Took a quick look and thought I would save you all some time on digging through Joseph Zaccardi the poet.
He is not the same person as Joseph Zaccardi the children's book author, that was discovered dead along with his family.
The poet is much older, compare the pictures, plus he was a Vietnam vet, the other guy was 43 years old. The Vietnam war was over by the time he was born....
@Oh_Well_ian@carmencita@Not_Spartacus (thanks for posting the poem though) OP gave bad info in the title. Now an author with same name is falsely linked to both murder suicide and falsely accused of writing about cannibalism of a stillborn as related to said murder/suicide that he had nothing to do with. Keep PG standards high by supporting the deletion of @EnterTheUnknown's post.
He is not the same person as Joseph Zaccardi the children's book author, that was discovered dead along with his family.
Thank you. You've demonstrated how important it is to not assume that what an OP says in an title is based on the links given (I assumed he was the author based on title). And that non related Children's book author with same name as the deceased would have had PG FALSE accusations (he wrote a poem about cannibalism of a stillborn!) spreading across the net if this board doesn't get it right. Based on that, this post should be removed imho, ideally by OP @EnterTheUnKnown or by a mod @Vindicator PG gets enough ridicule when it doesn't deserve it, why provide posts that would deserve ridicule by demonstrating that our standards of proof are a fail, if we do nothing about it.
Why are you so concerned (and you're using an alt to hide behind) that I don't want a person who has nothing at all with PG to be accused of writing about eating dead babies and being confused with a murderer? And to not have ding dongs spreading rumors like that across social media?
Thanks for the ping, K9. I will remove it after the flair has run out. The initial claim has been debunked. But I'm curious to see if anyone comes up with sketchy content from the guy's children's books. I didn't see that addressed.
I did look at the books (samples of front covers/backcovers). Nothing from what I saw to warrant the topic belonging on PG, (granted I haven't read the books. There were a couple sentences (young kids books). He did the illustrations. Given that we know about the murder suicide, I did get the sense about him as an author that (while speculative) may play into whatever possible motives that led to what happened: 1. His few books didn't seem to that successful or in demand. 2) Some things about the books seemed awkward (made me think he might be a bit 'off' in some way) example: a story about a mixed up elephant, his body parts are in the wrong place. How to fix it? "shake him?". Something like that. 3). The number of books compared to the number of years he's been doing it seemed slim (but maybe they're fully illustrated so that may take longer), and 5) There were little to no book reviews. On was rated one star. One had no stars, and a few had two reviews had high ratings. (could have been someone they knew put those in there).
The pictures of him I've seen he seems immature. Maybe he's on the spectrum as they say. If they were under financial stress or if the marriage was having issues and he was not quite right, then murder suicide may be a result of a mind (his) that believes everything is going to be taken from him anyway.
I just edited that one (I had the others and overlooked this one). It's true that he wrote at least one children's book. The case was not closed (so that was not accurate), and the technically as you stated, the post doesn't adhere to the rules. That being said, I took back my asking you to remove the post. I would only ask that you clarify that there are 2 Joseph Zaccardi, one the murderer who wrote the children's book and another one who is a poet that shows up in searches of the name. People here spent a lot of time looking into this on your behalf, and just a while ago another person came across the wrong person (the poet) and wrote about him. Editing that info to your original post doesn't seem like a lot to ask.
Thanks, it gets confusing but the dead guy in the original post is a children's book author and the poet is just some guy with unfortunately the same name as him.
I agree that people need to look into these things better. Accusing innocent people doesn't make us look good.
People search and come up with the poets name. Please take 2 minutes of your time to make a note that there are two writers by the same name: one a childrens' book author and the other a poet. You've known this for 5 hours. I spent way to much time dealing with your post that you knew didn't meet the rules. No one could have foreseen that there were two writers, sorry I misspoke on that part of your title, I read @TheMystic's comment over a bit too quickly.
Your post should clearly differentiate the CHILDRENS AUTHOR from the poet with the same name, who's work is subject of most of this thread. He had nothing to do with the murder/suicide case.
Again with the telling me what the fuck to do. Who the fuck are you?
Some shady shit went down with a childrens book author, entire family killed. I put that clearly in the title, dropped multiple links to articles. Then I posted it to a "research sub" so people could do RESEARCH.
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TheMystic ago
Took a quick look and thought I would save you all some time on digging through Joseph Zaccardi the poet.
He is not the same person as Joseph Zaccardi the children's book author, that was discovered dead along with his family.
