The Serial Killer Files
Paul Simpson
- There
- are
- many
- myths
- about
- serial
- killers:
- that
- they
- are
- all
- dysfunctional
- loners;
- all
- white
- males;
- only
- motivated
- by
- sex;
- that
- they
- all
- travel
- and
- operate
- across
- a
- wide
- area;
- cannot
- stop
- killing;
- are
- all
- insane,
- or
- evil
- geniuses;
- and
- that
- they
- all
- want
- to
- get
- caught.Of
- course,
- there
- are
- some
- serial
- killers
- who
- fit
- into
- these
- categories,
- but
- the
- married
- Green
- River
- Killer
- was
- not
- a
- dysfunctional
- loner;
- there
- are
- plenty
- of
- female
- and
- non-Caucasian
- serial
- killers;
- Dr
- Harold
- Shipman
- was
- certainly
- not
- motivated
- by
- sex;
- many
- serial
- killings
- (such
- as
- the
- Ipswich
- prostitute
- murders
- carried
- out
- by
- Steve
- Wright)
- happen
- within
- a
- confined
- area;
- the
- 'BTK
- Killer',
- Dennis
- Rader,
- stopped
- killing
- in
- 1991,
- but
- wasn't
- caught
- until
- fourteen
- years
- later.
- Many
- serial
- killers
- may
- have
- a
- low
- animal
- cunning,
- or
- be
- 'street
- smart',
- but
- few
- of
- them
- are
- Mensa-level
- geniuses.Each
- of
- the
- thirty
- cases
- covered
- here
- is
- unusual
- in
- some
- respect,
- perhaps
- in
- the
- way
- in
- which
- the
- killer
- carried
- out
- their
- crimes,
- the
- choice
- of
- victims,
- the
- way
- in
- which
- they
- were
- apprehended,
- or
- the
- method
- of
- their
- execution.The
- cases
- are
- presented
- alphabetically
- by
- country
- -
- from
- Australia
- via
- Colombia,
- Great
- Britain,
- Indonesia,
- Iran,
- South
- Africa
- and
- elsewhere
- to
- the
- United
- States
- -
- and
- then
- chronologically.
- They
- come
- from
- across
- history
- and
- from
- all
- over
- the
- world.
- The
- author
- has
- gone
- back
- as
- far
- as
- possible
- to
- contemporary
- source
- material
- -
- newspaper
- accounts,
- trial
- evidence,
- interviews
- with
- perpetrators
- or
- survivors
- -
- rather
- than
- rely
- on
- the
- increasingly
- blurred
- truth
- to
- be
- found
- online
- and
- in
- far
- too
- many collections.
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