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Norman Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, his novel about condemned killer Gary Gilmore, when he struck up a correspondence with Jack Henry Abbott, Federal Prisoner 87098-132. Over time, Abbott convinced the famous author that he was a talented writer who deserved another chance at freedom. With letters of support from Mailer and other literary elites of the day, Abbott was released on parole in 1981.

She drank furniture polish. She was obsessed with the military. Then she shot up a shopping mall. Sylvia Seegrist is unique among female serial killers in that she is the only one to shoot random strangers in a public place. While other killers of her gender seemed to have a certain motivation in mind, Seegrist was a paranoid schizophrenic that adopted more of a "masculine" attitude toward killing. She was a woman on a mission as she entered Springfield Mall in Pennsylvania and attempted to kill as many people as possible.