[Citizen Zed]

Would anyone miss this author if a serial killer nabbed him?

[EEGator]

He isn’t glorifying them.

[cripplecreek]

I’m no fan of serial killers.

[Morgana]

Somehow I don’t think Kermit Gosnell will have fans.

[I want the USA back]

What do you mean «we» idiot? speak for yourelf.

[hinckley buzzard]

Scott Bonn is a journalism and sociology major, not a behavioral scientist. His conclusions and explanations are tendentious and not very accurate.

He misses the key feature in attraction to serial killers (almost exclusively a female attraction) which is that they make women feel sexy, and instigate identification with the aggressor.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The most prolific of serial killers never get caught, and often as not, nobody knows there is a serial killer because they don’t know that anyone, much less dozens or hundreds of people, have been murdered.

For example, Dr. Harold Shipman, who it is known murdered 250 people and likely many more beyond that. Ironically, had he been murdering people today, many of his murdering colleagues in the NHS would make him look like a piker, racking up death tolls in the thousands. Shipman would still be commended for his high quota of euthanasia victims.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman

Other murderers can be more subtle, such as touting a quack cure for a dangerous medical condition, steering their victims away from conventional medicine until it is too late.

Then there are those that are more direct, like abortionists.

[crazydad]

Dude I loved Bonn Scott. He rocked!

[Nepeta]

The sick attraction of women to serial killers is rooted in this society's confusion of notoriety with celebrity. This is also why some of them involve themselves with serial killers in prison--they find association with these men the closest they will come to public attention.

It is sick.