IF YOU’RE NOT LIKE ME I MIGHT BE
GUNNING FOR YOU
Unlike
the rest of the serial killer books I’ve read/reviewed before written by Jack
Rosewood, the true story of Joseph Paul Franklin is quite different. While all
of the author’s other serial killers he had covered had received some
psychological or sexual satisfaction with victims they’d murdered.
Joseph
Paul Franklin was a drifter who roamed the east coast of the United States
looking for opportunities to “cleanse the world” of those he felt were
inferior, particularly blacks and Jews; and especially interracial couples. His
apparent means of support supposedly came from bank robberies and which he
supplemented by getting paid for blood donations; unfortunately or fortunately,
depending on how you want to look at it, led to his subsequent capture by the
FBI.
The
two most prominent of his victims were magazine publisher Larry Flynt in 1978
and Vernon Jordan, Jr., the civil rights activist, in 1980. Luckily both of
these individuals survived their injuries, however Flynt was left permanently
paralyzed from the waist down. Somehow Franklin did not receive any conviction
in either of these two cases.
Due
to his frequent changes of his accounts regarding some of the crimes he had
been suspected of being involved with, authorities couldn’t charge him and
therefore have no idea of the real numbers of murders he was involved with.
Rosewood
once again dwells into this individual’s childhood, which once again had
involved being physically abuse; as well his changing his name from James
Clayton Vaughn to honor his two favorite historical individuals, Joseph Paul
Goebbels and Benjamin Franklin.
For
having given his readers another in-depth discussion of an infamous serial
killer I’m giving this book 5 STARS.
Please
note I had won a mobi.file copy of this book from a giveaway the author had on
LibraryThing and above as been my honest opinion.
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