Hybristophiles are strange. I especially don't understand the ones who go after TJ Lane. Like, out of all the mass killers they could fawn over, they had to pick the literal gayest one? In prison he's been in gay relationship after gay relationship.
Literally the only one where it makes somewhat sense as to why someone would cream for them is Bundy. By all accounts, he was a charmeleon. Perfect at acting like a normal, charming man, and he wasn't a fat clown like Wayne Gacy or a socially awkward dweeb like Dahmer. Like or not, he was good-looking and went after young women because he knew how to charm them, which made him all the more dangerous.
Speaking of charm, I did get a shudder when DT mentioned how Lane and his prison daddy somehow managed to talk one of Lane's groupies into being a getaway driver when they escaped from prison, and I am so glad it never came to fruition because 100%, they would have murdered that girl.
But at the same time....what on earth made her think that would be a good idea? How even....? I know, groupies of these people don't operate on logic, but I can't fathom how someone doesn't just stop and think and look at the thousands of red flags waving harder than a communist parade in Maoist China.
The only thing that even makes his case noteworthy was his little courtroom outburst, wearing a t-shirt that he hand-wrote "KILLER" on, and saying to the families something along the lines of "the hand that pulled the trigger now masturbates to the memory." It's all so cringe.
The try-hardiness of that is what makes his tantrum a step from infuriating to hilarious. It's extra funny because he was apparently struggling to hold back tears.
Truly the poster child of Tumblr sexy-man.
Edit: when I think about it, since Lane was about to burst into tears, would he fall under the umbrella of "I can fix him!" as so many of those groupies operate with?