'Touched'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
I didn't do that much research into it. The stats that I did find a few months ago were very basic and didn't break down run-of-the-mill female serial killers from the crack-your-skull-open-and-wear-it-as-a-jaunty-hat female serial killers.
Though that could be a project to fill my time here at work.
It's something like seven or eight percent of serial killers are women, the majority of them being in this country.
Maybe there are more, but they weren't caught due to a patronizing "Women wouldn't do that" attitude that is going away, so it's only apparently a rise...
I think that women serial killers have tended to kill family members -- baby after baby, husband after husband, that sort of thing. And, yeah, that's easy to camouflage under "bad luck" rather than "bad behavior".
they weren't caught due to a patronizing "Women wouldn't do that" attitude
There is an interesting statistic here:
They examined 100 cases since 1900 and found an average duration of 8 years before being caught -- double that of the male serial killer.
Female serial killers account for only 8% of all American serial killers, but American females account for 76% of all female serial killers worldwide.
1. Poison (80%)
2. Shooting (20%)
3. Bludgeoning (16%)
4. Suffocation (16%)
5. Stabbing (11%)
6. Drowning (5%)
Will the show (oh, I got mad questions, yo) cover serial killers (3 or more, long period of time) only, or also creative one shots?
I guess if you're profiling victims, the more the merrier.
1. Poison (80%)
See? Family crime. It's really difficult to poison a total stranger. Tylenol notwithstanding.
Will the show (oh, I got mad questions, yo) cover serial killers (3 or more, long period of time) only, or also creative one shots?
The group of agents that the show focuses on is described as a semi-autonomous unit within the FBI's VCU. It seems to be setup so that they can take on any case that looks interesting.
See? Family crime.
There's also the Angel of Death female serial killers, who kill patients in their care.
Family crime. It's really difficult to poison a total stranger.
You have friends, right? Co-workers? You have to think outside the box, or you just get lost in the annals of history.
1. Poison (80%)
Goodbye, Earl.
It's really difficult to poison a total stranger.
Actually, all you have to do is fill some tylenol bottles with cyanide capsules.