Edmund Kemper, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, David Berkowitz, Herbert Mullin are some examples.
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It was kind of the perfect storm. We had started developing the ability to compare data and track serial killers, but we had yet to develop the skills to identify those killers with any real accuracy. Basically, we could see there _was_ a serial killer, but we couldn’t figure out who all that well.
The prevailing theory is that serial killers are no more rare now than they were 50 years ago, but forensics is so much better now that we catch most of them before they get serious body counts.
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