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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven
I had thought there was a law that prohibited criminals from making money from stuff like this.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

There's a little tiny Constitutional issue there, Hotch, and not a shred of an "imminent threat" cloud that might, on occasion, create the gray area where it might get trumped. Keep it legal, right up to the moment he finally reaches execution. This guy's partner in crime got paroled over coercion issues on his confession.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-serial-killer-20120212,0,7993233,full.story

This is one of those, "deal with the devil," situations, and I hope the families of the newly confirmed victims take every nickel, and his tv set.


Two childhood friends and locally renowned troublemakers, Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog, were eventually arrested in 1999 for a series of murders known as the "Speed Freak" killings, and many of the missing were presumed to have fallen victim to the methamphetamine-addled duo.

Shermantine and Herzog never disclosed where they dumped the mutilated corpses of their victims, leaving bereaved families with only grim speculation.

And then years later came an unusual offer: Shermantine would tell all for $33,000, enough to pay off his restitution order and buy a television and other comforts for his death row cell.