Murder-Satisfaction

 

All right, Pedro Alonso Lopez (1948-probably still alive) did have a difficult childhood, but that was not the fault of those young girls - mere children - he murdered. It wasn't even the fault of the mother he hated, the poor widow who had to turn prostitute to feed the 13 kids she gave birth to, most of them after the murder of her husband. I suspect that Pedro may have worshiped this dead father whom he never met, as he died some months before his birth. One thing is sure, the childhood home of young Pedro was steeped into violence and sexual sceneries of various art.

When you look into the face of Pedro he doesn't strike one as either dumb, nor violent, but it can't be denied that he did commit many dumb and violent crimes. Why did he "have to" murder more than 100 girls of 8-15 years of age? According to himself it was for his sexual fulfillment: He "needed" something like that to feel good.  

 

Rape was his game, but he himself was also raped at an early age. At that time he had run away from home, only 8 years old. Having to fend for himself in a poor and brutal world he may have been easy to get lured by a stranger, pretending to be his friend. This man was not the only one who abused him, as it happened several times. When he, in what looks like a miracle, was adopted by an American family it only lasted for a year or so. After stealing from them his excuse was that a male teacher had been harassing him sexually. When he was arrested for auto-theft he was raped in prison by four men, but killed three of them with a makeshift knife. Still, not even those continuous rapes are an excuse for what he did to those girls he killed for his own sexual satisfaction. According to himself he had killed many more than 100 girls over a couple of years after being released from prison. The exact number is not known, but there is no doubt about him being one of the worst serial killers at this time. If one takes his words as the truth, he killed 350 girls of 8-13 years.

He was arrested more than once, but when he was sentenced to 16 years of prison he was released two years before time. I find it very strange that he wasn't held in custody for the rest of his life, but somehow the police didn't quite trust his confessions. One of the reasons for that was that he sometimes said that not he, but someone else had committed the murders, and that he only was his helper. Something which hasn't been proven neither then nor now.

https://www.benthamscience.com/chapter/6940

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Don't Fence In this Tigress

 

I admit it: I like Eleanor Jarman (1901-???) although she was a criminal and did something I don't like. 

Eleanor was born into a large family of German descent. She had 9 surviving siblings, and, as might be expected, the family was poor. After dropping out of school because of the poverty of the family, she started to work as a waitress at the tender age of 12. When she married and had two children her husband left her after some years to live a life as the sole bread-winner. Maybe that was the reason why she let the criminal George Dale move in with her and her children. As it is, he did what he could to support the family, which unfortunately meant that Eleanor and her children now had to rely on his robbing small shop owners. 

In 1933, Eleanor took part in a robbery which led to the death of a shop owner who was shot by George Dale. Even though she didn't kill the unfortunate victim of George Dale and their associate, Leo Minneci, she was sentenced to 199 years in prison. 

 

I find that much too much, and so did she obviously as she only served 7 years before she, climbing a prison fence, escaped and vanished for good. This successful escape earned her a reputation as extremely devious and dangerous, something which I think is ridiculous. Yes, she took part in a robbery with a fatal outcome, and yes, she escaped, but she wasn't the "tigress" - or "superwoman" - that some newspapers dubbed her.  

For 35 years Eleanor let her family know that she was all right "somewhere out there" by posting coded messages in newspapers, but nobody knows for sure how she lived after her escape, and how she died. However, in 1975, when she was 74 years old, she had a secret meeting with her son, Leroy, one of her brothers and his wife, but after that she disappeared once more, never to be heard of again, except by her coded newspaper-messages, which didn't taper off until mid-1990s.

 

https://murderpedia.org/female.J/j/jarman-eleanor.htm 

 

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Forty Four Lives for One

 

When young, stupid Jack Gilbert Graham 1932-1957) decided to do something radical about his money situation, he obviously forgot to think - or he just didn't care because he was what Jeffrey Epstein said about Donald tRump: "He has no moral compass." 

Without a moral compass the death, not only of one's mother, but also of 43 strangers who had neither offended nor harmed him in any way. They were totally innocent in something like that, but still, he didn't stop to think that by killing his mother for money, he also robbed these people of their lives. No moral compass really is a serious "affliction" which turns some people positively dangerous. When one thinks about it, it's obvious that moral is a necessity in all human societies. I, for one, would rely more upon morals in my neighbors and anyone else than e.g. religion ....

As to his relationship with his mother, it was strained after she left him at an orphanage for several years. This was in The Depression, and the money was low after the death of Jack's father. At that time she was a poor widow who was to be married to husband No. 3. When he also died, she became a successful businesswoman and may have struck Jack as very rich. After being separated for several years they didn't really know each other. Not that that is an excuse, but still it may explain some of his callousness. 

