Title: New profile of serial killers debunks long-held myths
Headings: New profile of serial killers debunks long-held myths
New profile of serial killers debunks long-held myths
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Myth: Serial killers are white males
Myth: Serial killers are misfits
Myth: Serial killers are evil geniuses
Myth: All serial killers are perverts
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Content: Chinese-American mass murderer Charles Ng received the death sentence after torturing and killing at least 11 people — six men, three women and two male infants — with an accomplice in a remote cabin in Northern California in the mid-1980s, according to the Los Angeles Times. Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, a native of Mexico, murdered nine people in Kentucky, Texas and Illinois before turning himself in in 1999. Derrick Todd Lee, an African-American known as the “Baton Rouge Serial Killer,” went on a killing spree beginning in 1992 that claimed the lives of seven women in Louisiana. Aileen Wuornos was executed in October 2002 for killing at least six men she met along Interstate 75 in Florida. Copy: Serial Killer IQ - Infogram
Serial Killer IQ - Infogram
Myth: Serial killers are misfits
The majority of mass murders contributed to and interacted with the community — whether before, during or after their crime sprees. Serial killers are married, employed and have served in combat. In some cases, their seemingly normal lives helped them elude arrest. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. — who is accused in the “Golden State Killer” case — eluded authorities for 40 years, all while getting married to an attorney, divorcing and raising three daughters.