“the number of serial murders has gone through the roof”
The number of documented serial murders has gone through the roof. I don’t think we have any real idea if the actual number is increasing or not.
I mean, we didn’t even know about the phenomenon until the last century or so, so before that they could have been just as common and we just did not realize what was happening. Our capabilities to detect such things have also increased steadily since we started tracking these killers, as we developed fingerprinting, criminal psychology, different kinds of forensic analysis, and DNA testing. So who knows if the increase is actually an increase, or an artifact of our increased ability to detect the patterns in these crimes?
“The number of documented serial murders has gone through the roof. I don’t think we have any real idea if the actual number is increasing or not.”
I’ve theorized that there’s probably at least one out there, who hasn’t even made his way onto the radar yet, who has so many kills that he makes all others seem small.