{"id":4354,"date":"2019-02-15T00:03:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T05:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.167.168.176\/~phillips\/kerriansnotebook\/kerriansnotebook\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2025-04-22T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T22:37:10","slug":"kn-p-191-is-heshe-a-serial-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pattiphillipsbooks.com\/kerriansnotebook\/2019\/02\/kn-p-191-is-heshe-a-serial-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"KN, p. 191 “Is he\/she a serial killer?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Warning<\/strong><\/span>: Some content may be too intense for some readers.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2005, the FBI conducted a symposium in Texas for law enforcement officers and defined serial murders in this way: \u201cThe unlawful killing of two or more victims by the same offender(s), in separate events.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As terrifying and brutal as these events are, the FBI reports that serial murders occur in less than one percent of all murders committed in any given year.<\/span><\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean that law enforcement treats serial murders any less seriously, just that most cops will never encounter that kind of case. When they do, the hardest part of the investigation might be recognizing that two or three murders committed across several counties could be linked in some way. Different personnel spread through different jurisdictions might not see all the facts in evidence and never see the connections, hence the reason that some serial killers are never caught.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although not every point is true for all serial killers, there seems to be a common thread in the backgrounds of most, starting in their childhoods. Here are a few of the behaviors<\/strong> that appear to tie the Serial Killer category together.<\/span><\/p>\n