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On Christmas Eve of 1990, Thomas J. Grasso broke into the home of 87-year-old, Hilda Johnson, and strangled her to death with her own Christmas tree lights. He then stole a measly $12 and her TV. Grasso then moved to New York with his wife, Lana, where he broke into the home of 81-year-old, Leslie Holtz, and strangled him to death and stole his Social Security check. Grasso was sentenced to death. After making a number of bizarre statements on the day of his execution, he had a last meal of steamed mussles, steamed clams, a double cheeseburger from Burger King, a half-dozen barbecued spare ribs, two strawberry milkshakes, pumpkin pie with whipped cream, diced strawberries, and a 16-ounce can of spaghetti with meatballs which was served at room temperature. His last words before being executed by lethal injection were:

“I did not get my SpaghettiOs, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.“

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25-year-old Richard R. Banyots has not been seen or heard from since November 3, 1985. He was living in Girard, Ohio with his brother and mother. He had made a phone call that evening in his bedroom. It is unknown who he had been calling. After the call ended, Banyots suddenly left his home at roughly 8:30pm. Before leaving, he told them that he would be back by 11 pm. However, he would never arrive home.

Banyots was last known to be in Youngstown, a city southeast of Girard located near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. He had gone to a brothel and spent time with a girl, Michelle Miller. At the time, they were hanging out in an upstairs room at the brothel. However, once going downstairs, he was confronted by two men; Clarence Coleman and Jerome Davis. They whipped, robbed, and stuffed Banyots into the back of their truck. Davis, Coleman, Miller, and another girl rode in the truck to an area along a river in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. The river was around 80 miles (129 km) from Youngstown. After arriving, Coleman shot Banyots in the head, using the river to dispose of his body. However, all searches of the river prompted no results.

In February 1987, Davis was charged with aggravated robbery and kidnapping. The charges were later changed to murder. Coleman received a first-degree murder charge in June of that year. Along with this, they were charged for theft, conspiracy, kidnapping, and robbery. Both men were sentenced to life in prison without parole. Miller was not charged with the homicide. Instead, she was charged with criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, and robbery. She was sentenced to 35 to 70 years in jail. Despite efforts to find Banyots, he remains missing.

Richard R. Banyots is a white male who was 25 when he vanished. He stood between 5′10″-6′3″ (177-190 cm), weighed between 175-185 pounds (79-83 kg), and had blond hair and brown eyes. Foul play is suspected due to the circumstances involved. However, if he is alive, he would be 52 years old. If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of Richard Banyots, please contact the Youngstown Police Department at 330-747-7911.

Sources: 1, 2, 3

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An excerpt from from the confession of ‘Crossbow Cannibal’ Stephen Griffiths, who murdered 3 prostitutes in Bradford, UK, between 2009 and 2010. After shooting the women in the head with a crossbow, Griffiths would dismember their bodies and eat parts of their flesh.  The remains of one of his victims has never been found.

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“I’d like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my ass.”

Johnny Frank Garrett was a juvenile convicted and sentenced to death for the brutal rape and murder of nun Sister Tadea Benz on Halloween night in 1981.

In the very early hours of 31st October, 17 year old Johnny Garrett allegedly slipped out of his home in Amarillo, Texas and headed across the street to St. Francis Convent with the intention of breaking in and stealing. While Garrett scoured the premises in the dark to find a way inside, 76 year old Sister Benz was settled and resting for the night in her second-floor room. Garrett made his way inside by putting through a window, and then proceeded to enter the victim’s bedroom where he raped, stabbed and strangled her to death.

Sister Benz was discovered the next morning by another nun around 7am, after she failed to attend mass that morning. Nine days later, on 9th November, fingerprints taken from Johnny Garrett during a previous burglary case were found to match fingerprints taken from inside the convent, therefore implicating his presence in the building and ultimately his involvement in the Sister’s murder. As a result, Garrett was arrested and charged that same day.

