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73 Questions Answered By Jo (Vogue - True Crime Style: 2024) | Get To Know Caledonian Kitty
Q10) What song can you listen to on repeat?
Anything by Bryan Ferry / Roxy Music and this is a fact because I hear their music every day. I listen to them in the shower or bubblebath, it's part of my routine lol.
Q11) When do you feel the most inspired?
Knowing me, probably about 3 am when I'm supposed to be asleep!
Q12) What makes you smile the most?
Lots of things in my life, I have a lot to be grateful for. I count my blessings.
Q13) What's one thing people don't know about you?
I make my own homemade soup! It's funny because my grandmother made her own signature soup then my Dad made his in which he added chunks of potatoes. I have my own spin on both and I serve it with warm, crusty buttered bread....it's divine! I'm such a fabulous chef and anyone who's ever tried my soup loves it.
Q14) Heels, flats or sneakers?
Always heels!!!!
Q15) Vintage or new?
Vintage!!
Q16) What are three things you can't live without?
Makeup, perfume and Dino's pickles!
Q17) Window or aisle seat?
Window, so I can put my headphones on and pretend I am in a music video lol.
Q18) What's your current TV character obsession?
It will always be Columbo!
Q19) Leather or lace?
Always lace!
Q20) What's the most adventurous thing you've ever done?
Probably loads of stuff but one thing comes to mind.....being dragged onto the Pepsi Max rollercoaster in Blackpool, England! The fact that I was even on that thing still shocks me (I had my eyes closed the whole time and hung on for dear life).
Q21) How would you define yourself in 3 words?
Undefinable, Underestimated and Eccentric!
Q22) What's your current favourite piece of clothing that you own?
Either my Versace or Armani skinny tees.
Q23) What's inspiring you in life right now?
I've always been heavily into aromatherapy oils and crystals. I've been keeping a lot of Rose Quartz around me lately and it's making me feel more relaxed with positive energy.
Q24) What's the best piece of advice you've received?
To never give up and consistency is key!
Q25) What's your pet peeve?
People who judge me for my writing. I blocked a guy yesterday on X because he said ''You're actually a nice person for someone who's obsessed with Serial Killers''. Anyone who is a regular reader or knows me personally, knows I and not a fan of serial killers and that ridiculous statement just dismisses me as just some sort of crazy fan girl instead of a person who is working so hard on their dream to be a published writer.
Q26) Diamonds or pearls?
As Marilyn once sang....''Diamonds are a girl's best friend''.
Q27) What's something you notice about someone when you first meet them?
Teeth, nails or style.
Q28) What's your biggest regret?
I think regrets are good because they teach you a lesson but I would love to have seen George Michael live in concert.
Q29) What's heavily played on your playlist right now?
Sabrina Carpenter's 'Espresso'. I have such a girly crush on her right now.
Q30) What's your favourite board game?
Atmosphere or Connect 4
Q31) What's your guilty pleasure?
Watching 90's WWE
Q32) What book did you most recently finish?
I think it was Britney Spears's autobiography. I usually don't have time to focus on just one book as I tend to use various ones for research.
Q33) How do you start your day?
Wake up, check my phone, answer messages, make coffee and get my glam on.
Q34) What's your favourite holiday?
Christmas.
Q35) If you could raid one woman't closet, who would it be?
Sabrina Carpenter.
Q36) If you could switch lives with one person for a day, who would it be?
Mariah Carey
Q37) What's one thing you've always wanted to try but been too scared to?
Well I keep going back and forth about getting my belly-button pierced (I've seen and heard such horror stories)
Q38) What's one thing you wish you knew at 19?
How actually strong I was and that I had everything I needed (even a that age) to succeed.
Q39) Besides your phone or wallet, what are a couple of must-have handbag items?
For me.....nail glue and eyelash glue lol!
Q40) If you were not a writer what would you be doing?
Makeup artistry.
Q41) What's something you can't do?
Save money and anything to do with mathematics.
Q42) Where was the best vacation you've ever taken?
Sounds soppy but I just love visiting back home in Scotland.
Q43) What's one city you've always dreamed of going to?
Ever since I was a child it has been Rome.
Q44) What's something you always travel with?
Makeup bag and perfume.
Q45) Favourite food?
