Serial killers have existed since the beginnings of the human race. Long before “nicknames” lol. And while there are outliers in any group it wouldn’t do a thing, and here’s why.
A serial killer in the classical sense is referring to “serial sexual homicide“ the vast majority of the time. The fbi is on record stating this. They are in large part created through the unnatural fusion of the sex and aggression drives. This along with a focus on need for control.
They often go to great lengths to cover everything they do completely, and several have even tried to sue authors for calling them those “cool” names you mention. Some enjoy attention because it helps them relive the crimes in retrospect, that’s the true motivation for that aspect. Killing is actually secondary as far as motive for the majority, it’s based on control with a very strong sexual element. Bundy killed women because he was heterosexual. Gacy killed males because he was homosexual.
They are statistically extremely rare (and getting rarer if you believe the stats) in comparison to mass shooters (who do act out for attention often) and other killers.
In short, a lot of odd things have to go wrong for one to come into existence. And it has little to do with this basic and stupid notion of nicknames or fame. They may enjoy the monikers they are given afterwards, but they would’ve been serial killers regardless.
Read a damn book instead of being a social media dumbass.
We need to stop cool names for serial killers
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Serial killers have existed since the beginnings of the human race. Long before “nicknames” lol. And while there are outliers in any group it wouldn’t do a thing, and here’s why.
A serial killer in the classical sense is referring to “serial sexual homicide“ the vast majority of the time. The fbi is on record stating this. They are in large part created through the unnatural fusion of the sex and aggression drives. This along with a focus on need for control.
They often go to great lengths to cover everything they do completely, and several have even tried to sue authors for calling them those “cool” names you mention. Some enjoy attention because it helps them relive the crimes in retrospect, that’s the true motivation for that aspect. Killing is actually secondary as far as motive for the majority, it’s based on control with a very strong sexual element. Bundy killed women because he was heterosexual. Gacy killed males because he was homosexual.
They are statistically extremely rare (and getting rarer if you believe the stats) in comparison to mass shooters (who do act out for attention often) and other killers.
In short, a lot of odd things have to go wrong for one to come into existence. And it has little to do with this basic and stupid notion of nicknames or fame. They may enjoy the monikers they are given afterwards, but they would’ve been serial killers regardless.
Read a damn book instead of being a social media dumbass.