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Dear Mass Murderer: I Need Advice

Fake 10-year-old solicits wisdom from famous, infamous

By Sam Gale Rosen, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 30, 2008 10:51 AM CDT

(Newser) – An unemployed writer posing as a 10-year-old boy seeking advice wrote letters to a number of celebrities, including some of America's most infamous killers. The responses to the queries from the "pop-culture historian," as Radar magazine described Bill Geerhart, range from the weirdly... Read full story »

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