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I feel like the rise of mass shootings has something to do with it. Why spend years doing what you could get done in an hour?
The chad Zodiac vs the virgin racist mass shooter
yeah i legitimately wonder if there's a connection between the decrease in serial killers and the rise of spree killers
The real reason, everyone's too busy working 2 jobs to have time to plan out elaborate murder scenarios.
I think they're just more careful these days. It's probably not that hard to kill 100+ homeless people if you take basic precautions, I.e. move city regularly, change m.o. regularly, change of appearance etc. Killing homeless is the biggest thing - they're surplus population not really under police protection. Even more so if they're minorities
I think it's more that it's a lot harder to become a serial killer and not get caught for long periods. Technology has advanced tremendously in the fields of communication, surveillance, and forensics since the heyday of the American serial killer so it's far more likely they'll get caught before perfecting their methods or the drive to kill becoming pathological. It's also way easier to just become a spree or mass shooter. I don't think it's a coincidence that while serial killers have declined in the same period spree/mass/workplace/school shootings have risen.
All that big brother/CSI stuff wouldn’t really affect the classic serial killer MO though. Even if we suppose that a random surveillance camera caught a killing or abduction, who’s to say that anybody would check it, if the victim was not known to be on that spot, or even that the victim was missing? I.e. if they’re not a privileged class victim. And if there’s no social connection between the victim and the killer, there’s no telecommunication trail.
It seems like it’d be relatively easy to prove that a person is a serial killer, but not much easier to identify them if they’re smart.
I mean less that science has become magic and more that opportunities minimizing risk are fewer and far between. Especially consistent ones.
I figure it's either this, or just less serial killers in general because of less lead exposure overall.
I would almost guess that having an entire culture that consumes serial killer histories and trucrime as a large part of it's media diet has, perhaps, taught serial killers how to more easily get away with their crimes?
Or it's just no more leaded gasoline, idk.
Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if there's quite a few just operating under the radar
same reason murder & violent crime generally went down:
leaded gasoline
It will never stop boggling my mind how much damage the inventor of leaded gas (and CFCs!) and his big chemical supporters have done to the planet. I mean, to have 1 invention alone be responsible for both harming the atmosphere AND melting the brains of half of an entire fucking generation is astounding.
yes, but he also killed himself so it's impossible to say whether he was good or bad
But he didn't intentionally, it was an accident. With his own invention, no less. So I think we can argue that he made at least 1 good invention.
Environmental historian J. R. McNeill opined that [CFC/leaded gasoline inventor] Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history"
from midgley's wikipedia page
came here to find or say this. the amount of harm that leaded gas has caused is absolutely absurd.
They never went away. The smart ones just figured out that targeting the underclass doesn't result in an investigation.
Why do I vaguely remember something about people not lockin their fucking doors back then?
