News Why are there fewer serial killers now than there used to be?

[Takes Two To Tango]

Less serial killers and more mass shooters. Psychologist have spent decades understanding serial killers and now its about understanding mass shooters. Theyre completely different types of people. Frequent mass shooting in the USA seems to be a modern phenomenon.

That's true it shifted to that type of killings in the US especially.

 

[Oeshon]

there was a German man killed in Thailand last week. They found his body chopped up in a freezer in 12 pieces. They figured out who did it and had everyone arrested in less than 1 week.

there are so many CCTV cameras and digital foot prints that it is pretty hard to get away with anything anymore.

 

[Oeshon]

If you want to kill people, might be better to do it in less developed countries with less cameras and less organized law enforcement. Even then it might be hard since everyone has phones these days and post where they are all the time. Happened a few years back when a backpacker in southeast asia murdered another backpacker and dumped her body in the jungle in Laos, but he eventually had interpol looking for him.

Thailand has CCTV cameras everywhere bro.

 

[Oeshon]

Who are the most famous non-American serial killers? Jack the Ripper? Who else

There was a HUGE story from the last couple months in Thailand. A women who was borrowing money from people and then killing them with cyanide so that she didn't need to pay them back. She only recently got arrested and discovered this year.

She is being charged with 14 murders but they suspect it is a lot higher than that. Her name is "Aem Cyanide"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65395398

 

[Plutoburn]

My guess as a lay person, information available online that law enforcement can cross reference, allowing for better resources for detectives to crack cases. Also with everyone having an evidence collecting device on them, there are more photos/videos evidence than in the past.

 

[Crawler89]

Theres still a bunch. He'll they just caught one of the LISK guys.

More surveillance, harder to blend in, transition to more mass killers.....it's interesting

 

[Gandzooka]

I'd say it is a combination of work done by healthcare professionals, teachers & social workers. Abnormal behavior in a child is spotted early & diagnosed, kids are taken away from abusive parents etc.

 

[Prefect]

I thought this was a very good article in why they are less serial killers now.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/26/serial-killer-decline/

I think this article is way off because it often takes years to solve murders. If they aren't solved in the first 48 hours, their is a very good chance they will never be solved. I kind of suspect that the reduction in serial killers has in part some to do with the fact that unleaded gasoline is the standard as opposed to leaded, which was poisoning people slowly and often is attributed to a cause of higher violence rates in the past.

This idea that forensics is playing a huge role is kind of off base because about half of murders go unsolved nor has the clearance rate changed much. It is still very much a challenge to solve a murder when the killer doesn't have a relationship with the victim.

 

[zapataxiv]

there was a German man killed in Thailand last week. They found his body chopped up in a freezer in 12 pieces. They figured out who did it and had everyone arrested in less than 1 week.

there are so many CCTV cameras and digital foot prints that it is pretty hard to get away with anything anymore.

tbf 19yo. hunny and lots of money to lose makes that case pretty easy to solve

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

I had to hang up the shovel and rope due to the increased difficulty of obtaining quality chloroform.

Wait.. are we talking about dating or serial killing..?

 

[JinKazama]

who knows if there not more now

and we only find out about them later

 

[RoastBeast]

I think this article is way off because it often takes years to solve murders. If they aren't solved in the first 48 hours, their is a very good chance they will never be solved. I kind of suspect that the reduction in serial killers has in part some to do with the fact that unleaded gasoline is the standard as opposed to leaded, which was poisoning people slowly and often is attributed to a cause of higher violence rates in the past.

This idea that forensics is playing a huge role is kind of off base because about half of murders go unsolved nor has the clearance rate changed much. It is still very much a challenge to solve a murder when the killer doesn't have a relationship with the victim.

Any idea why the clearance rate would go down by 20% in the last 40 years? Seems odd.

 

[dbo]

Nah. They're just getting better. Over 600k go missing a year. If you can't find a body you can't say its murder. Look into it.

 

[FyrFytr998]

 

[Midnighter]

There aren't.

 

[CatchnShoot]

who knows if there not more now

and we only find out about them later

oh no...... Bundy was huge news during his run, as was the Hillside Strangler(s), The Zodiac, Son of Sam, BTK, The Night Stalker, the Green River Killer, the happyface killer...... we knew that there were serials at work, but you don't find out who they actually are until afterward.

Of course that's not true of all of them, but often they announce themselves anonymously.

 

[Drunken Meat Fist]

there's no work ethic anymore, also I think Kate Beckinsale spitting up cinnamon toast crunch. The butterfly effect.

 

[Blayt7hh]

Are there? That’s not a fact I ever heard

 

[Drunken Meat Fist]

Do you really hear about the really good ones though.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

This.

They are the same psychopaths they are just choosing a different method. Same hate. Same rage. Same blood lust.

Nah. Totally different.

Serial Killing was never easy, yet certainly easier back in the day. Mainly due to lack of foresnic science and little to no surveillance anywhere.

Most successful serial killers were methodical, intelligent and extremely patient. Guys like Bundy would travel long distances and killed through multiple states, changing his appearance multiple times and finding creative ways to lure his victims.

You cant tie that in with some guy who was having a bad month and decided to go nutso on his classroom.

To be a serial killer is a whole other tier of evil. To be able to continuously murder, over and over, secretly, usually living a whole other life while doing so.