Jack, who was married and the father of two young children, was only 23 years old when he was sentenced to, and met his well-deserved death, in the gas chamber. Most of his victims were older than that, but all of them had a life they were robbed of because of his greed and resentment of his mother.

https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?

 

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Poem by Else Cederborg: "Beef For Der Kaiser" (WWI)

 

Somehow everyone hailed the news of blood and honor
each of them convinced of victory
many of them didn't live to see how it went

The philosophy of World War I was a stinker
it turned living men into mourning shadows
debris in muddy trenches
boneless, lifeless, broken robots
a war the factory way
all of them machines to Der Kaiser
soldiers to him
sons or lovers to loving souls being robbed of their love

Victory the war way means blood
blood like rivulets in debris of human bodies

Whoever threw the first stone in the world?
Adam or the Stone Age monkey-man?
Maybe it all can be blamed on the snake?
Or maybe Eve?

Culprits or victims alike may bleed out their soul
sad blood run faster, drowning the world in red

 

ALL rights reserved © Else Cederborg

 

And yes, as you may have guessed I was thinking of tRump when I decided to post this "old" poem of mine .... 

 

 

 

Roy Cohn: As Evil As He Looks?

Poor Roy always looked sickly and downright evil. At least, I haven't seen any photos of him where he might be called a handsome man. When I'm thinking of the fact that this creature had a tremendous part in turning tRump into the mean individual, he has become, I'm ready to think that Roy's looks are the perfect symbol of what he really was, namely genuinely evil. However, I may be somewhat unfair to him, so that he is not quite the ogre I see him as.

They first met at a fashionable nightclub in 1973 where the lawyer and prosecutor Roy Cohn (1927-1986) was introduced to the young and very ambitious Donald J. Trump who decided to hire him to help the family with some legal problems. Roy, who was a closeted gay, had a penchant for young, blonde men, but the two of them are not assumed to have had a sexual relationship although they became extremely close. For instance, often they talked on the phone several times a day.   

 

The fame and status of Roy Cohn stems from his tough handling of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg-case and his being Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel in the Army-McCarthy-hearings. Both of these endeavors were centered on what was considered the ultimate threat at that time: Communism. 

His influence on Donald Trump was immense, and he not only represented, but also mentored him. However, he also represented many other clients, some in Catholic clergy, some in the political world, real estate as well as organized crime. At one point he was considered one of the best, but over the years his reputation waned. His career as a lawyer ended five weeks before his death from Aids when he was disbarred for unethical conduct: He had tried to fraud a dying client into making him his heir. 

There is no doubt about the bad character of Roy Cohn, and he taught tRump ways to exploit people and the system that did not exactly better what he may have of a soul. Being short, not in the least handsome as well as suffering from a botched pediatric surgery to modify the appearance of his nose which only left him with a rather prominent scar did not leave him with a "good hand" in the erotic game of the gay world. However, he was undeniable very smart as well as ruthless which sort of became his "trademark". 

In his private life he tended to focus on people who were what he himself wasn't, but the closest person to him was his mother whom he worshiped as much as she worshiped him, or maybe even more. As to his being gay, he really was closeted and he also denied suffering from the "gay-pest", Aids, which eventually killed him. No matter what, he did have some well-known romantic relationships, one of them being with the wealthy heir G. David Schine.

Roy Cohn with G. David Schine and gay-hater Joseph McCarthy

Being what he was, it must have been a very strange and not exactly pleasant experience to work with and for Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was adamant in his witch-hunt for and expulsion of gays. After ending his assignment with the gay-basher, McCarthy, Roy Cohn entered private practice as an attorney. His status as a lawyer was not the same as before, and he was indicted several times on various charges, but also he was acquitted. Actually, to me he seems to have steeped himself in what can't be seen otherwise than what he, as a representative of the law system, was supposed to fight, for instance blackmail. But then, in some respects, he was the man of contradictions: When the first rights of the gay citizens were being discussed, he said that homosexual teachers posed a grave threat to children.

 

At some point he tried his hand in politics, sort of "his way", namely e.g. using bribes to help others win. Interestingly enough he served as a helper for Ronald Reagan in his 1980-campaign. However, the most interesting part of his work, as seen from a 2026-angle, is what he did for tRump, for instance when he was accused of keeping black inhabitants out of his housing programs. He didn't win the case, but it may have given tRump some good ideas for the future. Anyway, his representing both tRump and the mobster Anthony Salerno came to play a role in the building of the so-called "Trump Tower. When he died, he had achieved what he had said was one of his main goals, namely to be totally broke  and owing millions to the IRS. That may be his form of defiance against the world, but it makes me think of what Epstein said about tRump and his lack of morals: 

 

  

https://www.cjr.org/first_person/twitter-roy-cohn-rosenbergs.php 

 

