Here is a link to a wikipedia page
list by country
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_by_country
Most serial killers are white and the US is has the most of them.
It is difficult to provide an exact number, as definitions and classifications of serial killers can vary. However, estimates suggest that there have been hundreds of serial killers in the US since 1900.
The vast majority of serial killers are white males between the ages of 20 and 40 years old.
There has recently been a suspected serial killer that has killed a young woman in Georgia and another in Florida. But it wasn't Norcross. The last info that I have found they were still tying the two together based on similar MO's. Many times with serial killers the public may know very little until a suspect has been caught. The FBI estimates that at any given time there could be 50 to 100 serial killers 'working' in the US. Since the US has the whopping majority of serial killers, %86 give or take, that gives us an idea about other country's killers.
We only have 86 female killers from the US. Is a rare thing when a female serial killer comes up. Female serial killers tend to murder men for material gain. The an analysis of the 86 female serial killers from the U.S., tells us that the victims tended to be spouses, children or the elderly. The prefered method for killing is poison but this is not the only method. Shootings (used by 20%), suffocation (16%), stabbing (11%), and drowning (5%) were used by female serial killers. Aileen Wuornos is a totally different female serial killer. She killed strangers instead of friends or family away from home.
With so many serial killers not identified, there can not be statistics showing the population of the world's serial killer. 76% of the world's serial killers are in America is a statistic based ongoing studies. The United States only has about seven percent of the world's population, but has been home to over 76% of its serial killers.
It is impossible to get a number of active serial killers from any time; due, in part, to the belief that a murder is simply a murder, not a serial killing. Also, it is impossible to know how many serial killers have never been caught, also due to the aforementioned reason.
Well, that's a good question. Why does anyone kill? There are plenty of theories, but barely any of them cover the motives of convicted serial killers. There are many theories as to why serial killers do what they do (avatism, lust, insanity, etc) but nothing can give us a complete and straight answer.
Because of the way a lot of serial killers work it is almost impossible to tell which cities have killers or not. These types of killers move around so much. Different cities, along major freeways and highways, dumping bodies far from where they were taken from. And prostitutes are a popular target for serial killers. Prostitutes are notorious for moving around also. They go from city to city sometimes. Some will be missing for months before anyone gets worried, and files a missing person's report with police. It must be emphasized that serial killers can pop up anywhere. In small towns, (although its harder to hide anything in a small community), big cities, ect. Although the US has a large percentage of these killers, they are not confined to any one country or area. Additional fact:The FBI estimates that there could be up to 100 serial killers at work in the US at any given time.
America's Serial Killers Portraits in Evil - 2009 The Monster Within and Among Us The Case of Jack the Ripper 1-1 was released on: USA: 2009
A serial killer is a person who kills a number of people with a cooling off period between each murder(usually one murder at one given time, but two murders at one time occasionally happens) and these murders may go on for a period of months or years until the killer is caught. Throughout the last three decades the US serial killer rate has risen 940% and it is estimated that by the next millennium it will claim an average of 11 lives a day. Serial Murder is an epidemic, there are at least 35 serial killers active in the USA today who claim one third of the annual murder rate. The USA has 6% of the world's population yet it has three quarters of all serial killers. Not only are serial killers appearing in more numbers in the US but all over the world countries are terrorised by serial killers which are appearing in more numbers year and year after.
Serial killers come from different backgrounds, attain different levels of education, and hold various types of jobs. However, many serial killers do have at least one thing in common: the desire to communicate regarding their crimes. Through a careful examination of messages from such killers as the D.C. Snipers, the BTK Killer, the Zodiac Killer, Jack the Ripper, the Black Dahlia Avenger and others, Gibson reveals in his book "Clues for serial killers" aspects of their communications that give us a window into the psyches of these criminals.