Well, since I have received an email asking me to do this, here goes…

My name’s Alex, I’m 31, and as you may have guessed, I’m Welsh. I became interested in true crime, namely serial killers, when I was around the age of 10 after seeing the made for TV movie Victim of Beauty (The American title for this film is Nightmare in Columbia County) which was based on the abduction and murder of Shari Smith in South Carolina in 1985. The Kidnapper called her home and taunted her parents and said he was now after Shari’s sister, Dawn telling her "You can’t be protected all the time, Dawn." A few days later a letter arrived written in Shari’s hand entitled ‘Last Will and Testament’. After they discovered Shari’s body, he again called the family the day of her funeral and told Dawn that he and Shari had ‘Become one sole’ and wished to tell her how her sister died and said "I gave her a choice, shooting her, an overdose, or strangulation. She wanted strangulation, I thought I should tell ya’ll that." Sheriff Jim Metts, sitting close by with a headset on listening in, threw the headset off, rushed over to Dawn who was now in floods of tears, grabbed the phone from her hand and told the caller "You sick son of a bitch! I’m gonna get you." And 28 days after Shari went missing, he did just that. The Questioned Document Dpt had discovered a latent impression of a phone number on the letter written by Shari that was traced back to Larry Gene Bell who had, In the mean time, kidnapped and murdered a 9 year old girl. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. Bell ignored lethal injection and opted for the Chair saying that he was Jesus Christ and because of this, he must die on Oak wood like he did on the cross at Calvary. If this was a ploy to avoid execution by claiming insanity, it did not work, and on Oct 4, 1996, he was dragged to the Electric Chair.

So, that’s a bit about me and how I became interested in true crime. Any questions? Lol