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Serial killers and murderers have fascinated storytellers and audiences across all entertainment mediums for generations. If we think about it, especially considering it's a theme explored in Fugue State 1986, some of the classic detective stories we read as children, written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Satyajit Ray, or Agatha Christie, dealt with rather gruesome murders. Since we weren't traumatized by them, we can say that reading them was fine, but the truth is, we've all consumed narratives centered on death from a very young age.  However, there's something about the analysis and fictionalization of real-life incidents through books, films, and television series that has always bothered me, especially if they don't directly condemn the criminal in question and instead offer something superficial like, "Oh, he was just a little misunderstood by society." And no one has done this kind of nonsense more than Ryan Murphy with his series Monster. Given how popul...