How many serial killers roamed America in the '50s?
And how many have we had since we were liberated by the intelligencia?
I have speculated about this in the past. On one hand, Islam stifles sexuality (women wear veils, premartial sex is forbidden, as is alcohol and pornography), on the other hand you have the reward for killing yourself (72 virgins). I can see where a gullible young man with raging hormones would do almost anything to get their "reward".
As for American in the 50s, as I recall, people were still getting laid--they just weren't open about out. And there were certainly serial killers then too--how many is an open question. You can say there were fewer, but law enforcement may not have been sophisticated enough to connect the dot like they do today.
An interesting question. I tried to find decade-by-decade stats on this but came up empty.
"How many serial killers roamed America in the '50s?"
You want a serious answer? One of the most notable serial killers of all time, Ed Gein.
Also Harvey Murray Glatman, Billy Cook, Martha Beck and Raymond Hernandez, Charles Starkweather, Jack Gilbert Graham, possibly the Cleveland Torso murderer was active in the 50s, the last possible victim was found in 1950.
As rgb81 alluded, there were probably many more who just weren't caught or their serial murders were never connected due to the lack of technology at a time. I always assumed this is why the only mass murderers we really know of from before the turn of the century were incredibly flagrant and heinous and eccentric; anything less could have slipped under the radar.
Bingo!