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but also highly repulsive, disgusting, and hard to rate, This book puts you directly into the thought process of a “man” who was a pedophile, child rapist, and murderer.
That is of somewhat questionable value,

So whyBecause I feel like the author/interviewer did a good job with what she did.
Also, disgusting as it is, the book is definitely fascinating at times,

It is incredibly bizarre to hear Westley Allan Dodd repeatedly go on these tirades blaming law enforcement for not punishing him or stopping him from doing his crimes.
I mean, he gets downright indignant

about it, And while he is correct sort of, where is any taking responsibility for maybe deciding not to abuse kids in the first place It just shows you the odd sort of detachment that he had mentally in the way he talks about these crimes.
Like these kids arent even real people,

One of the most fascinating parts of this book is less about Dodd and more about the creepy sorts of women that serial killers attract while in jail.
Toward the end of the book, we get some detailed interviews and correspondence with a woman who was convinced that she was in love with him.
She was a stalker type, definitely not right in the head, and Dodds comments about her are both humorous and spot on.
It is sad and pathetic that a child molester can attract a woman determined to “love” and fix him.
Just weird, man!

The kindle version has a lot of formatting errors, It would be nice if these were cleaned up some time, This book was very creepy, This monster of a man should have died the day he was sentenced, I felt so sorry for those innocent kids who had to deal with this monster, The information in this book parents please pay attention to who is around your kids and who they are taking too.
Four from me but I liked the information!!! Had to take a break from reading this because it was so sickening.
Picked it back up a few years later and just wasn't interested in hearing about a woman that fell in love with this guy.
This popped up as a recommendation in my true crime section of kindle and I SHOULD NOT have read it.
It's so disturbing on so many levels and the killer/ child predator interviewed rambles on and on about his life and his crime, which started at the age ofa true narcissistic psychopath.
I pretty much wanted to throw up reading this, but at least he felt some remorse before his execution.
Horrific. Pretty sure my kids are never going to the park alone, Ever. Ugh. At times a hardtofind book thats price fluctuates toand more at times, This is the softcover book titled, "When the Monster Comes Out of the Closet: Wesley Allen Dodd in His Own Words" by Lori Steinhorst and John Rose.
This is not mass market paperback type stuff, as it's filled with Dodd talking about his career as a pedophile, how rarely he got caught at it for as much as he was doing.
It's just difficult to stomach at times, yet insightful for people especially any with small children, A rare view of a twisted person who caused a lot of damage in his wake until he was finally caught.
How do you rate the autobiographical account of a serial killer who goes into detail about his crimes I've already struggled with this before.
On the one hand there is horror and revulsion, on the other this gives us the best way of understanding not just the what and how, but most significantly the why.
I think for that reason alone it deserves a four star rating,
It's also good to note that Dodd himself wrote this account, Steinhorst and Rose merely edited.
I'll say that I'mdone with this book, . . but I have to take a break,
This book is a record of the confessed crimes committed by the subject, in detail, He committed the same crimes over and over and over, . . and thus the book seems a little redundant, but it also is depressing me, I didn't expect anything different, but due to the nature of crimes and their detail, a reader of this book may want to take it in small doses.
It's disturbing, gross and makes you truly question humanity, . . but it helps you understand what lurks out there so you can protect your family, Lori Steinhorst, through the very words of a serial killer himself, manages to do what no one else has been able to do to date.
She uncloaks the monster in the closet by revealing his inner thoughts and actions, and we see what we have always feared: The monster is no monster at all, but rather a human being, who looks like any other.
Yet, he is torn and twisted by irresistible, compelling, and uncontrollable desire to molest and kill children.


Through his desire to prevent others from being like himself and to prevent children from falling victim to those who would prey on them, convicted molester/killer Westley Allan Dodd, tells it all.
But most importantly, he tells you how there are no monsters in our closets the are on our streets, in our children's playgrounds, schools, and come knocking at our front doors!.