Throughout his childhood, Garrett was horrifically sexually exploited and abused by his stepfather. He was hired out to other unknown men for sex as a child, and was also forced into participating in pornographic home movies during his teen years. As well as the ongoing sexual abuse, Johnny was plied with alcohol and hard drugs from the age of 10 - including amphetamines and paint thinner - which went on to severely affect his psychological development. As well as experiences of rape and forced substance consumption, Garrett was frequently beaten and even burned, which caused severe and permanent scarring. 

Three separate mental health examinations concluded that Garrett was suffering from brain damage and mental impairment to an extreme extent due to the injuries and abuse he endured as a child. One such expert described his case as “one of the most virulent histories of abuse and neglect I have encountered in over 28 years of practice.“ It was a significant failure that the adverse details of Garrett’s upbringing were not made available to the jury that condemned him to die. 

Although the nuns from Sister Benz’s convent and Pope John Paul II himself appealed for mercy on Garrett’s behalf, the clemency hearings proved unsuccessful and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted unanimously to not commute the death sentence to life imprisonment. As a result, Johnny Garrett received the lethal injection on 11th February, 1992. Asked if he had any final words, he replied: “I’d like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my ass.” Due to the fact that Garrett was a juvenile and also severely mentally unstable, the state of Texas was widely condemned for allowing the execution to go ahead. 

A movie named “Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word” was released in 2016, which is based on the murder of Sister Tadea Benz and details the events leading up to Garrett’s arrest and subsequent execution. The film implicates that the actual perpetrator may have been a 54 year old Cuban refugee named Leoncio Perez Rueda, who was convicted in 2005 for a rape and murder carried out in the same town of Amarillo, and also at a similar time in July 1981. 

Johnny Garrett always maintained his innocent, right up to being strapped onto a gurney and executed.

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"Death is the only thing that is going to stop me" -Eddie Wynn

On the morning of August 29, 1995 in Goldsboro, North Carolina, petite 17 year old Machelle Wynn was walking her usual route to Goldsboro High School.

When Machelle didn't show up for school and didn't return home that afternoon the police were alerted.

The deceased body of Machelle Wynn was found along a wood line near a road on the east side of the town. Police suspect sometime along her way to school an unidentified person abducted Machelle, strangled her, and left her there to die.

Unfortunately police state there wasn't a lot of evidence to obtain from the scene.

But, the lack of investigation from police hasn't deterred Machelle's father, Eddie Wynn.

For the last 25 years Eddie has continued the search for his daughters killer. He said in an interview with local news station, "I believe the circumstances she was found in, there was at least two people. One probably did it. The other is a witness. I want that person to call."

Eddie continued to post flyers around the area in hopes of the information persuading someone to finally give the police and the Wynn family answers.

Sadly, Eddie Wynn passed away in September 2020

As of 2020, Machelle Wynn's death remains an unsolved case.

If anyone has any information please call 1-866-439-2683

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“Ted Bundy wasn’t a Charles Manson type person. He was the guy next door. He was the guy you’d meet up at the University of Utah and have coffee with, and be intrigued by him. And at that moment I realized how so many girls went with him, and that scared me.” - reporter Barbara Grossman

TED BUNDY: FALLING FOR A KILLER(2020)

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Police photographs that were taken at Dennis Nilsen’s flat at 23D Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill, London, in February 1983. On February 8th, tenants of Cranley Gardens had complained that the drains of the apartment complex were blocked, which led to a Dyno-rod employee discovering organic, flesh-like material which was clogging the drains.

Pictured above is Nilsen’s kitchen with the sink in which Nilsen drowned some of his victims, as well as some of the bin-bags he hid in a bedroom closet, containing human limbs and internal organs.

Nilsen, who has been dubbed “the British Jeffrey Dahmer”, was found to have murdered at least 15 young men between 1978 and 1983.

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The Oakland County Child Killer

Between February 1976 and March 1977, four children were abducted in Oakland County, Michigan (USA). Their bodies were later discovered in different public places, and each had been disposed of in similar circumstances. Based on this, authorities became confident that the same person was responsible for each death, triggering the pursuit of a child rapist and serial killer. 