Right now, vegetarian sushi or Focaccia bread.
Q46) Favourite dessert?
Chocolate gateaux
Q47) Favourite snack?
Cheese and marmite oatcakes or Dino's pickles.
Q48) What's a movie that made you cry?
The Notebook
Q49) What's your favourite movie of the last five years?
Late Night With The Devil
Q50) What's the one talent you wish you had?
To be able to sing
Q51) What's your favourite exercise?
I love my cross-trainer, it works every part of the body and keeps me toned.
Q52) Who's your favourite band?
I have many but I have a special love for Depeche Mode.
Q53) What's your favourite fast food order?
Maccie D's fries (if I'm on my period I'll ask for two portions), McPlant burger and either a donut or McFlurry. I tend to have my own sugar-free drinks and ketchup at home.
Q54) What's something you don't want to be doing in 10 years?
Struggling financially
Q55) What's the cutest thing on earth?
A baby's laughter
Q56) What's the best thing that has happened this year?
Ask me again in December lol.
Q57) What's your favourite cocktail?
Orgasm or Sex on The Beach
Q58) Which movie makes you laugh the hardest?
Office Space or Step Brothers.
Q59) What do you usually eat for dinner?
Whatever I fancy on any given day. I like a little bit of everything - vegetarian of course!
Q60) What do you usually eat for lunch?
A cheese and Quorn ham sandwich with Dino's pickles!
Q61) What do you usually eat for breakfast?
Special K oats and honey cereal with a huge mug of coffee.
Q62) What's your favourite thing in the world?
Animals
Q63) What's your favourite colour?
Pink or black
Q64) What colour do you wear the most?
Pink, black, burgundy or red
Q65) What are three words to describe living in England?
Expensive, busy and beautiful (scenery)
Q66) Do you like surprises?
Nice ones, yes!
Q67) What's one thing you had to learn the hard way?
That some people may not have your best intentions at heart
Q68) What's something you're tired of?
Crazy people going around chucking oil and paint over famous paintings and landmarks
Q69) What cheers you up when your sad?
Happy memories, a bubblebath or retail therapy.
Q70) What's a trend you would like to see vanish forever?
Turkey teeth, BBLs and duck lips!
Q71) What did you want to do with your life at age 12?
I wanted to be an actress in Eastenders.
Q72) How long have you been writing about true crime?
Since 2019
Q73) What true crime documentary would you recommend to someone?
Check out a documentary called 'Talhotblond'. That will blow your socks off!!!
Well, there you have it, 73 questions answered and my left hand is starting to fall off! I hope you found this post an interesting read and feel like you know me that little bit more. Sometimes it's good to get a bigger picture of the person behind the writing and I appreciate you making it this far.
I hope you will join me in my next post on this blog where I will be starting my new series. As to what that's going to be? I'm not quite sure but rest assured I will put my all into it as always.
See you next time x...
10 Facts You May Not Know About Serial Killer....Dennis Rader (BTK)
(A recent mugshot of Dennis Rader. Picture credit: reddit)
In this final instalment in my '10 Facts You May Not Know About Serial Killers' series, the focus is on the infamous Dennis Rader otherwise known as BTK. If you haven't had a chance over the past weeks to check out the individuals that I have covered in this series, please see the posts below:
Also, check out the post I had written about BTK some time ago here.
So, let's get into this final instalment....
1) BTK stands for Bind, Torture, Kill. Dennis Rader gave himself this nickname.
2) Like a lot of serial killers before and since BTK, Dennis would have a horrific hobby of torturing animals as a child. He fixated on cats as his main target.
3) Dennis was accidentally dropped on his head as a child and it is believed that this event may have caused long lasting brain damage which would later affect his ability to feel remorse as well as his bizarre and sickening activities.
4) Dennis saw the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy as an inspiration.
5) Dennis would stalk his victims for weeks, sometimes months and would view them as projects. Some victims were later murdered and some luckily never met an unfortunate end as they'd been able to somehow avoid him by chance of not being home on a particular day.
6) He has never shown any remorse for his crimes and when questioned about the horrendous things that he has done, he is so cavalier about it.
7) During the attack and murder of one of his victims he locked her children in the bathroom.
8) Dennis Rader was very open about his crimes and confessed in chilling details about what took place.
