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Originally posted by azathoth777
Aberrant behavior is facinating, and serial killing is about as aberrant as you can get. I have many books on serial killers, and even a few on killer kids. It's interseting to see what people are capable of and what, if anything, drives them to it. How can someone be a loving husband and father, a pillar of the comunity, and go out and tear apart another human being every other week....
Could I be a victim; could I just flip one day and start doing that; could my neighbor be a serial killer, my girl/boyfriend, my father....
This, and more, is what makes them so 'popular'.
To those outside they are normal people, until there caught. They could be anyone. Someone here my be one.....
-Serial Killer Statistics -
The USA has 76% of the worlds serial killers.
Europe in second, has 17%. England has produced 28% of the European total; Germany produces 27%, and France produces 13%.
California leads in the US with the most Serial Homicide cases that have occured. Texas, New York, Illinois, and Florida follow shortly behind.
Maine has the lowest occurence of serial murders - none. Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, Delaware, and Vermont each have had only one case of a serial murder.
84% of American killers are caucasian.
16% are black.
Men make up at least 90% of the world wide total of serial killers.
65% of victims are female.
89% of victims are white.
44% of all killers start in their twenties.
26% start in their teens.
24% start in their thirties.
Out of all the killers, 86% are heterosexual.
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funny but i dont find it fascinating at all ..
unless you are a phsychologist or in law enforcement i cant understand the attraction to this kind of information.
i do understand being interested in things ..
some people like cars .. want to know how they work - keep stats ..
some people like aircraft - same thing.
I like movies and a ton of other stuff ...
these interests enrich peoples lives. I cant comprehend being fascinated with the minds and methods and motivations of the foulest scum on the planet.
to me i draw a comparrison with being fascinated with shit.
there is shit in the world .. we shit every day.
i'm really not interested in shit .. whats in it .. why i's brown.
how big some peoples shit is, how many times they shit.
i just wipe it off and flush it away.
i suppose that if there was a reason for me to need to know about shit (i was a Dr.) then it would be interesting to me but i'm not.
the information does nothing to enrich my life or stimulate my mind because i find shit unpleasant.
i guess i'm speaking soley for myself here but i have no interest or find no fascination with human pieces of shit. talking about them outside the police station gives most of them exactly what they wanted when they set out to destroy lives in the 1st place .. attention.
i like horror films for the goofy escapism and the attempt at thrills ..i have always preferred the supernatural films because they arent real.
i guess i've always been uncomfortable when the lines of entertainment get blurred with unpleasant reality - as exploitation films often do.
this whole serial killer thing plays into that very closely.
am i saying everyone should think like me? - nope
i'm just saying that because the thinking is so foreign to me - i i do really wonder - and question the thought process of people who are fascinated with shit.