There’s estimated to be upwards of 50 serial killers currently active in the US today.
It is much harder to be a serial killer now, but police are still not great at their jobs and especially communicating across state lines. Hell, even communicating across county lines have proven to be too difficult for police to manage or care to do. This is one of the reasons serial killers target sex workers, queer people, and people of color the most - the broader public care less about these victims and the police don’t work as hard to solve their murders.
Shit, the Golden State killer was a cop that operated with impunity for years. He was only caught because a relative used one of those DNA ancestry services.
There’s estimated to be upwards of 50 serial killers currently active in the US today.
It is much harder to be a serial killer now, but police are still not great at their jobs and especially communicating across state lines. Hell, even communicating across county lines have proven to be too difficult for police to manage or care to do. This is one of the reasons serial killers target sex workers, queer people, and people of color the most - the broader public care less about these victims and the police don’t work as hard to solve their murders.
Additionally police are often the murderers themselves.
We all saw what happened to George Floyd.
Shit, the Golden State killer was a cop that operated with impunity for years. He was only caught because a relative used one of those DNA ancestry services.
That’s not a victim silly, it’s just a domestic dispute. Now return the boy to the nice Mr Dahmer.
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?
I remember when words like “study” and “research” actually had particular meanings…
There are people who study this shit in an academic setting.
There’s people that study these things as a profession.
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.