 In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence. |
| Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers. |
| Often, a serial killer has no felony record. |
| Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide. |
| Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike. |
| All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully. |
| What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer. |
| The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully. |
| The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders. |
| While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers. |
| Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books. |
| There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you. |
| Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society. |
| In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court. |
| The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight. |
| Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do. |
| Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around. |
| Using MO to link crimes can be problematic. |
| Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three! |
| We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children. |
