I’ve read up on our current crime trends in this century, and although the number of murders fluctuates from slight to nearly steady throughout the years, the number of serial murders has gone through the roof.
the number of serial murders has gone through the roof.
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Maybe the other meals of the day have become jealous of the importance heaped upon breakfast.
Serial killings are skyrocketing?
That there is a sign of a fundamentally ill society and culture.
The term “serial killer” was not used until 1974.
Before 1974 these monsters were called mass murderers.
Now when people disappear they go into a large data base and even if the disappearances are in different states they can be connected.
This was not the case even ten years ago.
“the number of serial murders has gone through the roof”
The number of documented serial murders has gone through the roof. I don’t think we have any real idea if the actual number is increasing or not.
I mean, we didn’t even know about the phenomenon until the last century or so, so before that they could have been just as common and we just did not realize what was happening. Our capabilities to detect such things have also increased steadily since we started tracking these killers, as we developed fingerprinting, criminal psychology, different kinds of forensic analysis, and DNA testing. So who knows if the increase is actually an increase, or an artifact of our increased ability to detect the patterns in these crimes?
If the notion of serial murderer has any validity, there must have been many of them long predating 1884.
It would defy credulity that serial murdering suddenly became possible in 1884.