Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
We assume people we know can't be serial killers.
We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.
While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
