Kiriakou's serial-killer letters
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Kiriakou's serial-killer letters were a series of letters John Kiriakou wrote to several well-known American serial killers as research for a planned book, drawing on his experience as an interviewer and interrogator. His correspondents included David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer, who murdered 49 prostitutes in eastern Washington State, the BTK killer, the "co-ed killer," and a member of the Manson family.

The responses

Kiriakou's first response came from Tex Watson of the Manson family, who asked him to help spread word that Watson had found Jesus. A subsequent letter from David Berkowitz was, in Kiriakou's account, also entirely about having found Jesus and read as insincere, "you could tell he was just going through the motions." Gary Leon Ridgway sent a thick envelope of religious pamphlets and asked Kiriakou to distribute them door-to-door in his own neighborhood, proclaiming that Ridgway had found Jesus.

What Kiriakou wanted to ask

Kiriakou says he wanted to ask the BTK killer, Dennis Rader, how he was able to stop killing for 14 years, get married, raise a family, and get elected president of his church council, before murdering a six-year-old girl and molesting her body. He describes the "co-ed killer" as having murdered his grandparents, his mother (who had abused and raped him), and six other women, decapitating his mother and having sex with her severed head. That killer, per Kiriakou, now works for Audible reading audiobooks.

See also

- John Kiriakou
