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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 1, 2022 23:59:06 GMT
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Post by clusium on Oct 2, 2022 4:46:56 GMT
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 2, 2022 8:47:44 GMT
Every country has serial killers, but nobody are close to having as many as the United States.
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Post by clusium on Oct 2, 2022 16:37:04 GMT
Every country has serial killers, but nobody are close to having as many as the United States. 1)Which just goes to show that Capital Punishment is not a deterrent, & 2)There is a theory that soldiers (that have gone off to fight in a war)& have gone on to have children, those children grow up to become serial killers. Vietnam War Produce Generation Of Serial Killers....?
3)Parents (mothers in particular)should develop a good & loving relationship with their children.
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Oct 4, 2022 17:38:34 GMT
Initially, I think that more of them are reported than in other countries and our media is still free. In countries like Russia or China, news is only what the government allows. Secondly, just the number of people here in a country this large is going to have more serial killers than a smaller country. And in many third-world countries, tracking crime is not a priority, and people die of a whole host of other causes. In the US, the FBI has a Behavioral Analysis Unit that focuses on serial killers and why they do what they do. According to them, there are four factors in determining human behavior: genetics, brain chemistry, psychology and environment. Two of those are "nature" and two of those are "nurture". Every serial killer has been formed by the unique combination of those factors in that person's life. Of those who are abused in childhood, statistically one in eight goes on to be an abuser, and some of them go on to be killers. There has been a lot of research done in this area, and it is complex. I think Wikipedia might be a place to start on understanding serial killers, and there may be a page on the Behavioral Analysis Unit, also. "Evil is not a cultural phenomenon. It's a human one." Link to information on the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit: forensicpsych.umwblogs.org/fbi/history-of-the-fbi/behavioral-analysis-unit/
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Oct 5, 2022 16:17:11 GMT
Forgot to mention, that is one long list. Some are well known, but lots I never heard of. It would be interesting to see the statistics of how many of them were active in each year or decade. And see if there is any correlation between percentages of total population.
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Post by clusium on Oct 5, 2022 17:54:38 GMT
Forgot to mention, that is one long list. Some are well known, but lots I never heard of. It would be interesting to see the statistics of how many of them were active in each year or decade. And see if there is any correlation between percentages of total population. Same with the list of serial killers in my sweet ol' country of Canada. Wikipedia didn't even include them all. 
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Oct 5, 2022 17:56:55 GMT
Forgot to mention, that is one long list. Some are well known, but lots I never heard of. It would be interesting to see the statistics of how many of them were active in each year or decade. And see if there is any correlation between percentages of total population. Same with the list of serial killers in my sweet ol' country of Canada. Wikipedia didn't even include them all.  And there is lots of cold wilderness in Canada to hide bodies in... 
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Post by clusium on Oct 5, 2022 17:57:24 GMT
Same with the list of serial killers in my sweet ol' country of Canada. Wikipedia didn't even include them all.  And there is lots of cold wilderness in Canada to hide bodies in...  Yep.....
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Oct 5, 2022 18:04:01 GMT
And there is lots of cold wilderness in Canada to hide bodies in...  Yep..... One wonders... do serial killers pick areas to kill in that have better ways of disposing of bodies? Like Florida, with all of its swamps and alligators... Well, that will make people think twice about moving to Canada from the US.
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Post by enigma72 on Oct 5, 2022 19:33:42 GMT
good question Feologild OakesThere were at least 5 active serial killers in the area while I was in college in that area. I was scared! but.. Maybe all countries have this many, but they aren't discovered?
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Post by clusium on Oct 5, 2022 22:56:35 GMT
One wonders... do serial killers pick areas to kill in that have better ways of disposing of bodies? Like Florida, with all of its swamps and alligators... Well, that will make people think twice about moving to Canada from the US.  Yep. Sure would.... .
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Post by clusium on Oct 5, 2022 22:58:02 GMT
good question Feologild Oakes There were at least 5 active serial killers in the area while I was in college in that area. I was scared! but.. Maybe all countries have this many, but they aren't discovered? That is a definite possibility. I knew somebody who was murdered, myself. Her killer has never been caught. Simone Sandler
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Oct 6, 2022 0:07:14 GMT
good question Feologild Oakes There were at least 5 active serial killers in the area while I was in college in that area. I was scared! but.. Maybe all countries have this many, but they aren't discovered? That is a definite possibility. I knew somebody who was murdered, myself. Her killer has never been caught. Simone Sandler How very sad! How does her family live with the not knowing?
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Oct 6, 2022 0:10:10 GMT
good question Feologild Oakes There were at least 5 active serial killers in the area while I was in college in that area. I was scared! but.. Maybe all countries have this many, but they aren't discovered? Five at the same area at the same time! Yikes! Statistically that is incredibly rare. Perhaps a college is a good hunting ground?
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Post by enigma72 on Oct 6, 2022 1:15:30 GMT
good question Feologild Oakes There were at least 5 active serial killers in the area while I was in college in that area. I was scared! but.. Maybe all countries have this many, but they aren't discovered? Five at the same area at the same time! Yikes! Statistically that is incredibly rare. Perhaps a college is a good hunting ground? They were spread around the san Francisco bay area. Just crazy!
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Oct 6, 2022 1:25:45 GMT
Five at the same area at the same time! Yikes! Statistically that is incredibly rare. Perhaps a college is a good hunting ground? They were spread around the san Francisco bay area. Just crazy! Aha, well, that makes some sense. I knew there were multiples in San Francisco but didn't realize there were 5! I think that places with moderate climates attract homeless people, many of whom should honestly be in a mental hospital, but since Reagan did away with those, they now just keep them a day or two and turn them loose. Helluva way to deal with mentally ill people who have no resources or family. I have no statistics to back that up, just my take on stories I have heard.
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Post by clusium on Oct 6, 2022 2:37:23 GMT
That is a definite possibility. I knew somebody who was murdered, myself. Her killer has never been caught. Simone SandlerHow very sad! How does her family live with the not knowing? I don't know. I never met her parents. My friend did keep in touch with them for a while there, though.
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Post by amyghost on Oct 6, 2022 12:47:04 GMT
good question Feologild Oakes There were at least 5 active serial killers in the area while I was in college in that area. I was scared! but.. Maybe all countries have this many, but they aren't discovered? That is a definite possibility. I knew somebody who was murdered, myself. Her killer has never been caught. Simone Sandler I had a cousin, once removed, who was murdered by her husband. Although the police knew him to be guilty, they could never marshal enough evidence to charge him formally; karma finally caught up with him some years later when he was killed in a motorcycle accident. My sister once dated a guy who was later charged and arrested for the murders of three women. I've read that the odds are quite high that, during your lifetime, you've known or had acquaintance with at least one person who has committed a murder and never been caught. The stats on the number of unsolved murders in the US annually are kind of disturbing. projectcoldcase.org/cold-case-homicide-stats/
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Post by Penn Guinn on Oct 6, 2022 13:27:50 GMT
Sometimes it's a matter of semantics ... not all killers of more than two people are "serial killers" except by FBI definition.
A person who kills five members of his family in a drug fueled incident or the guy who kills as he robs liquor stores is not the "serial killer" of Ted Bundy or Dahmer infamy.
Some of the people on that list are known to have killed only one person and are suspected of killing more.
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