Most serial killers have an average to low IQ.....like Gary Ridgeway, the Green River Killer, was guilty of murdering 49 prostitutes, & is said to have killed over 85 all together......he had a low IQ, & was on the borderline of mentally challenged.
Ted Bundy had a high IQ, basically a genius, but IMO, had no common sense......he would do the most stupid stuff & get caught.
Ted would always use his real name in public, at the beach, etc as he was stalking for a victim, & lots of people would hear his name.
One of the most prolific serial killers was the Golden State Killer.....reading about him for several months before he was caught last April, 32 years after his last known murder. This guy was so methodical, planned everything to the extreme......they say he was OCD when it came to how he committed his crimes, everything had to go his way, or he would go crazy, not that he wasn't.
There are a lot of evil people in the world, & there are a ton of serial killers we will never know about because they haven't gotten caught, & never will. The Long Island Serial Killer is one that has slipped thru & there seems no way he will every be caught.
Ted Bundy had a high IQ, basically a genius, but IMO, had no common sense......he would do the most stupid stuff & get caught.
Ted would always use his real name in public, at the beach, etc as he was stalking for a victim, & lots of people would hear his name.
One of the most prolific serial killers was the Golden State Killer.....reading about him for several months before he was caught last April, 32 years after his last known murder. This guy was so methodical, planned everything to the extreme......they say he was OCD when it came to how he committed his crimes, everything had to go his way, or he would go crazy, not that he wasn't.
There are a lot of evil people in the world, & there are a ton of serial killers we will never know about because they haven't gotten caught, & never will. The Long Island Serial Killer is one that has slipped thru & there seems no way he will every be caught.
I think a guy like Jeffrey Dahmer just got lucky. He had some body parts in a trunk in his grandparent's basement and his grandfather actually told him to open the trunk but he talked his way out of opening it.
Remember the kid with a handcuff on also escaped his apartment and the cop gave the kid back to him as he thought it was a homosexual relationship gone bad?
Remember the kid with a handcuff on also escaped his apartment and the cop gave the kid back to him as he thought it was a homosexual relationship gone bad?
Yeah, Ted always drove that VW Beetle....... guy had no common sense.
Do you mean the BTK killer? If so, he was very careful & planned out his murders that took weeks or months to plan. The guy was stupid tho cuz he asked the police if he sent them.a computer disk, could it be traced back to him, they lied & said no......so he goes to his church & writes on letter to the police & saves it on a disk which had the churches info on it, that's how he got caught......the BTK killer would have never gotten caught, he was never on the cops radar. He killed 10 people from 1974 to 1991, then quit......cops thought he died, & then like 14 years later, he started corresponding with them again, he loved the attention of being on the news, & that was he down fall in the end.
The technology back in the 1970's & 80's was ridiculous to what we have today.......no video cameras back then, hardly any aleam systems in homes, etc......now a days, a serial killer that doesn't want to get caught would have to do his home work.....a lot of planning.
Recently completed POPULAR CRIME by Bill James (2011)
He spent over 20 years reviewing well known criminal events (mostly killers). He nicely summarizes that in fact, virtually all men who commit more than one murder are at best, average intelligence. Also remarkably few true "serial killers" have actually existed at least in context of how they are portrayed in popular fiction (books) movies and television.
Most rare, likely less than a dozen, is the guy who carefully plots a way to kidnap women (it's almost always males killing females) take them to a secret location, torture and kill them and then repeat the process.
He also notes that in the last half century there are on average approx 300 or less kidnappings of children annually by someone not related to them by blood.
He spent over 20 years reviewing well known criminal events (mostly killers). He nicely summarizes that in fact, virtually all men who commit more than one murder are at best, average intelligence. Also remarkably few true "serial killers" have actually existed at least in context of how they are portrayed in popular fiction (books) movies and television.
Most rare, likely less than a dozen, is the guy who carefully plots a way to kidnap women (it's almost always males killing females) take them to a secret location, torture and kill them and then repeat the process.
He also notes that in the last half century there are on average approx 300 or less kidnappings of children annually by someone not related to them by blood.
Been working away through The Americans (currently in Season 3 which takes place in 1983.
Wife was puzzled as to "how can they kill so many people and not leave DNA?".
Had to remind her that prior to that very year (1983 in London, England) that the DNA profile was first succesfully mapped. The first conviction (and a related acquittal of wrongly convicted man) was not until Jan 1988.
It is reasonable to state that a significant factor in OJ being acquitted in summer 1995 was that American prosecutors had only been using DNA profiling for just a couple years and juries were therefore understandably skeptical of the science involved
Wife was puzzled as to "how can they kill so many people and not leave DNA?".
Had to remind her that prior to that very year (1983 in London, England) that the DNA profile was first succesfully mapped. The first conviction (and a related acquittal of wrongly convicted man) was not until Jan 1988.
It is reasonable to state that a significant factor in OJ being acquitted in summer 1995 was that American prosecutors had only been using DNA profiling for just a couple years and juries were therefore understandably skeptical of the science involved
Ruefully fun fact.....Well over 50% of "CSI"-style lab gimmicks and "personal information" computer database info shown to be used by television cops is utterly fictional.
Most rarely a true inculpatory bit of evidence in all murder cases - at least with regard to how it's purported to be a real "deal closer" in popular fiction and TV - is fingerprints
Most rarely a true inculpatory bit of evidence in all murder cases - at least with regard to how it's purported to be a real "deal closer" in popular fiction and TV - is fingerprints
