Let's take the zodiac for example. The only scant motive that anyone would speculate on why Zodiac killed so brutally and so many over so many years was his sociopathic love of media attention and playing a cat and mouse game with the authorities. Within weeks of the second killing, he send cryptic and taunting messages from this brutal serial killer confessing the crimes with details only the killer would know.
Most likely, when the killer gets the first or second kill, he would run to the media to let the people the achievements he has accomplished. Then the game begins again. In other words the media send the message like; if you commit some atrocity we will publicize it and make it seem militarily significant. So that's the way they get such attention.
Even dough serial killers have a psychology in their mind about what they are doing, serial are more likely a fenomenon rather than a psychology. Serial killers create a culture and a society inside of their thoughts. The mode of thinking that makes a serial killer psychology, is a fenomenon or something very rare. There are serial on the loose and the number when you think about it, big but those make a small percentage of the society.
Japan gave the serial killers hitory with 12 serial killers to date.
Yes, most serial killers are male.
Most serial killers are white and the US is has the most of them.
I could find no serial killers from Coweta, KY.
Well there is no special word for it they are just basically serial killers.
I think there are 4% of serial killers are murdered in jail
Below is a link to a complete list of serial killers.
No. The vast majority of serial killers have been straight men.
Studies have shown that most serial killers are born in November.
There are many theories as to why serial killers appear
Wikipedia serial killers by country. This lists both sexes so you will have to pick out the females as needed. ANSWER: Wilkipedia's list of female serial killers is woefully out of date. There are well over 600 known cases. The best (by far) introduction to the "worst" female serial killers is: The World's Creepiest Female Serial Killers. (online)