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In the book, when it comes to Ed Gein, my research assistant Annie Powers looked into the Plainfield, Wisconsin, birth records, and sheвЂ™s the one that found that the last names Gee and Dingledine mightвЂ™ve been combined to make the name Gein.

In order for to make a joke about a specific detail I have to give a lot of background information. ItвЂ™s all about the details, but for those details to make sense you have to know the entire story. ThereвЂ™s no comedy in broad strokes with these guys. The reason we started getting so much into research, at first, was about the jokes. ItвЂ™s in that nature - that pathetic nature - where the comedy lies. Of course thereвЂ™s something terrifying in what they do, but as people, pathetic is as good a word as any to describe it. Once we started really getting into the stories of these characters, reading books, reading unedited transcriptions of these people talking, thatвЂ™s when we started to realize these guys are absolutely pathetic. It was not necessarily a mission for us at first, like, вЂњWeвЂ™re gonna take these people down.вЂќ But I do feel great about tearing down these monsters. Was it always part of Last PodcastвЂ™s mission to flip the narrative on how we think about these mythologized criminals?

HeвЂ™s the example of the one who could have gotten help and could have chosen a life that was not dedicated to destruction, and he just didnвЂ™t, and then tried to flip it for sympathy and a lot of people fell for it. Looking at it now, you see that Dahmer in actuality is not sympathetic. He is considered the most sympathetic of the serial killers. For example, talking about Jeffrey Dahmer through the lens of personal responsibility for your own mental health combined with white privilege - the fact that Dahmer couldвЂ™ve gotten help again and again but refused it.

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What we wanted to do with the book was go back to the biggest names in true crime and give each a full account, give all these stories a new perspective, and add our voice to the true-crime conversation. Parks spoke with Rolling Stone about the research process, finding comedy in murder, and why most killers are really just losers. Now the trio has released The Last Book on the Left, a fully illustrated compendium that revisits in print nine of the most notorious killers covered on the podcast, re-investigating the subjects and going through two rounds of fact-checking to provide definitive accounts of murderers from John Wayne Gacy to the Son of Sam to Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, which at the same time question their mythical status in our collective psyche and nightmares. вЂњWeвЂ™d love to keep the show going another five, 10 years,вЂќ Parks says.

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The series recently passed its 400th episode, and Parks says the creators have a list of ideas long enough to do 400 more. What started as a project by three horror-movie fans in the basement of a Mexican restaurant in New York has become a phenomenon with more than 11 million monthly downloads, its own podcast network, and a distribution deal with Spotify. The trio, through deep research and cutting humor, present larger-than-life criminals in a different light: as mentally ill teens who shouldвЂ™ve been given help, elitist know-it-alls who you wouldвЂ™ve hated to have a college class with, or pathetic losers who refused to find something productive to do with their angst. But amid nearly a decade of raunchy humor, the hosts have developed a mission to eschew the glorification of killers.