9) Dennis's daughter Kerri often speaks publicly not only about her relationship with her father (which she also documented in the book: A Serial Killer's Daughter) but is supportive to victims of crime.
10) Dennis Rader is still alive and well in prison. He was given 10 life sentences but was not placed on Death Row due to it not being reinstated at the time.
My heart goes out to the victims and survivors of Dennis Rader. The story of BTK will forever be a horrifying and disturbing case which none of us will ever come to understand.
Further Reading & Sources:
Thank you so much for joining me these past 7 weeks in this series, I hope that you found each of these posts informative. I will be taking a break for this coming week but I will be back with a new series in July of which I hope you'll continue to join me.
Stay safe.....until next time x
10 Facts You May Not Know About Serial Killer....Dennis Nilsen | #TrueCrime With @CaledonianKitty
When some people talk about Dennis Nilsen, they often refer to him as the UK's version of Jeffrey Dahmer. There are similarities between the two but unlike Jeffrey, Dennis is often not spoken about as much or as over-glamourized. I've mentioned the crimes of Dennis Nilsen briefly on this blog in the past but I will be doing a more in-depth post on him soon. In the meantime, here is the sixth instalment in my '10 Facts You May Not Know About Serial Killer...' series and the focus is on UK serial killer, Dennis Andrew Nilsen.
1) Dennis was born on the 23rd of November 1945 in Fraserburgh, Scotland.
2) He was said to have been responsible for the gruesome murders of 15 men and boys, possibly more. As with a lot of serial killers, nobody can ever be 100% sure of the exact number of victims.
3) When it came to nicknames often given to serial killers by the media, Dennis was often referred to as 'The Muswell Hill Murderer' but is mostly just known by his real name, Dennis Nilsen.
4) Due to the fact that Nilsen committed his crimes in the UK and was a UK native, his sentence was not death but life imprisonment no matter how disturbing his crimes had been. The death penalty was suspended by the UK in 1964 and officially made illegal in 1998.
5) Nilsen died at the age of 72 due to complications following surgery on his abdominal area.
6) Nilsen's crimes were discovered when a local plumber was sent out to the property he was living in. The drains had been blocked due to the gruesome practice of Dennis flushing human remains down the toilet.
7) He had spent some time in the Army and trained as a chef.
8) He once worked in a Jobcentre as an employment advisor helping skilled labourers with employment opportunities.
9) Brian Masters wrote a very detailed book about his correspondence with Dennis Nilsen whilst he was in prison. You can find the book here. A TV series based on the book was also later released to critical acclaim with the brilliant David Tennant in the role as Nilsen.
10) Dennis had a dog that he doted on. After his arrest the police thought it would be best for the dog to be 'put to sleep' because they believed that nobody would want to adopt a dog that had previously been owned by a serial killer.
As mentioned before, I will be covering the disturbing case of Dennis Nilsen in more detail so stay tuned for that. I hope that you found this post to be an interesting read even though parts were disturbing.
RIP to the known victims of Dennis Nilsen. I know quite a bit about the case and I'm surprised myself that I haven't covered it yet. I know that there was also survivors of Nilsen, one unfortunately could never get over the horrific trauma that Dennis had put him through and the man sadly took his own life. I will talk all about that and more in my future post.
Further Reading & Sources:
- Killing For Company | Book by Brian Masters
- The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers | Book by Michael Newton
I hope you will join me next time for the final instalment in this series.
Stay safe, until next time x
10 Facts You May Not Know About Serial Killer....Aileen Wuornos | #TrueCrime With @CaledonianKitty
In the fifth instalment of this series, I am focusing on the female serial killer (arguably known as America's First Female Serial Killer) the infamous Aileen Wournos. Even those who may not be avid true crime readers or watchers of serial killer documentaries know who Aileen is. Mostly thanks in part to the incredible (if not 'patchy') movie 'Monster' which brought to us the amazing transformation of Charlize Theron into her character, Aileen. You may wonder why I say that Monster is 'patchy', well some of the details in the movie were inaccurate and there was a lot of things that were kept out the story. For example, the courtroom scene where Aileen is found guilty, in the movie the dialogue is tame but in reality, Aileen shouted horrendous abuse at people, screaming ''I hope your wife and kids get ***** up the ***''. The director of Monster kept certain facts out of the movie because it would have taken away the 'sympathy' that Aileen was a tragic figure who had been done wrong and was lashing out. The truth was that Aileen had been through hell but she also took advantage, abused and murdered people for her own gain. There were people who tried to help Aileen and she either robbed or murdered them and I'm not just talking about the men that she met.
