kingwilliam14
Banned
Thinking on this, I think you could get Roy Cohn to be a serial killer. The guy know how to mix and mingle among the powerful and wielded his influence to accomplish his personal ambitions. Also, his probable sexual orientation makes it more dynamic.
What if, during the height of McCarthyism, Cohn starts slipping out for late-night homosexual trysts and ends up offing a few of them. He comes to like or rationalize it, and he starts showing up at known gay nightclubs and starts offing men well throughout the 1950s.
Cohn doesn't piss off the Army and ends up becoming Attorney General when Nixon wins in 1960. He proves to be competent and leads the fight against the Mafia, proving much more successful than OTL RFK. This brings him national recognition. Throughout the 1960s, he has kept killing but is a lot more muted about it, not killing as often. His close relationship with J. Edgar Hoover does give him some leeway to do what he wants, and he does use the power of his office to attack some people for personal reasons.
Nixon's presidency is fairly successful as he proves to be a rather pragmatic leader who can get both sides to agree. Vietnam is avoided, Nixon passes Civil Rights in 1966. Roy Cohn runs for president in 1968 and wins.
His presidency is considered fairly average, until 1972. As an analogue to OTL's Watergate, Roy Cohn sends agents to a former murder victim's home to destroy evidence of his last murder, which occurred in 1965. His agents are caught and suddenly its front-page news that between 1953 and 1965, Roy Cohn has killed 43 men.
Cohn immediately commits suicide when the FBI arrives to arrest him. The nation is shocked and US morale collapses. The counterculture movement that Nixon's presidency had somewhat staved off becomes much more violent and explosive.
What if, during the height of McCarthyism, Cohn starts slipping out for late-night homosexual trysts and ends up offing a few of them. He comes to like or rationalize it, and he starts showing up at known gay nightclubs and starts offing men well throughout the 1950s.
Cohn doesn't piss off the Army and ends up becoming Attorney General when Nixon wins in 1960. He proves to be competent and leads the fight against the Mafia, proving much more successful than OTL RFK. This brings him national recognition. Throughout the 1960s, he has kept killing but is a lot more muted about it, not killing as often. His close relationship with J. Edgar Hoover does give him some leeway to do what he wants, and he does use the power of his office to attack some people for personal reasons.
Nixon's presidency is fairly successful as he proves to be a rather pragmatic leader who can get both sides to agree. Vietnam is avoided, Nixon passes Civil Rights in 1966. Roy Cohn runs for president in 1968 and wins.
His presidency is considered fairly average, until 1972. As an analogue to OTL's Watergate, Roy Cohn sends agents to a former murder victim's home to destroy evidence of his last murder, which occurred in 1965. His agents are caught and suddenly its front-page news that between 1953 and 1965, Roy Cohn has killed 43 men.
Cohn immediately commits suicide when the FBI arrives to arrest him. The nation is shocked and US morale collapses. The counterculture movement that Nixon's presidency had somewhat staved off becomes much more violent and explosive.