If only that were true.
The arrest rate for murder in general is hovering around 62% - that means almost 40% of the time, no one gets arrested for the crime. That's not even looking at what happens when the case gets into the court system.
Despite what you see on TV, stranger murders are extremely rare and often, with no connection, no one gets arrested.
Yes, I agree.
My point was that in the era of Bundy, law enforcement often failed to connect multiple stranger murders to the same killer.
Today, every stranger murder of a woman, and every suspicious disappearance, is profiled immediately against similar crimes nationally.
And the local news media immediately alert the public to any “serial killer” evidence.
I really do believe that luck is the only way a modern serial killer can escape capture for more than a couple years.