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    Vigilantes and the Media: 8 Horrific True Crime Stories of Vigilantes: Murder for Justice, #1
    Vigilantes and the Media: 8 Horrific True Crime Stories of Vigilantes: Murder for Justice, #1
    Vigilantes and the Media: 8 Horrific True Crime Stories of Vigilantes: Murder for Justice, #1
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    Vigilantes and the Media: 8 Horrific True Crime Stories of Vigilantes: Murder for Justice, #1

    By Ryan Becker and James Parker

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    Have you ever imagined the life of a vigilante to be exciting?
    Do you see them as righters of wrongs and seekers of justice?
    Or are they something more sinister?

    Vigilantes occupy a curious space in our collective psyche. On one hand, they are seen as almost modern knights, seeking truth and justice where the law has failed, while on the other they are no better than the criminals they seek, operating outside of normal societal
    conventions.

    In this book, Vigilantes and the Media: 8 Horrific True Crime Stories of Vigilantes, we examine the lives of real vigilantes who often had their own agendas, like:

    - Manuel Pardo Jr, who killed drug dealers and other criminals
    - Pedro Filho who tackled Brazil's murderers and rapists with a ruthless brutality
    - Patrick Drum, who killed pedophiles for fun
    - Bernard Goetz who became tired of New York's subway muggers and exacted his own revenge
    - Barry Gilton and Lupe Mercado who took revenge on a gang only for their own sordid lives to be revealed


    Each of the cases examined is true and each one of the vigilantes portrayed has their own shocking secret and motive behind their actions.

    Read on and be amazed at how these people took the law into their own hands, often for the most spurious of reasons and often for their own gain as well.

    What true crime readers are saying:

    ★★★★★ 'This book will either cement your opinion or make you think about what is really going on and what is sometimes a better system than the courts.'

    ★★★★★ 'I've never read a book about this subject before but I was happily kept busy reading from start to finish! Highly recommend if you're sick of the same stories'

    ★★★★★ 'I had not heard of any of the cases in the book before. Made a very interesting read. I liked it!'

    ★★★★★ 'Do people invent justifiable reasons to commit a crime? This is sometimes the case. It's something you keep asking yourself when you read this book. I enjoyed asking that a lot.'

    ★★★★★ 'Eight true crime tales that only Mr. Becker knows how to deliver. Check it out for yourself, you will not be disappointed.'

    ★★★★★ 'I have read some about these killers before, but Ryan always manages to find facts on the cases that I'm not familiar with. Thanks, Ryan for another great book!'

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSea Vision Publishing, LLC
    Release dateAug 28, 2019
    ISBN9781393845089
    Vigilantes and the Media: 8 Horrific True Crime Stories of Vigilantes: Murder for Justice, #1
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    Ryan Becker

    Ryan Becker aims to write all the stories he has read and watched and letting himself be taken into the world of true mysteries and psychological murder crime stories. He also wants to share his experience of his younger days with the readers on how he immersed himself with the dark reality of the world. He loves to tell a true story that will make you solve a puzzle on your mind. He is now living with his wife and two sons. Ideally, Ryan wants to leave a mark on the reader with his dark true crime stories. If you’d like to know more you can sign up to his newsletter to receive a FREE E-book at http://eepurl.com/cVsY-H

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      Vigilantes and the Media - Ryan Becker

      Vigilantes and the Media

      8 Horrific True Crime Stories of Vigilantes

      (Murder for Justice Volume 1)

      Ryan Becker, James Parker, and True Crime Seven

      Copyright © 2019 by Sea Vision Publishing

      All Rights Reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      Much research, from a variety of sources, has gone into the compilation of this material. We strive to keep the information up-to-date to the best knowledge of the author and publisher; the materials contained herein is factually correct. Neither the publisher nor author will be held responsible for any inaccuracies.

      Table of Contents

      Table of Contents

      Quick Note from the Author

      Introduction

      Chapter One: Mark Twitchell

      Catfishing for Art

      A Narrow Escape

      Dangerous Date

      Diary of A Dexter-Wannabe

      Artistic Differences

      Never Camera Shy

      Chapter Two: Manuel Pardo Jr.

