Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agoAre there any serial killers still active in the US today? With all the tech like dna, fingerprints, flock camera's etc. Would it be almost impossible to be one?message-squaremessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up156arrow-down12
arrow-up154arrow-down1message-squareAre there any serial killers still active in the US today? With all the tech like dna, fingerprints, flock camera's etc. Would it be almost impossible to be one?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square37linkfedilink
minus-squareoriginal_charles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·2 months ago There’s estimated to be upwards of 50 serial killers currently active in the US today. Who’s coming up with that estimation?
minus-squarevelma@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoThe FBI along with others that study crime rates and methodology. Several universities have studied these homicide rates for example. Who do you think would be studying this sort of thing?
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months ago50 and growing, with Kash on the job.
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down4·2 months ago Who do you think would be studying this sort of thing? Bored housewives addicted to true crime drama?
minus-squarevelma@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 months agoThere’s people that study these things as a profession.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 months agoI remember when words like “study” and “research” actually had particular meanings… There are people who study this shit in an academic setting.
minus-squareW98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoI think you mean “Informational Murder Porn”
minus-squareoriginal_charles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·2 months agoI was asking for you to link a source in an apparently not direct enough way. Would you please link a source to this claim so I don’t have to just take your word for it? I cannot find the FBI actually saying how many they estimated were currently active.
minus-squarevelma@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up15·edit-22 months agohttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/373258117_RadfordFGCU_Annual_Report_on_Serial_Killer_Statistics_2023?channel=doi&linkId=64e3b51f0acf2e2b520960ea&showFulltext=true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_Accountability_Project It’s an estimation made from the data of unsolved murder statistics mostly. That’s why the stat is up to 50 and not a firm number.
Who’s coming up with that estimation?
The FBI along with others that study crime rates and methodology. Several universities have studied these homicide rates for example.
Who do you think would be studying this sort of thing?
50 and growing, with Kash on the job.
Bored housewives addicted to true crime drama?
There’s people that study these things as a profession.
I remember when words like “study” and “research” actually had particular meanings…
There are people who study this shit in an academic setting.
I think you mean “Informational Murder Porn”
I was asking for you to link a source in an apparently not direct enough way.
Would you please link a source to this claim so I don’t have to just take your word for it?
I cannot find the FBI actually saying how many they estimated were currently active.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373258117_RadfordFGCU_Annual_Report_on_Serial_Killer_Statistics_2023?channel=doi&linkId=64e3b51f0acf2e2b520960ea&showFulltext=true
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_Accountability_Project
It’s an estimation made from the data of unsolved murder statistics mostly.
That’s why the stat is up to 50 and not a firm number.