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‘The Confession Killer’ Review: Morbid Superstar

Written by Katherine Steinbach

Dec 05, 2019
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Lovers of true crime are always confronting the intersections of exceptional and everyday violence. In some ways, we are attracted to aberrant cases of horror so that we don’t have to think about more mundane influences of crime. Henry Lee Lucas is an excellent embodiment of this tension. He created a serial killer persona in order to bask in the attent…

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