The poet is much older, compare the pictures, plus he was a Vietnam vet, the other guy was 43 years old. The Vietnam war was over by the time he was born....
kestrel9 ago
@Oh_Well_ian @carmencita @Not_Spartacus (thanks for posting the poem though) OP gave bad info in the title. Now an author with same name is falsely linked to both murder suicide and falsely accused of writing about cannibalism of a stillborn as related to said murder/suicide that he had nothing to do with. Keep PG standards high by supporting the deletion of @EnterTheUnknown's post.
kestrel9 ago
Thank you. You've demonstrated how important it is to not assume that what an OP says in an title is based on the links given (I assumed he was the author based on title). And that non related Children's book author with same name as the deceased would have had PG FALSE accusations (he wrote a poem about cannibalism of a stillborn!) spreading across the net if this board doesn't get it right. Based on that, this post should be removed imho, ideally by OP @EnterTheUnKnown or by a mod @Vindicator PG gets enough ridicule when it doesn't deserve it, why provide posts that would deserve ridicule by demonstrating that our standards of proof are a fail, if we do nothing about it.
WhiteRabbit44 ago
Why are you so fucking concerned if some sleeping sheeple ridicules PG?
kestrel9 ago
You do the math Mr. Bunny https://pics.mcclatchyinteractive.com/news/nation-world/national/t26uqn/picture121294263/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/Gunman%20Pizza%20Shop
Why are you so concerned (and you're using an alt to hide behind) that I don't want a person who has nothing at all with PG to be accused of writing about eating dead babies and being confused with a murderer? And to not have ding dongs spreading rumors like that across social media?
Vindicator ago
Thanks for the ping, K9. I will remove it after the flair has run out. The initial claim has been debunked. But I'm curious to see if anyone comes up with sketchy content from the guy's children's books. I didn't see that addressed.
kestrel9 ago
I did look at the books (samples of front covers/backcovers). Nothing from what I saw to warrant the topic belonging on PG, (granted I haven't read the books. There were a couple sentences (young kids books). He did the illustrations. Given that we know about the murder suicide, I did get the sense about him as an author that (while speculative) may play into whatever possible motives that led to what happened: 1. His few books didn't seem to that successful or in demand. 2) Some things about the books seemed awkward (made me think he might be a bit 'off' in some way) example: a story about a mixed up elephant, his body parts are in the wrong place. How to fix it? "shake him?". Something like that. 3). The number of books compared to the number of years he's been doing it seemed slim (but maybe they're fully illustrated so that may take longer), and 5) There were little to no book reviews. On was rated one star. One had no stars, and a few had two reviews had high ratings. (could have been someone they knew put those in there).
The pictures of him I've seen he seems immature. Maybe he's on the spectrum as they say. If they were under financial stress or if the marriage was having issues and he was not quite right, then murder suicide may be a result of a mind (his) that believes everything is going to be taken from him anyway.
EnterTheUnKnown ago
I aint removing shit
kestrel9 ago
I just edited that one (I had the others and overlooked this one). It's true that he wrote at least one children's book. The case was not closed (so that was not accurate), and the technically as you stated, the post doesn't adhere to the rules. That being said, I took back my asking you to remove the post. I would only ask that you clarify that there are 2 Joseph Zaccardi, one the murderer who wrote the children's book and another one who is a poet that shows up in searches of the name. People here spent a lot of time looking into this on your behalf, and just a while ago another person came across the wrong person (the poet) and wrote about him. Editing that info to your original post doesn't seem like a lot to ask.
TheMystic ago
Thanks, it gets confusing but the dead guy in the original post is a children's book author and the poet is just some guy with unfortunately the same name as him.
I agree that people need to look into these things better. Accusing innocent people doesn't make us look good.
kestrel9 ago
Thank you for taking time to see what we all overlooked.
EnterTheUnKnown ago
Thanks for pointing out the difference. Looks like some were getting confused.
kestrel9 ago
People search and come up with the poets name. Please take 2 minutes of your time to make a note that there are two writers by the same name: one a childrens' book author and the other a poet. You've known this for 5 hours. I spent way to much time dealing with your post that you knew didn't meet the rules. No one could have foreseen that there were two writers, sorry I misspoke on that part of your title, I read @TheMystic's comment over a bit too quickly.
kestrel9 ago
You introduced the confusion from the start, in your title.
EnterTheUnKnown ago
My title clearly says CHILDRENS AUTHOR
kestrel9 ago
Your post should clearly differentiate the CHILDRENS AUTHOR from the poet with the same name, who's work is subject of most of this thread. He had nothing to do with the murder/suicide case.
EnterTheUnKnown ago
Seriously dude, you need to stop telling me what the fuck to do.
kestrel9 ago
Then you need to stop posting non research on a research sub and wasting people's time.
EnterTheUnKnown ago
Again with the telling me what the fuck to do. Who the fuck are you?
Some shady shit went down with a childrens book author, entire family killed. I put that clearly in the title, dropped multiple links to articles. Then I posted it to a "research sub" so people could do RESEARCH.
kestrel9 ago
whatever troll
EnterTheUnKnown ago
Sure faggot