Post by Stammerhead on Dec 16, 2019 20:18:22 GMT
www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/news/knife-crimes-in-london--6662
But there were probably such psychos going back to medieval and ancient times. Or were there?
Is this some new phenomena or do we only know about it now because of media?
The Wikipedia article supports that theory but at the same time claims that Jack The Ripper was not the first serial killer. Here is a list of earlier serial killers.
The Ripper murders mark an important watershed in the treatment of crime by journalists. Jack the Ripper was not the first serial killer, but his case was the first to create a worldwide media frenzy. Tax reforms in the 1850s had enabled the publication of inexpensive newspapers with wider circulation. These mushroomed in the later Victorian era to include mass-circulation newspapers as cheap as a halfpenny, along with popular magazines such as The Illustrated Police News which made the Ripper the beneficiary of previously unparalleled publicity.