Mildred Muhammad

Most of us find it comforting to describe multiple murderers as monsters who have nothing in common with normal people. Barbara Kopple makes a good case, through extensive interviews with his ex-wife Mildred and her family, that we're missing the real story if we write John Muhammad off as an aberration and close the book. As sketched by his ex-wife, who suffered herself at his hands, he was not some mutant psychotic. He was one of us. (nydailynews.com)