the right to care about you, Nikolas!"

https://www.news4jax.com/news/florida-school-shooting-suspect-getting-piles-of-fan-mail

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Nothing unusual here. Equivalent response to the dirtbag who assassinated Rabin in Israel

while he was leading a prayer for peace. Fan letters, proposals of marriage, offers to have his baby.

[Sherman A1]

2. Years ago we had a Radio host in St. Louis

His name was John McCommick and did the overnight program on KMOX with jazz and old style color to his show. He was known as The Man Who Walks and Talks at Midnight. I would listen to his program on my 4am commute to work for the weather and the weird stories off the wire services. When he would hit one like this he would simply comment “There are more of them walking around than there are locked up.”

[dembotoz]

3. i like that

[Captain Stern]

6. "There are more of them walking around there are locked up"

That's true, and it's important to know.

Personally, I think 99.9% of us are 'good'. I don't mean 'good' as in we all do the right things every day, or have the desire, or empathy, to help our fellow countrymen. But, I think 99.9% of us aren't fucked up enough to fall in love with, or admire, a mass shooter, or serial killer.

That still leaves around 325,000 lunatics out there that are.......and a lot of them are pretty good at hiding that shit.









































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[Hortensis]

13. Right. Humanity will always have its duds and defectives.

330,000,000 people in America (and we're only 5% of the world's population).

Let's see the articles about the rest of the 330,000,000, right and left, who don't admire this defective. Oh, yeah: Boooooooooring. No one's paying for those.

[RandiFan1290]

4. He's a right wing hero

[raccoon]

5. There's a lot of sick people out there. What stupid women. nt

[nil desperandum]

7. It is indeed weird

and unfortunately not unique....the infamous Menendez brothers have both been married while in prison and received dozens of letters and such during their trial as well.

There is apparently something attractive for these people to certain individuals.

[Spouting1horn]

8. Even Ted Bundy

had throngs of women "supporters" outside the courthouse.

[nil desperandum]

9. Geez...

I hadn't been aware of that, but wow...sometimes when I read or hear these things I can't even imagine the thought process of the "admirers"....I guess that's a good thing.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. That, I Never Understood!

Women waiting in line to be the next victim of a psychopath? Can't even begin to get into the head of a female being a fan of a guy WHO KILLED WOMEN.

[FM123]

11. There are always more of those psycho sympathizers out there than we would like to believe.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. It's a very common phenomenon -- any criminal with passing notoriety will get letters like this.

There are plenty of theories why it happens; it's sad all around.