      Spiraling Out of Control

      Taking Care of Business

      The Final Deal

      A Martyr for His Cause

      Chapter Three: Pedro Filho

      Violence Begets Violence

      Cold and Deadly

      A Killer Among Men

      Chapter Four: Michael Anthony Mullen

      Preying on Predators

      Triggering the Anger

      Easy Pickings

      Killer Confessions

      Chapter Five: Patrick Drum

      Friends or Not

      Fans of A Felon

      Chapter Six: Aileen Wuornos

      Growing Pains

      Petty Criminal Rising

      Shooting into Notoriety

      The Evolution of Confession

      Seeking the End

      The End Is Nigh’

      Chapter Seven: Bernhard Goetz

      The Known Scene

      Perspectives and Tales

      Significance of The Fifth Shot

      On the Run

      Explanations to Police

      The Public Response

      Trials and Testimonies

      Not Over Yet

      Chapter Eight: Barry Gilton and Lupe Mercado

      A Child Run Amiss

      Getting Rid of The Problem

      Support for The Parents

      Evidence of Premeditation and So Much More

      The Pot Calling the Kettle Black

      A Case of Irony

      Conclusion

      Acknowledgments

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      The Murderous Minds

      Quick Note from the Author

      Sensationalism and drama riddle the headlines on social media. Documentaries and movies are made from the perspective of criminals as well as from the perspective of the investigators. With the growth of instant sharing of videos, images, and stories, society has become enamored in having their opinion and voice added to any major topic. Although the ability to be judge and jury that social media now allows is on a much grander scale. The idea of criminals being portrayed in a skewed light is not new.

      Glorification, biased stances, and limited information have often been used to portray criminals in a light very different than how things may have actually occurred. This is even true when the criminals themselves can help spin the story to fit their narrative.

      Entertainment has its own shadow to cast over the facts of criminal behavior. Television shows and movies portraying vigilante justice and criminal masterminds that the audience can sympathize with tends to create fans of an idealized persona of a highly intellectual and misunderstood killer. Shows like Dexter and The Punisher utilize a fictional anti-hero with a respectable perspective, albeit a skewed morality, and place the question of how bad can a bad guy be if he hunts other bad guys? The truth is often never as clear as such television shows. A man that targets drug dealers may seem like a redeemable person, but what if the motive is to help his own position as a drug dealer himself?

      Along with the glorification of criminal acts is the victimization of the criminals. Citing histories of abuse, justification of murder in self-defense, and enhancing mental instabilities in order to gain the sympathy of society. Documentaries and movies alike have been known to take highly skewed versions of a criminal’s life in order to make entertainment in which the viewer sympathizes with the criminal, but some tend to show a side that was true but less known. Sad and horrible pasts that drive people to the brink until they snap and go after those that remind them of the pain they have been dealt with.

      We delve into some of those stories from the headlines.

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      VIGILANTES ARE SELF-appointed doers of justice, as defined by the Merriam-Weber dictionary. People who have taken it upon themselves to dole out justice for a crime, regardless of the laws that prevent such measures. Morality becomes a gray area for those who commit crimes, or so the law states, in order to punish a criminal or criminals for what they have done.

      Often the idea is to protect others from the criminals' continued behavior. Punish the pimp of underage girls so that he will never force another child into that life. Punish pedophiles, abusers of children, in such a way as they will never be able to access and harm another child ever again. At least that is the thinking.

      The following true crime stories are instances in which real-life people took justice into their own hands. All but one killed in their acts of vengeance. The other merely injured his victims to the point of never resuming normal life. The suspects in these tales are the vigilantes, the lawbreakers, even if their victims had broken laws as well. Murder is a crime, as is attempted murder. The only exception is a true self-defense scenario in which the action is done to protect one’s or another’s life in that moment with no other option. But these people did have options and could have made very different choices.

      Mark Twitchell sought to teach cheaters a lesson. He would lure them in and punish them, just as his adored figure Dexter did in the television show. Except Twitchell wasn’t luring real cheaters,

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