Myth: Serial killers are only motivated by sex.
All serial killers are not sexually-based. There are many other motivations for serial killers including anger, thrill, financial gain, and attention seeking. For example, Kermit Gosnell was hugely motivated by financial gain.
Myth: Serial killers are all white male.
Serial killers are from all ethnic groups. For instance, Gosnell is black. Charles Ng is Chinese. He was convicted of killing six men, three women, and two babies in Northern California with his partner, Leonard Lake. Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, also known as the Railroad Killer is a Latino. Was an illegal alien from Mexico and killed at least nine and as many as fifteen people in Kentucky, Texas, Florida and Illinois. There are also female serial killers. For example, Nannie Doss was a black widow who went through five husbands before being caught and charged with a slew of murders including those of her five husbands, a mother-in-law, her sisters, two of their children, and her own mother.
Myth: Serial killers are all dysfunctional loners.
Dr. Elizabeth Yardley, director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University in the UK, explained in a July 2015 article in Real Crime magazine that “many serial killers look like a pillar of the community on first sight,” something she described as “possibly the scariest trait of all“ among the murderers she has studied. Many people described Gosnell as being nice. Ted Bundy was described as being normal.
Myth: All serial killers are either insane or evil geniuses.
Gosnell is sane but a narcist.
Myth: Serial killers want to be caught.
According to the FBI, “As serial killers continues to offend without being captured, they can become empowered, feeling they will never be identified…they feel that they can’t get caught.”
Source: Gosnell: The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer (2017) by Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer.
There were also five serial killers in the Soviet Union which according to the Left was a utopia. So, if capitalism causes crime according to Karl Marx then why did the USSR have any serial killers at all? China had two serial killers. The Ottoman Empire had one serial killer.
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