Serial killers are the basis for many works of fiction and biographies. The library is full of real life crime stories as well as aisles of fictional works with the era of Jack the Ripper being a particularly rich source.
Dahmer
Google serial killers captured and there are some really good sites. Or try www.serialkillers.com, there is some really good information on this one.
Serial means a series of crimes, usually one at a time, with a 'cooling off' period in between kills. The cooling off time depends on the individual killer. Jack The Ripper killed two women in the space of an hour. Some killers may not kill again for several years.
There is a possible serial killer that has killed one young woman in Florida and one in Georgia. The police were still in the stage of linking the two deaths with criminal MO and signature. Unfortunately, with serial killers, they are caught through repetition and creation of criminal patterns. This means more victims.------ From my knowledge Florida is the state with the most serial killers.
The California police and the Highway patrol were paying attention to that area believing that the Zodiac killer home could be in Lucerne Valley when the Riverside murders were committed. The invenstigation led nowhere and this case is not solved. In my research about serial killers, I had never read one that was from that area or lived in this area.
He ranks as one of the serial killers with the highest kills. There is about Three killers that outrank him. The rest of the long list of serial killers around the world doesn't come close to his ranking.
The one with the biggest gun.
Silence of The Lambs; Insomnia; There's one with Robin Williams about photo's. Can't remember the name of it. But if your looking for real serial killers the only one I know of is the t.v. mini series about Ted Bundy.
Organized And Disorganized
Ted Bundy is one of America's most notorious serial killers.
Black serial killers are very rare. Most black multiple murders are classified as spree killers, or business related killers I.E rival drug dealers. Serial killers have very specific psycopathies. And blacks in the USA represent between 26&30 percent of the population and less then two percent of classified serial killers. Statistically speaking black serial killers are almost non-existent. It is true that 70-80% of people convicted of crimes in the united states are black. But one has to ask the question, is that a condition of poverty and urban life or psycopathy. In other words, is it their skin color, or their circumstance that drive them to commit their crimes. I'm inclined to think the later. Remember the statistic was based on those convicted of crimes.
Based on a study of 113 serial killers in the Radford University Serial Killer Database, the mean IQ for serial killers is 101 and the median is 100. There is a tremendous range of IQs with a low of 57 and a high of 165.