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One of many letters Rick receives from serial killers, this one from John
Gacy
Rick and Tobias on their first visit
with Elmer Wayne Henley
Rick and Tobias play "Serial Killer," a boardgame
Joe Coleman; Saints and Monsters
By WILLIAM L. HAMILTON 8/26/99
The New York Times
THERE'S little of the great 17th-century cabinets of curiosity, from hand-shaped carrots to human-faced pigs, that Joe Coleman, an artist, can't match in his 20th-century version.
Author and Expert on Serial Killers Who Relishes His Work
By KATE STONE LOMBARDI 3/28/99
The New York Times
There is little in Dr. Harold Schechter's demeanor to suggest someone immersed in the subjects of murder and gore, but his office decorations -- which include several skeletons, a small corpse on a stretcher, a rubber version of a dismembered foot and his complete collection of serial killer trading cards -- might provide a hint.
Imprisoned Serial Killer Is Punished for Art Sales
METRO DESK 9/18/99
The New York Times
A convicted serial killer was sent to solitary confinement for two years yesterday for having his autographs and artworks sold on the Internet.
Morbid Fascination
Worth Online
Who else but a funeral director would be the premier dealer of serial-killer art? Until the late 1980s, Rick Staton's pastime was innocuous enough--collecting, trading, and selling posters from old B movies. Then he read that John Wayne Gacy, one of history's worst serial killers, had taken up painting.
To Die For
The Houston Press
A mass murderer forges a strange union with Houston crime victims.
By Steve McVicker
The city of Houston wants to build a monument to victims of violent crime -- and mass murderer Elmer Wayne Henley wants to help pay for it with part of the proceeds from his second art show. Although the idea repulses the father of one of Henley's victims, city officials appear ready to accept the offer, even if not everyone involved is clear on exactly who Henley is.
Almost 25 years have passed since Henley and two of his buddies, Dean Corrl and David Brooks, first sexually tortured and then killed and buried 26 young Houston men in the summer of 1973.
Bloody Event Relics To Be Auctioned
By BEN FOX Associated Press Writer
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Armed with cash and a taste for the macabre, Cathee Shultz and J.D. Healy hope to buy a relic from the worst mass suicide in American history.