Again, it's an issue of proportion not total numbers.

Yes, more white receive welfare, etc, but a higher percentage of blacks as they are represented.

That's something I worry about, because it indicates an attitude in the psychiatric and law enforcement community that indicates a closed mind on the issue. Just because there's no evidence that such a thing exists doesn't automatically mean that they don't. Statistically, something like 2300 people a day go missing here in the US. The number of "found", either as those who are located, or those whose bodies are eventually discovered, does not even come close to matching that number, which leaves a lot of room for any of our theoretical "smarter" serial killers to operate successfully. There's a lot of potential, in other words, for there to be some very intelligent, cunning, and dedicated serial killers out there, who we haven't been smart enough to even notice. The fact that we've got jails full of the less intelligent ones doesn't really mean squat, when it comes to assessing the threat of there being some smarter practitioners.

Personally, I suspect there are a lot of serial killers who've managed to be smart and disciplined enough not to get caught, probably going back a lot further than we'd like to think. With the ease of modern communications and travel, the scope for such things has opened up beyond the wildest dreams of the old-time serial killers. They're out there, and I think at least a few are being protected by the dismissive idea that they "can't exist...". Considering how hard it's been to catch some of the stupider ones, I'm not about to buy the idea that there aren't some smarter ones out there we haven't even noticed, let alone caught.

Russell's Teapot comes to mind on the first part.  Also, on the second part, that leaves a lot of room for people to walk into the woods or the desert and commit suicide, to get murdered by someone they know and be disposed of in the garbage or at sea, and to assume a new identity and walk the Earth, like Cain in Kung-fu.  Yeah, it's possible for there to be at least one guy like the ones on TV and the movies.  But it would be unreasonable to assume that's the case without any evidence.



 

This post is fucking ridiculous.  You honestly think there are serial killers with dozens of different cars equipped with special capture devices,, torture pits with attached secret lab, mega yachts, massive industrial complexes or helicopters to dispose of bodies?

How about the show Dexter?  Think that premise is  REMOTELY possible in real life?

As for people disappearing. Most do because they damn well want to.  No evil intent  needed.   Stranger on stranger  murders are pretty rare, all said and done.

Uh, I'd advise you to check the stats before you make such statements. In many cases, depending on program, you're going to find that your statement hasn't been true since the 90's. Many programs reached a point in the mid-to-late 90's where black families made up the majority of aid recipients.

Actually they do exist, they are just very few and far between.  Herman Mudgett, aka Dr. H.H. Holmes, was a con man who built an entire hotel in Chicago in 1893.  The entire building was designed to allow him to trap, rob, torture, and dispose of his vicitms.

I watched a documentary (And read the book) "Devil in the white city" about that SOB.  Scary dude and (Unfortunately) very good at what he was

doing.





 

Your Personal Attacks MULLAH are getting way too old.

It may possibly be that the statistics reflect the records keeping of location where the killers operate.  The US and Europe have very detailed and open court records.  Certainly, there have been serial killers in parts of the world where the information is intentionally suppressed, or where the justice system is inept or non-existent.  Communist China, as was communist Russia, is very tight lipped about news that defames the image of the "workers' paradise".  The toll of the Thugee cult in India is poorly documented, and there are various African warlords that killed probably millions outside of the general mayhem of combat, but are not widely known or researched.

Don't fuck with the one thing we have.

Well, a few things.

First of all, I haven't looked up to prove or disprove the statement.

Secondly, however, it is more of a situation of serial criminals and not just serial killers. Ie, there are serial rapists for example just as there are serial house burglars. The percentage in one crime area may be different in another.

Third, getting into a particular crime, the percentages may (or may not) be vastly different between aspects in that crime. Say, for example, a serial rapist. One might find that an "apologetic" rapist to be more predominately to one segment of the population while an anger excitation rapist is more predominate to another segment. Adding all the numbers up may give one result but one would be technically though not necessarily ethically correct to talk about one kind with rapist as a rapist without listing the particular subsection thus leading to listener confusion. (my terms may be slightly inaccurate; I have not looked at this area for years and I don't have my books with me)

Fourth, sometimes "profiling" just comes down to basic population statistics applied.
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I enjoy being feared.

Sounds like you are focusing on the "young and pretty" rather than the fact that any murder is wrong.

Note I said "sounds like". No personal accusation.

It works in the fact that for any chosen serial killer, the odds are over 65% he is white.  How many other white or black people (i.e. % of population) is entirely irrelevant.
Absent any clues or patterns that indicate a black killer, it would be frugal to concentrate on white suspects.

I'm sure I saw .gov stats that they have surpassed whites by a couple of points.

Hockey?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_watts