And don't get me started on Tyria Moore who used Aileen, knew fine well what she was doing but was happy to just sit back and take the money. Everyone has a different opinion on Aileen Wuornos, what's yours? I always find it interesting to hear other people's thoughts on such individuals. So, without further ado, let's get into this post....
(Don't forget to check out my previous posts in this series which focused on infamous serial killers: Jeffrey Dahmer, Richard Ramirez, John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy)
Also take a look at a previous post in which I included Aileen's story: 5 of the World's Most Deadliest Female Killers
1) Aileen Wuornos who was born on the 29th of February 1956 in Rochester, Michigan (USA) was reportedly abandoned as a baby by her mother. Aileen never met her biological father who went on to take his own life in prison.
2) Aileen was executed by lethal injection on the 9th of October 2002. She was 46 years old.
3) Aileen became pregnant in her early teen years but the baby was given up for adoption, she never met her son.
4) Aileen was once married to an elderly wealthy man in his 70s. Depending on who you believe, the story goes that Aileen abused this man despite the security and financial stability he gave her. According to Aileen, it was the elderly man who abused her. Regular stories often pop up of friends and acquaintances who had previously tried to help Aileen in some way only for her to take advantage of them. Some believe that Aileen's attitude towards people was her way of surviving due to her tough childhood. She was always looking for who she could use next and how to get more more money.
5) A documentary and interview that I highly recommend to give you a real glimpse into the real Aileen Wuornos, is the fascinating (and chilling) Aileen: Life and death of a Serial Killer directed and created by the legendary Nick Broomfield.
6) Monster: My True Story, the book that inspired the movie and was written by Christopher Berry Dee in collaboration with Aileen herself is available on Amazon.
7) Aileen's last words before her execution were: ''I'd just like to say I'm sailing with the rock I'll be back like Independence Day with Jesus, June 6, like the movie, big mother ship and all. I'll be back.'' (quite the odd statement and even more spooky is that I'm writing this post on June the 6th)
8) Aileen's brother Keith (who had also been abandoned as a child by their mother) passed away at the young age of 21 from throat cancer.
9) Tyria Moore was said to have been the love of Aileen's life so much so that many believe that Tyria (who was unemployed and living off of the money that Aileen was making from sex work as well as the robberies during the murders) had known all along what Aileen was doing. I'd written in my previous post about the pair moving from place to place and one of the cars that they used still had the victim's blood inside, Tyria had been in this car and was supposed to have been oblivious?, Tyria, who many believe was just as responsible for the murders (in terms of encouragement, pressure and manipulation) told the cops everything they wanted to know (her version anyway) in exchange for getting herself off the hook. She agreed to set Aileen up through secretly taped phone calls.
10) Many believe that Aileen should have been spared the death penalty due to her past trauma and the fact that she seemed to demonstrate schizophrenic behaviours. One minute she would be remorseful for her crimes and the next she would act cold claiming that she would do it all again if she could. Some people have said that Aileen should have been in a psychiatric hospital but is all this discussion and sympathy there because she's a woman? or is it because of her childhood? Would we say the same if Aileen had been born male? One wonders what the outcome of the trial would have been today.
Well, I hope that you found this post to be of some interest and new knowledge on Aileen Wuornos. I really highly recommend that you check out Nick Broomfield's documentary though, would love to hear your thoughts on that too.
RIP to the innocent victims of Aileen Wuornos.
You can watch the Nick Broomfield documentary here on Amazon Prime.
Further Reading & Sources:
- 5 of The World's Most Deadliest Female Serial Killers | True Crime With Caledonian Kitty
- Aileen Wuornos: Life & Death of A Serial Killer | Documentary by Nick Broomfield
- Monster | Book by Aileen Wuornos & Christopher Berry Dee
- Aileen Wuornos | Article: Yahoo
- Aileen Wuornos | Article: The Independent
I hope you will join me in the next instalment of this series.
Take care x