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Groovelord Neato posted:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/11/12/dangerous-minds You're not wrong about John Douglas, but Malcolm Gladwell is also often full of poo poo. It's pretty hilarious reading John Douglas defending Karla Hmolka in one of his first books. He paints her as an absolute victim, with no shred of doubt that her husband brainwashed her into covering up his crimes through fear and abuse. After he wrote that profile, a video tape was found that showed that Karla was not only an active participant in the torture and murders her and Paul Bernardo committed, she was probably the dominant personality. Whoops.
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viral spiral posted:I think mentally hosed people have sidelined serial killing in favor of mass shootings because evading the authorities for long periods of time isn't sustainable in the current surveillance state that we live in. Now add in the miracles of modern DNA testing that brought down The Golden State Killer and, welp. Literally hundreds of women disappear every year and are never heard from or seen again. They're mostly poor, and often drug users or sex workers so their disappearances are never investigated. A lot of times they're never officially reported as missing. When their bodies are found, they're held for a few months and dumped in potter's fields, and the smallest amount of effort possible is put into finding out what happened to them. After 9/11 federal funding and assistance to local law enforcement was slashed for cases that don't involve the "war on terror" or "the war on drugs". A bunch of states don't swab convicted felons for DNA samples, and even if they do those samples often get put into a freezer and forgotten. Just like the samples taken from rape victims. If anyone thinks serial killers are a thing of the past, check out this map from the FBI's Highway Serial Killer Initiative. 750 bodies found dumped along US highways in the last 30 years. 250 of those since 2004. 
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