In the late 1990s Bill Geerhart posed as a 10 year old little boy questioning his life choices. Complete with 10year old style handwriting, he sent some famous convicted killers letters asking for help. Some killers were good, Ted Kazinski actually gave him some sound advice, much better then Charles Manson, who scribbled, or Richard Ramrize, who asked for pictures. Erik Menendez actually gave some sound words of advice, and asked to know more about Billy’s situation before he helped.
Little Billy didn’t stick to just killers, he went after politicians, notably Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Dick Cheney, who sent a signed Desert Storm Card for Billy to Collect.
Good times, good ideas, good fun. I wonder who else people could “scam” into pen-palship like this with?
{Radar Magazine}