Mark Stebbins was just 12 years old when he didn’t return home on 15th February, 1976. After a frantic search which lasted for four days, his body was found dumped in a mound of snow next to an office car park. Although he was discovered fully-clothed in the same outfit he was last seen in, he had been sexually assaulted with an unknown object. There was also evidence of rope marks which indicated his wrists and ankles had been bound during his ordeal. Mark had also suffered two lacerations to the back of his head, but his eventual cause of death was ruled as strangulation.

Jill Robinson was also 12 years of age when she left her home on 22nd December, 1976, after having a petty argument with her mother. Her bicycle was found the following day abandoned outside of a local shop, and her body was discovered on 26th December, again four days after the disappearance. Similarly to Mark, her body had also been laid out neatly and fully-clothed in the snow. This time, likely as a deliberate taunt by the killer, the body had been placed within sight of a police station. Unlike Mark, there was no visible evidence that Jill had been sexually assaulted, and another key difference was that she had been shot in the face with a shotgun instead of strangled. Notably, Jill was the only child to have suffered a gunshot wound, and there is a theory for why this may be. She had confided to her mother in the past about a fear of somebody shooting her, and she constantly felt that it was a fate she was going to suffer. It could be that Jill had panicked and divulged this information to her abductor, and so it was specifically chosen as a method of murdering her.

Kristine Mihelich was the youngest of the four victims at just 10 years old. Just one week after Jill’s body was discovered, Kristine was reported missing on 2nd January, 1977, after she failed to return home from a local store. After 19 days of searching, a postman discovered Kristine’s body while on his route in a rural village, again fully dressed out and laid out in the snow. Her body lay within plain sight of nearby homes, and further examination showed that she had been smothered to death just less than 24 hours before she was found. Like Jill, Kristine had also not visibly endured sexual abuse prior to or after her death.

Timothy King was 11 years old when he set off from home with his skateboard on 16th March, 1977, to buy sweets from a local shop. When he failed to return home, a huge search ensued, but sadly his body was found 6 days later on 22nd March by teenagers walking alongside a public road. Timothy had been dumped there in a shallow ditch, and an examination of his body showed he had suffered a similar fate to Mark. He had been sexually assaulted with a foreign object and suffocated approximately just six hours before he was found. A closer inspection of Timothy’s body showed that he had eaten chicken prior to being murdered, showing that he was kept alive and fed by his abductor for at least some time. His skateboard had been placed neatly next to his body, and also it was clear that his clothes had been cleaned and ironed. Following appeals for information, a woman came forward and claimed she saw Timothy holding his skateboard and talking to an older man in the car park behind the shop where he was last seen. Not only was she able to describe the suspect - a white male aged between 25 and 35 with unkempt hair and sideburns - but she also recalled that he drove a blue AMC Gremlin with white stripes on the side. 

In total, authorities received in excess of 18,000 tip-offs, all of which resulted in around 24 arrests and the significant dismantling of a child pornography ring spanning multiple states. However, despite releasing the female witness’ description of the suspect and his vehicle to the public, no arrests made in connection to the deaths of the four children came to any fruition, and to this day nobody has been convicted for the murders.

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"The Influence of Columbine" by psychologist Peter Langman. The lines show the paths of influence of various killers after the Columbine Massacre

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Random Fact 54.

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Claus Berggren was a murderer who was obsessed with the name Connie. All of his victims were women named Connie but not always spelled the same.

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The mysterious mishandeling of Kendrick Johnsons’ homicide case (03/26/18)

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On Tuesday, 1 June 2004, at Sasebo Elementary School, an 11-year-old girl killed her classmate, then returned to her home room in bloodied clothes. The victim, Satomi Miratai, died later that day. On the far left of the above image, wearing glasses and a green sweatshirt, Satomi stood grinning, giving a victory sign to the camera. Right next to her, with an inexplicable expression on her face, stood the killer— Nevada. She became known on internet forums as Nevada-tan because of the only known image of her above.

