Modern Life Has Made It Easier for Serial Killers to Thrive
They get away with their crimes about 40 percent of the time.
T1970s and ’80s are remembered as the serial killer’s heyday—think of Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz. Since then, data suggest, the number of serial killers—defined by the National Institute of Justice as those who commit two or more separate murders, often with a psychological motive and a sadistic sexual component—has plunged, ; the FBI now says that serial killers account for . Several reasons are commonly cited for
