“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.
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.”