Cold Case Killers you could relate to the most

[ninja1088]

Yes, it's another list (hope people don't mind) about Cold Case killers.
One of the great things Cold Case did was flesh out the killers. It wasn't just evil bad guys/gals but more often ordinary people. People that we can see ourselves in.
While obviously none of us here would kill anyone, there were many cases where I knew exactly where the killer was coming from. Here are mine.. what are yours?

Pin Up Girl - Betty Sue Baker - I know what it's like to have a friend that went through many of the same hardships you did, yet it seems that they're walking on water while you are struggling to keep your head above it.
Her final line to Rita was dead on. It DOES hurt how your friends can do so well while you're still struggling. But it's life,and it was no fault of Rita's or any of our friends that have made us feel that way from time to time.

Factory Girls - Nelson Miller - While Nelson may have been a bit sexist, IMO, his hatred of Alice's change wasn't the fact she wasn't the dutiful housewife anymore,but more the fact he wanted the things to be the way they were before he left. Before he saw all the things he did and he was injured.
He's no different than troops who have fought in other wars. Whether's it six months or six years, when they return, they want things to be the way they were before they left.
But you can't turn back the clock. Life goes on and people change...it's too bad for Nelson and Alice that he couldn't cope with that fact.

Libertyville - George Watson - I have a mild learning disablity so I understood 100% where George was coming from in his anger towards Julian. Julian may have been black but at the end of the day, he truly had no idea what life was really like for George and how all his hard work was ignored solely based on the color of his skin.
To have someone say they'll fight to make it right,they're on your side and they understand your problem can easily come across as patronizing,which is exactly how Julian came across to George at the end.
Another case where I could put myself in the killer's shoes and feel exactly as they felt.

[The Reverend Bizarre]

Here are mine.

Sabotage - Alessandro - I know what it's like to feel as if everything and everyone is against you. I know how frustrating it is when people refuse to help you, because of red tape. I know the aggravation that is felt when you feel as if people are trampling you down. However, I have of course never had the desire to make music box bombs. Alessandro is one of those cases where I understand why he did what he did, but I don't condone it. The people he killed were innocent, and possibly victims of the red tape as well.

that's the only one I can think of now.

[ninja1088]

Sept 5, 2010 14:27:59 GMT -5 The Reverend Bizarre said:

Here are mine.

Sabotage - Alessandro - I know what it's like to feel as if everything and everyone is against you. I know how frustrating it is when people refuse to help you, because of red tape. I know the aggravation that is felt when you feel as if people are trampling you down. However, I have of course never had the desire to make music box bombs. Alessandro is one of those cases where I understand why he did what he did, but I don't condone it. The people he killed were innocent, and possibly victims of the red tape as well.

that's the only one I can think of now.

Forgot him. I also have to include the killers from Rampage. Yes, Neal and Cameron were both ticking time bombs. But I could understand how they felt when the "cool" crowd was treating them like crap at the mall. I've been there and it really,really is humilating to be treated like that and feel like there's no one on your side. And what they did to Tina,inexcusable. I felt for all three of them in their desire to lash out.
Sadly for Tina, when she lit that fuse, she had no idea by then that Cameron and Neal had come to view it as us vs them, and that everyone was fair game in their minds. That included innocent people who had nothing to do with the treatment of them. And for the jocks, as big as %$#! as they were, it still doesn't give someone the right to murder them.

[nomnivore]

The sad thing about Pin Up Girl is that Betty Sue was actually really pretty herself. She wasn't ugly by any stretch. What she should have done is gotten away from Rita, then she'd have no problem being herself.

The Good Death- I've seen someone I love die painfully. Caroline did the right thing.

[valrush]

There were definitely killers I found sympathetic, but finding one I could relate to was tricky. In the end, I have to go with Brian? from 2-14: Revolution. As someone with a disability, I know how it feels to be "stuck". Even with my level of education, it was a long time before I found someone willing to give me a shot at meaningful employment. Years of frustration and failure in this regard landed me in a factory job that paid extremely low piecework wages (seriously, piecework is still legal in the U. S. . It is called a sheltered workshop; I wrote one of my Cold Cases about this).

I would also have to go with Tommy? from 6-4: Roller Girl. Having a crush on a friend is tricky, and i know how being told time and again "I just want to be friends" can actually feel more like an outright rejection.

I suppose I would also choose Caroline from 4-23: A Good Death. At some point, it just becomes more merciful to let someone go. My father suffered for years with a degenerative lung condition where he wound up on oxygen. His only hope at the end was a lung transplant, but you have to jump through so many hoops to even get a chance at a new organ. One of those hoops was some kind of scan on his heart that required anesthesia. He had an allergic reaction to this anesthesia, and by the time the doctors and nurses realized what had happened, it was too late to save him and my mother chose to unplug the machines. I learned two things from that experience: the health care system is a mess, and the Pet Cemetery guy was right, sometimes dead is better.