Satomi was led to an empty classroom where Nevada-tan covered her eyes and slit her throat with a box cutter. She was sent to a reformatory because of her young age.

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ANDREI ROMANOV CHIKATILO

The Butcher Of Rostov

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo, or The Butcher Of Rostov, as he would come to be known, was a Soviet serial killer who murdered at least 50 people between 1978 and 1990. I've chosen to discuss this case mostly due to the political side of the case, as the countries communist views actively got in the way of the case. In the Soviet Union at this time their ideology asserted that serial murder was impossible in a communist society, making it even harder for the police to protect the people of Rostov.

Chikatilo was born on the 16th of October 1936 is Yablochnoye, Ukraine. Growing up in Ukraine at this time was extremely difficult, since the country was still dealing with the aftermath of an extreme famine which led to millions of deaths, and people resorting to cannibalism in order to survive. In fact, during his childhood Chikatilo would be told frequently by his mother that he had actually had an older brother, but he had been kidnapped and actually eaten by the townsfolk during the worst of the famine. While this story could never be officially verified it is believed that this story is actually what motivated Chikatilo to cannibalise some of his victims. He was an avid reader, and his favourite books to read would become heavily inspired by his own life. During the second World War, Chikatilos father was conscripted to fight in the war against Germany, at which time he was actually kept prisoner. His father was vilified when he eventually returned home, which would in turn affect Chikatilo. He was brutally bullied by his schoolmates because of his father's perceived cowardice. After his father's return Chikatilo began to develop an interest in stories about how German soldiers had been tortured by their Soviet captors during WWII.

However his surroundings would not be Chikatilos only issue. It is believed that Chikatilo was born with hydrocephalus (water on the brain) at birth, which would cause several issues for Chikatilo. One of the most noticeable problems caused was his genital - urinary issues, which would cause bedwetting quite late into his life. It is believed that Chikatilo wet the bed until at least his late adolescence if not his wary adulthood. These genital - urinary issues would also cause Chikatilo to be unable to sustain an eretion later in life.

At 15 years old, Chikatilo experienced what would be his only sexual experience during his adolescence. Chikatilo attempted to overpower a young girl, and he acyally ejaculated almost immediately during the short struggle. Instead of taking this seriously, getting him help or telling anyone what had happened, his schoolmates instead just began to bully him even more aggressively than before. It is believed by psychologists that this event is what triggered Chikatilo to conflate violence and sex, a trait which would stick with him forever.

After failing his entrance exam to the Moscow State University, and completing a brief spell of military service, Chikatilo moved to a town near Rostiv-na-Donu with his younger sister where he got a job as a telephone engineer and married a local girl called Fayima whom his sister had actually introduced him to. Finally, in 1971 he managed to get himself a degree from Rostov Liberal Arts University and managed to get himself a pretty good job as a teacher. However Chikatilo was forced to move from school to school doolowed by complaint after complaint of sexual assault from his young students and their parents. However nothing official was done about this and he ended up settling at a mining school in Rostov.

Chikatilos first documented murder victim was 9 year old Lena Zakotnova. Lena was lured into a shed by Chikatilo, where he then attempted to rape the young girl, during the attack Chikatilo slashed at the young girl with his knife, ejaculating as he did so, confirming his psychological connection between violence and sex, which would go on to become a component in all of his attacks.

There's was actually a witness during this investigation, who claimed to have seen Chikatilo with Lena not long before she disappeared, however despite police taking this seriously and investigating it, they would get nowhere. Fayima provided him with a strong alibi which enabled the killer to avoid any further suspicion in regards to this crime. Desperate to make an arrest in this case, the police arrested a 25 year old man who had a previous rape conviction, Alexsandr Kravchenko. After a brutal and extended interrogation by desperate police, Alexsandr actually confessed under duress for this crime that he didn't commit. He was tries for the murder and in 1984, he was actually executed, and Chikatilo got away with his heinous first murder.

