Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.
I read a lot about serial killers.
There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.
All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.
Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.
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