Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 days 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-square22fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down11
arrow-up132arrow-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 days agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareoriginal_charles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days 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-up9arrow-down1·edit-22 days 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-up9·2 days ago50 and growing, with Kash on the job.
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 days ago Who do you think would be studying this sort of thing? Bored housewives addicted to true crime drama?
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 day agoI remember when words like “study” and “research” actually had particular meanings… There are people who study this shit in an academic setting.
minus-squarevelma@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 days agoThere’s people that study these things as a profession.
minus-squareoriginal_charles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days 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-up7·edit-22 days 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?
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.