anyone live in any area populated by serial killers?

anyone live in any area populated by serial killers? Dec 17, 2019 5:47:27 GMT

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Post by gameboy on Dec 17, 2019 5:47:27 GMT

Dec 16, 2019 20:18:22 GMT Stammerhead said:

Dec 16, 2019 19:43:52 GMT gameboy said:

Dude, I think that Jack the Ripper can easily be qualified as the first serial killer. I'm more interested in the idea that the serial killer has become almost a meme in our culture.

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.

As the examples from your link show serial killers are not a modern phenomenon based on our modern decadence and moral depravity. There have always been Dahmers and Bundys. It's an intrinsic defect of human nature. It was probably more prevalent in ancient times because there was no modern forensics to investigate these beasts.

Dhu Shanatir Himyarite Kingdom 5th century AD 100+ Lured young royal boys into his home and sodomized them before throwing them out of a window. Stabbed by his last intended victim.[5]

Gilles de Rais Pavillon royal de la France.svg France 1432 to 1440 140+-600 French nobleman accused of torturing, raping and murdering over 140 children, up to 600.[7] Rais and several accomplices in the murders were hanged on 26 October 1440.[8]

Peter Stumpp Holy Roman Empire c. 1564 to 1589 16 "The Werewolf of Bedburg". Confessed under torture to murdering and cannibalizing 14 children, including his son, and two pregnant women. Broken at the wheel, beheaded and burned.[9]

Gilles Garnier Pavillon royal de la France.svg France 1572 4 Hermit known as "The Werewolf of Dole". Confessed to strangling 4 children and eating their flesh.[11] Garnier was caught attacking a young boy and burned at the stake in 1573.[12]