However the close brush with the law clearly got to Chikatilo, and as far as we know today, Chikatilo didn't kill anyone else for 3 years. Tragically though, he hadn't stopped committing crimes. Accusations of sexual assault and abuse kept popping up and finally in 1981 he lost his job at the mining school he had been working at and was unable to find another teaching positions because of this long list of previous accusations. Instead, Chikatilo began working as a clerk for a raw materials factory in Rostov. This should have been a good thing right? Since his access to children had been taken away? Tragically this was not the case. Chikatilos new job involved huge amounts of travel which would give him pretty much unlimited access to a multitude of young victims over the next 9 years.

Larisa Tkachenko, 17, would be Chikatilos next victim. On the 3rd of September 1981 Chikatilo gagged the young girl with dirt and leaves to prevent her from screaming before strangling and stabbing the young girl. The brutal force used is what gave Chikatilo the satisfaction he longed for and the murderer had started to form his own twisted MO.

Chikatilo would find young runaways, usually at train stations or bus stops, before luring the girls and boys into forests and woodlands nearby before beginning his attack. Chikatilo would attempt to rape his victims but due to his inability to sustain an eretion, he began to instead use a substitution, a knife. In a nber of cases, Chikatilo would actually eat the sexual organs of his victims, or remove other body parts like the tip of the tongue or the nose. However, in his earlier cases somothing which was almost always present, was the fact that Chikatilo would target his victims eyes. Slashing and even removing the eyeballs of his victims. Chikatilo would later claim that he did this because he believed the eyes of his victims held an imprint of his face, even on death.

Serial killers were not a very well known phenomenon in the Soviet Union at this time. This was down to a combination of cultural differences and most noticeably the suppression of information at the time, especially information about murder or child abuse cases, in an attempt to maintain public order.

However the Soviet authorities couldn't Bury their heads in the sand when it came to Chikatilos crimes. The similarities in all the attacks, especially the eye mutilation during earlier attacks, was to to much to deny or ignore, and the authorities were forced to face the fact that there was a serial killer operation in Rostov, and a particularly brutal one as that. The media coverage was minimal, but that didn't stop the speculation of the people in Rostov, and rumours of foreign plots and incredibly, werewolves, began to circulate the area, and fears really began to grow.

Major Mikhail Fetisov was transferred to Rostov in 1983 in order to take control of the investigation. Having no doubt in his mind that there was a serial killer on the loose, Mikhail Brought in specialist forensic analyst Victor Burakov to head the investigation in Shakhty. The investigation centered on convicted sex offenders and the 'mentally ill' but the interrogation methods used by investigators at this timeed to a large number of confessions that Burakov was hesitant to believe since they were likely made under duress like Alexsandrs had been. At this stage in the investigation, police had no idea how many murders had actually taken place since not all of the bodies had been discovered, but they did know one thing, with each new body came more and more forensic evidence. The police were operating under the believe that the murderer was blood typed AB due to the semen samples thst were discovered at several crime scenes. Chikatilos blood typed was actuallt type A, but he happened to be a part of a minority group called 'non secretors' which meant that his blood type could not be found out from anything other than a blood sample. The police also had hair samples, since multiple identical grey hairs had been found at several of the crime scenes also.

There were 15 more victims during the course of 1984 and the police efforts intensified drastit, mounting massive surveillance operations canvassing most of the bus stops and train stations in the area. Incredibly this actually did lead to Chikatilos arrest after he was seen behaving very suspiciously at one of the bus stations that were under surveillance. He was imprisoned for just 3 months for a number of minor offenses, but since his blood type didn't match their suspect, (due to his non secretor status) he evaded suspicion for his crimes once again. If this crime had taken place in present day, this would likely have been it, this would probably have led to Chikatilo being discovered as murderer due to the advances in forensics.

After being released from his 3 month sentence he found work in Novocherkassk as a travelling buyer for a train company, and as far as I could find he didn't commit another killing, or any crimes for that matter until 1985, when he murdered two women in two separate incidents.

