Posted on 08/08/2016 1:55:55 PM PDT by Nachum
Serial killers may kill more victims than we think: IU News Room: Indiana University
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/web/page/normal/7225.html
Serial killers may be responsible for up to 10 times as many U.S. deaths as previously estimated, according to an analysis by a criminologist at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Kenna Quinet, associate professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI, makes the case for the higher death figures in an article titled, “The Missing Missing: Toward a Quantification of Serial Murder Victimization in the United States.” It was published recently in the journal Homicide Studies.
Missing and Wanted
Photo by: Tyra Robertson
Quinet writes that a lack of reliable data about the “missing missing” — including marginalized groups such as prostitutes, transients, gay street hustlers, foster children and “thrown-away” teens — is likely to contribute to undercounting of the victims of serial killers. Recent academic estimates of the average number of serial killer victims each year range from 67 to 180. Quinet’s analysis, based on conservative extrapolations from existing data, would add at least 182 and possibly as many 1,832 victims.
“We’re talking about a factor of two clear up to a factor of 10,” she said. “And this is not new — these are victims that we’ve always been not counting.”
The article marks a return to a subject of early professional interest for Quinet, who is also a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment at IUPUI, teaches a course each spring titled, “Murder in America,” and is a member of the Indiana Violent Crime and Homicide Investigator’s Association.
In research published in 1990, she debunked wildly inflated claims about the number of serial killer victims that had been circulated by special interest and advocacy groups and in the news media. But the much more conservative calculations of victim numbers that followed were also inaccurate, she said, because they were based on incomplete data.
“The true number of serial murder victims in the United States is a function of what we know — apprehended killers and strongly suspected serial murder cases — as well as what we do not know — serial murder cases that for one reason or another are off the radar of police, coroners, medical examiners and others officials,” she writes in the Homicide Studies article. “The exaggeration and hype of the 1980s have been replaced by more reasonable estimates, but we may yet be undercounting the number of serial murder victims in the United States by discounting what we do not know.”
What we do not know includes: How often are the bodies of murder victims never found or never identified as victims? What happens to members of marginalized groups who disappear but are never reported missing, because no one cares enough about them or knows enough about them to file a report? How often do we fail to detect murders of people who were expected to die, such as hospital patients and nursing home residents?
Quinet applies known information about serial murderers and their victims to available data about missing persons, overall U.S. deaths, hospital census figures and information about the “missing missing” — missing persons who were never reported as missing — to calculate that current estimates may be failing to account for between 182 and 1,832 victims of serial killings a year.
The article cites the case of the Green River serial killer in Washington as an example of how including the “missing missing” could change the numbers. One-third of the killer’s 48 known victims were never reported missing, had been mistakenly deleted from police missing-persons databases, or were never identified.
https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/serial-murder
A short ride up I-190 from Worcester in your Honda, cruise the side roads looking for a Gringa jogging a alone, snatch her and dispose of her.
Street view of Brooks Station Road (you can see it in the source URL as well:
I don’t think refugees would bother trying to burn the evidence, they’re usually proud of what they’ve done. Sounds like homegrown animals to me.
When you are alone in a remote area, if you are in enough danger to pepper spray, you are in enough danger to shoot.
2nd raped and murdered female jogger in one week. There truly are monsters among us.
“Damn, run with a gun.”
Not in Massachusetts you don’t... it’s a “may issue” state for handguns, which really means “hardly ever issue” when it comes to Boston and the liberal suburban areas.
“Dollars to donuts she was a Rat. Was she a “somebody” Rat?”
Spare us.
“It’s possible that serial murders are back, just as in the 1970 - 80’s.”
Serial killers never stopped. What changed was that in the 90s murder convictions based on DNA evidence became big news. Since serial killers rarely have any easily discernible connection to their victims, DNA technology scared a lot of them, because they had left hard evidence laying around that could now come back to haunt them.
After that period, they didn’t stop killing, they just got a whole lot more careful about leaving evidence behind. So instead of clear serial murder cases, you just see a lot of missing persons with no bodies ever found.
Get off your 'girl power' high horses, gals.
I believe it.
You do realize I agree with what you said.
However, for those who live in firearm forbidden states and cities (MA, NJ, NY, IL, CA), powerful pepper spray, taser gun and martial arts proficiency may well be the only thing you’ve got.
This kond of thing is only going to get worse as the economy tanks, and people become more wicked alienated & drugged.
RE: “When you are out in the woods alone, pepper spray and tasers just dont cut it.
When you are alone in a remote area, if you are in enough danger to pepper spray, you are in enough danger to shoot.”
Tragic job choice.
I’d argue that what is the right thing to do may not always be legal. Tried by 12 rather than carried by six. Your milage may vary. If she had broken the law by carrying, she might be alive, who knows.
A beautiful place to run and an easy place to seize a small woman.
She was a person.
"...Dollars to donuts she was a Rat. Was she a 'somebody' Rat?..."
That’s about the best explanation / clarification I’ve heard to address why we don’t hear about serial killers as much as we did back in the 70’s & 80’s.
RE: “Serial killers never stopped. What changed was that in the 90s murder convictions based on DNA evidence became big news. Since serial killers rarely have any easily discernible connection to their victims, DNA technology scared a lot of them, because they had left hard evidence laying around that could now come back to haunt them.
After that period, they didn’t stop killing, they just got a whole lot more careful about leaving evidence behind. So instead of clear serial murder cases, you just see a lot of missing persons with no bodies ever found.”
The US media won’t touch this story until they can confirm the suspect is a white male. If not, or if otherwise (as it almost certainly is), then no mention of it, at all.
Have to think this is a serial killer of some kind.
I’d say even if you don’t want a gun at least get some mace
I don’t see that it says how she was killed. If she wasn’t shot the MSM will never mention her death. If she was shot, but by a minority or immigrant, same thing.
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