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240517-roy-cohn-the-mysterious-us-lawyer-who-helped-donald-trump-rise-to-power 

 

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240517-roy-cohn-the-mysterious-us-lawyer-who-helped-donald-trump-rise-to-power 

 

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/eavesdropping-on-roy-cohn-and-donald-trump 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/politics/donald-trump-roy-cohn.html 

 

https://www.tiktok.com/@star_boy20to80s/video/7362282792975125765?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7645166064573793814 

 

https://thebrokenelbow.com/2017/07/01/the-bizarre-world-of-donald-trump-and-roy-cohn/ 

 

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The Master Liar

Yes, we know it by now: tRump is the biggest fibber of all, at least for now, as politics - and religion - open up for the use of lies as "tools" and in the future there may come others who are even more expert in twisting the truth as they need to for their own selfish purposes. Hitler and Goebbels were mastering the liars-trade before tRump, but I think he has surpassed them by now. Nothing seems to stop him in lying when he finds that necessary. As his lies influence the lives of other people, and maybe even ruin them, I see them as malicious and unforgivable: No excuse! However there are liars who are more like authors of fairy tales, although their stories may not be as innocent as we assume, because they cross the line between truth and lies. As we know by now, that goes for religions of various art and some political systems ....

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard and her mother, DeeDee

These days the name of The Master Liar is known from a very famous mental illness, namely "Munchhausen by Proxy", and the special case of Gypsy-Rose Blanchard who murdered her mother for ruining her childhood by lying about her health situation. Poor Gypsy-Rose underwent multiple not-in-the-least necessary medical treatments because her mother needed to bask in the limelight as a maternal angel, taking good care of her poor, deadly sick child: All of it was lie, upon lie, upon lie - or one wonderful fairy tale upon another one.

 

As to "Munchhausen", whom this illness was named after, then he, in real life, was a German baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr vor Münchhausen (1720-1797) who fought the Turks much of his life as an adult. Some time around 1750 he changed into a home-loving host for his many friends who came to visit him and, most likely, also to listen to his many stories/lies about all the adventures that befell the fictitious figure, "Baron Munchhausen", that he turned himself into. This baron is an alter ego who was met with extreme dangers, and experienced unfathomable hazards that are very enjoyable to read about, namely because he always gets out of them alive.

 

Not only did he survive taking a ride on a cannon ball, but he also didn't fall prey to "The Grim Reaper" when he met him. At one time he escaped a swamp or a lake by grabbing hold of his hair, thus being able to pull his horse and himself up into safety. 

 

As it is this fictitious baron experienced such entertaining adventures that someone saw to it that they were published. Something he is assumed not to have been happy about, but they have nonetheless achieved their own literary fame, as well as having been turned into movies. People simply love this fairy tale-baron who got out of all kinds of scrapes which the real life Munchhausen didn't master as he died in 1790, seemingly having been worn out by his second and disastrous marriage. 

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001555.htm 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy-Rose_Blanchard  

 

 

https://www.giffonifilmfestival.it/en/sezioni-film-1990/2844-the-adventures-of-baron-munchausen.html 

 

 

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The Boundaries of Language

Wise words from Reddit, and I agree to a certain point: We experience the world in words, and they often can't cover what we see, feel, fear or are longing for. However, to convey our feelings to others, whatever they are, we also have to resort to words, which may not always do the job, so to speak. That means that both our own experience and our means of conveying it to others may not be clear to us because the words are faulty or not fitting: Absolutely, a double-trouble to everyone. 

The need of a mutual vocabulary is made evident when one has to learn and use a foreign language. There are "shades" in certain words or wordings that form a sort of "language in the language", telling the world that one doesn't command that particular language. That's when the people one is talking to come to realize that there may be grave misunderstandings afoot. An observation, which doesn't do much for the conversation.

And then there is body language. With the thumbs into his belt, tRump signals something on this line: "I'm a real man, and proud to be." His tiny hands are noticeable, but nothing one can blame him for even though he has an annoying way of waving them at people. As to his body tilt when standing, and his often rather wide turn of his torso when speaking then they indicate something that takes an interpretation, and more likely than not, some discussions.

When it comes to the meaning of particular words education and general knowledge are very important, and I admit that I'm very surprised at the extreme ignorance of many Americans. These people are far behind in fields that they should have been taught at school, but weren't. For instance, MAGA love to call everything they don't like "Communism" or "libtard", but they don't even know what these words mean. They're too uneducated to know that when they themselves demand that the government takes control of the means of production and prevent the free market from shutting down a failing plant, THAT's Communism. Because "Communism" has been turned into an insulting word which is used about a lot of things that's not even political it has no genuine meaning for them.

 

https://boobytrapec.blogspot.com/2025/11/hands-and-shoulders-telling-story.html 

 

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