Burakov was growing frustrated with the case, and another specialist was brought in in an attempt to further assist the investigation. This time it was psychiatrist Alexandr Bukhanovskys turn to help investigators by refining the profile of the murderer. Bukhanovskys defined the killer as a 'necro-sadist' and placed the mans age as between 40-50 years of age, which was a fair bit older than the police had believed him to be previously. Burakov was so desperate to bring this sick killer to justice, and he actually made the decision to visit and interview serial killer Anatoly Slivko shortly before he was executed, in an attempt to get inside of the mind of someone who was capable of committing such heinous crimes.

Around the time of this interview, the attacks seemed to stop. As usually happens when serial killers have breaks in their crimes, the police theorised that one of three things had happened, either he had stopped killing, been arrested for unrelated crimes, or that he had died. However, in 1988, he was back, with a slightly altered MO. This time he was keeping his attacks outside of Rostov and he was no longer finding his victims at bus stops and train stations like he used to. Chikatilo killed a documented 19 people over the next two years, and he seemed to be killing much more irrationally than he used to, and taking bigger risks than he had previously. He was now focusing primarily on young boys. And his crimes would often take place in locations thst were pretty public, and at a higher risk of discovery.

Massive pressure was now being put on the police in the area, and police were patrolling the streets almost constantly which did little more than make people feel a bit safer at first. Burakov then brought in ununiformed officers to patrol likely areas. Chikatilo had actually evaded capture on several occasions, but his luck would soon run out. On the 6th of November, shortly after killing his final victim Sveta Korostik, he was noticed by patrolling police station due t oh his suspicious behaviour. His information was taken and when he was linked to his arrest back in 198r, Chikatilo was put under surveillance.

Chikatilo was finally arrested on the 20th November 1990 due to even more suspicious behavior but he refused to speak. This was when Burakov had an idea, he allowed Bukhanovski to interview Chikatilo, claiming that he wanted Chikatilos help to try and understand the mind of a seru killer from a scientific perspective. This 'flattery' was all it took for Chikatilo to open up to the psychiatrist. He gave Bukhanovski very detailed descriptions of his crimes, and even led the police to previously undiscovers bodies. He claimed to have taken the lives of 56 victims but only 53 could officially be verified. The police had no clue that there were so many victims, they had only linked 36 murders before this.

Chikatilo was deemed fit to stand trial and on the 14th of April 11992 he was taken to court. The killer was kept in an iron cage for the duration of the trial to keep him away from the families of his victims and to be be honest, to keep him away from everyone in the room. He was referred to as 'The Maniac' by the media due to his behaviour in court. His behaviour ranged from bored to manic, singing,talking gibberish and pulling his trousers down in the middle of court. The judge residing over the wasn't exactly impartial, he often overruled Chikatilos lawyer and it was very clear that he'd already decided that Chikatilo was guilty. However despite this, there would not be a verdict on the case for another two months. On the 15th of October 1992, Chikatilo was found guilty of 52 murders, and sentenced to death 52 times.

Chikatilo appealed his conviction, claiming that his psychological evaluation was biased and that he was never fit to stand trial to begin with, but his appeal was denied, and 16 months later, on the 14th of February 1994, he was executed by a shot to the back of his head.

A positive not to end, Alexandr Bukhanovsky, the psychiatrist who was viral during the investigation, actually went on to become a celebrated expert on sexual disorders and serial killers.

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it looks like all the main informational true crime blogs got purged the same day/around the same day mine did. 

i said i wasnt going to post mainly true crime, but now it seems like its left a vacuum for true crime information -- so, i’ll be back on the grind again, but being extra careful not to violate guidelines. 

please like or reblog if you post true crime things still

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well, folks, even the mighty fall

my original account was @dahmerrr213 ... and then it was deleted without warning by tumblr for glorifying and encouraging violence. if any of you followed me, you’d know that was far from the truth. i tried to contact them, but they have ignored me so far. 

anyway, i’ll be posting here now -- with a more diverse array of posts -- so feel free to follow me.