JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- It's a story of capitalism and crime; an all-american entrepeneur is making money off of murder.
Eric Gein, from Jacksonville, sells mementos from notorious killers for cash. His website, called
Serialkillersink.net, provides a service for a public hungry for the macabre. The website sells letters, artwork and other items from serial killers.
"We have customers all over the world. Everything from 20-something college students to professors of criminal law," Gein said.
Gein corresponds with inmates, but he says he never pays them off the items they send.
Still, Gein and his murderbillia website have their critics.
"It makes me kind of sick," says Shelia Delongis, whose daughter Maddie was killed twelve years ago by her teenage neighbor, Josh Phillips.
Letter from Phillips, who is serving a life sentence, are for sale on Gein's site.
"I know it's hard times, but to try to make money off a letter sent to you from a criminal doesn't make sense to me," says Delongis.
