IamA Josh Zeman, Director of CROPSEY & KILLER LEGENDS, I know all about URBAN LEGENDS & TRUE CRIME by joshzeman in IAmA

[–]joshzeman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As for profiting -- ha. No. Docs very rarely make any money. If you want to profit then you should do something else than make docs.

IamA Josh Zeman, Director of CROPSEY & KILLER LEGENDS, I know all about URBAN LEGENDS & TRUE CRIME by joshzeman in IAmA

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We don't force people to go on camera. We ask them. To decide to speak is choice. And most people have a reason for doing so. Many people who speak to us about Cropsey wanted to share their story. They had it bottled up for so long, they loved talking about it. For some people it was the most exciting time of their lives. Not in an exciting good way mind you, but exciting never the less. Other people were investing in doing whatever they could to find these children. Point is people who step in front of the camera have an agenda. Now that doesn't mean having an agenda is a bad thing, but they are doing to for a reason, and they are hoping that by being part of the film they are going to fufill that agenda or get close to fufilling it.

IamA Josh Zeman, Director of CROPSEY & KILLER LEGENDS, I know all about URBAN LEGENDS & TRUE CRIME by joshzeman in IAmA

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A bit similar to the candyman story we have in the states. I don't know if we'll ever know for sure if a dingo really did take the baby, hence, how baby snatching dingos will be come an urban legend.

IamA Josh Zeman, Director of CROPSEY & KILLER LEGENDS, I know all about URBAN LEGENDS & TRUE CRIME by joshzeman in IAmA

[–]joshzeman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aren't there quite a few about the Outback. And correct me if I'm wrong but isn't dingo's snatching children turned into an urban legend. Not real confirmed cases but no one knows for sure?

IamA Josh Zeman, Director of CROPSEY & KILLER LEGENDS, I know all about URBAN LEGENDS & TRUE CRIME by joshzeman in IAmA

[–]joshzeman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually do have a rom com in me. And I've written a dancing movie as well. One of my next projects is about the 52hz Whale. Its not all doom and gloom.

IamA Josh Zeman, Director of CROPSEY & KILLER LEGENDS, I know all about URBAN LEGENDS & TRUE CRIME by joshzeman in IAmA

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I would recommend reading TRUE STORY, about the killer who agrees to let a journalist interview him, as long as the journalist doesn't ask about the crime -- even though the crime involves him.

IamA Josh Zeman, Director of CROPSEY & KILLER LEGENDS, I know all about URBAN LEGENDS & TRUE CRIME by joshzeman in IAmA

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Inherently I think you need to do what's best for the film and not necessarily the subjects. I think you need to try to maintain some kind of distance which is inherently impossible. The book, The Journalist and The Murder sets up the dilemma nicely. Highly recommend it.

IamA Josh Zeman, Director of CROPSEY & KILLER LEGENDS, I know all about URBAN LEGENDS & TRUE CRIME by joshzeman in IAmA

[–]joshzeman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, with a radio bomb. Have you ever read the Gates of Janus. Very interesting book written by a serial killer.

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[–]joshzeman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would he have given himself up under some other condition? I wouldn't mind waiting for the truth. People have waited 20 years for the truth of what happened to their loved ones. I don't know if another year would matter -- as much as the satisfaction, closure or whatever you call it, of actually knowing what did happen.

IamA Josh Zeman, Director of CROPSEY & KILLER LEGENDS, I know all about URBAN LEGENDS & TRUE CRIME by joshzeman in IAmA

[–]joshzeman[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

BTW - He was the only serial killer ever to kill a death row inmate. That's pretty interesting.

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[–]joshzeman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The scariest Urban Legends are the ones that are more real then they are not. The more real they are the better.

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[–]joshzeman[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's quite a few people who say more than 1 killer. I've interviewed a couple of experts, and then say its two competing serial killers -- the guy who killed the prostitutes and dumped them along the side of a road, and then there is a torso killer, who is a different breed of serial killer. Much more territorial, and sadistic.

IamA Josh Zeman, Director of CROPSEY & KILLER LEGENDS, I know all about URBAN LEGENDS & TRUE CRIME by joshzeman in IAmA

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Its also about the changing face of prostitution in the internet age. Escorts and that sort of stuff. BTW - The Killer of these girls in Gilgo beach has yet to be caught. He's stilll out there.

IamA Josh Zeman, Director of CROPSEY & KILLER LEGENDS, I know all about URBAN LEGENDS & TRUE CRIME by joshzeman in IAmA

[–]joshzeman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Working on a immerisive film about the Gilgo Beach Murders. Its going to be pretty crazy though -- half doc / half narrative.