Abstract
The current research provides perspective regarding the true prevalence of serial murderers in modern society and addresses the conflict between the evidenced decline in serial homicide and the vie...
Highlights
To elucidate a fuller picture of the perpetration of serial murder in the United States, the current research utilizes the Consolidated Serial Homicide Offender Database (CSHOD) (Aamodt et al, 2019), an effort that merged the myriad of independent endeavors to document the phenomenon that had emerged over the past few decades (Boyne, 2014)
This resource was used alongside a comparative analysis of the frequency of known and unresolved serial homicide series, and semistructured email interviews of thirty-four experts
The past decade contained almost half the cases (13%) that existed at the 1980s peak of serial homicide (27%)
Summary
The lack of consensus regarding the absence of official statistics on serial murderers (McNamara & Morton, 2004) bolsters support for the resurgence of true crime which is built on assertions that serial murderers are the worst type of criminal (Shenfeld, 2018), but that they are “everywhere” (Byrne, 2017; Dumcius, 2017; Key, 2018; Kutner, 2017; Sasko, 2018; Sweeney, Williams-Harris, & Nickeas, 2018, Gellatly, 2017; Whiffen, 2017) These ideas are remnants of an assumption regarding linkages between thousands of unresolved homicides (Yaksic, 2019a) and each has given rise to the misconception that serial homicide is not declining
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