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Murders: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary , US Senate, 98th Congress, 1st Session, on patterns of murders committed by one person in large numbers with no apparent rhyme, reason or motivation. July 12, When the lethality of a femme fatale is presented in book or film, she is most often portrayed as the manipulated victim of a dominant male. This popular but stereotypical media image is consistent with traditional gender myths in society which claim that boys are aggressive by nature while girls are passive.

In fact, both aggressiveness and passivity can be learned through socialization and they are not gender specific. The reality concerning the gender of serial killers is quite different than the mythology of it. Although there have been many more male serial killers than females throughout history, the presence of female serial killers is well documented in the crime data. In fact, approximately 17 percent of all serial homicides in the U. Therefore, relative to men, women represent a larger percentage of serial murders than all other homicide cases in the U.

This is an important and revealing fact that defies the popular understanding of serial murder. Reality: Contrary to popular mythology, not all serial killers are white. Serial killers span all racial and ethnic groups in the U. The racial diversity of serial killers generally mirrors that of the overall U. African-Americans comprise the largest racial minority group among serial killers, representing approximately 20 percent of the total. Significantly, however, only white, and normally male, serial killers such as Ted Bundy become popular culture icons.

Real-life serial killers are not the isolated monsters of fiction and, frequently, they do not appear to be strange or stand out from the public in any meaningful way. Many serial killers are able to successfully hide out in plain sight for extended periods of time. Those who successfully blend in are typically also employed, have families and homes and outwardly appear to be non-threatening, normal members of society. Because serial killers can appear to be so innocuous, they are often overlooked by law enforcement officials, as well as their own families and peers.

In some rare cases, an unidentified serial killer will even socialize and become friendly with the unsuspecting police detectives who are tracking him. Serial killers who hide out in plain sight are able to do so precisely because they look just like everyone else. It is their ability to blend in that makes them very dangerous, frightening and yet very compelling to the general public. Reality: The roaming, homicidal maniac such as Freddy Krueger in the cult film A Nightmare on Elm Street is another entertainment media stereotype that is rarely found in real life.

Among the most infamous serial killers, Ted Bundy is the rare exception who traveled and killed interstate. African-Americans are the largest racial minority in the United States and also among serial killers. The graph above depicts subjects race and body count from the years Whites have a staggering body count of 1, , followed by Blacks with , Hispanics count is , Asians count is , Native Americans at 16 , and Other at 2.

It is a common misconception that all serial killers are white males. Law enforcement, the public, and especially media has a tendency to overplay and stereotype the white serial killers and their victim selection and make them become fascinating, popular icons. In upcoming slides it is written in great detail about white serial killers. An infamous African American killer is Wayne Williams. The trial began in , in which he was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences without parole.

Wayne Williams was originally arrested in in connection to the murders of two men in Atlanta, Georgia, but he may have killed more. For the murders of victims Nathaniel Cater and Jimmy Rayne , Williams was sentenced to two life sentences.

Now 61 years old, he is currently serving his sentence in Georgia. Williams is also believed to be responsible for the Atlanta Child Murders , in which 28 children were murdered. This claim is supported by the theory that the unsolved murders seemed to stop once Williams was arrested. However, Williams has never been charged for these murders and continues to claims to be innocent.

Durousseau was a Jacksonville, Florida, cab driver who would befriend his victims before killing them. Over the course of six years, he allegedly raped and strangled his victims in Georgia and Florida. Durousseau was arrested in for the murder of Tyresa Mack and was later sentenced to death by lethal injection in Jacksonville, Florida.

In , his death sentence was thrown out by the Florida Supreme Court and ordered he face a new hearing. Durousseau is currently sitting on death row in Jacksonville. Between and , Carl Eugene Watts murdered over a dozen women in across the nation. In , Watts was sentenced to two life sentences for the murders of Gloria Steele in and Helen Dutcher in Watts confessed to 12 additional murders in Texas but was given immunity by the court.



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