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Typical Serial Killers?. Rule 1: Careful of your profiling.
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Rule 1: Careful of your profiling • The DC Sniper: A widely-publicized personality profile in the Baton Rouge serial killer case suggested that police should expect their perp to be a white male. The man arrested and accused in the killings is black. In the Washington D.C. sniper case, profilers focused on a white male loner. The two men arrested there are black. • In both instances, investigators juggled numbers. They also accepted the myth that serial murder is an intraracial event. As a result of these and other miscues, recent news articles have questioned the efficacy of all criminal profiling
Fast Fact: The US produces more serial killers than any other country. Up to 85% of the world's serial killers are in America. How come?
Happy couple next door? PAUL BERNARDO & KARLA HOMOLKA - In-depth feature story on the notorious Canadian serial killer team known as the "Ken and Barbie of Murder and Mayhem." After a highly controversial "Deal with the Devil," the Canadian government was forced to set Karla free. The Canadian government and people are now on a "Karla Watch" to see if she will try to make a quiet life for herself or kill again.
What would make someone into a serial killer? ...are they born that way?