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No one knows. There's no definite answer. The term "serial killer" is a recently created term. Back then no one new what to call the phenomenon. It can be inferred that the 'werewolves' of the middle ages were serial killers, since they commited many of the same atrocities that serial killers do today. Another problem was that there wasn't any sort of media back then, so there was no way to report or record serial killers. So the first one could have happened thousands of years ago. We wouldn't ever know. One of the first serial killers that got media attention was probably Jack the Ripper, but I can't be too sure. I wish I could give you an answer, but there's no real way of knowing.

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