Can You Spot a Killer? The Dangerous Fantasy of Criminal Profiling

What is the interest in true crime and why is it apparently women are more way more interested in true crime than men? It's a huge difference. People say it's because women can identify with the victims in in those stories. Um, and it's most of our greatest fear probably to be sexually assaulted, murdered, you know, in these horrific ways we see. my mother divorced my father.

She dated this other man for several years. He lived with us. Shortly after they split up, he ended up murdering his next girlfriend. There were more people studying serial killers than there were serial killers. There wasn't this serial killer epidemic that was going on.

It was there was Ted Bundy and there was John Wayne Gacy and there were these very high profile killers. But you know you could name them on one hand. So it really wasn't the epidemic that it was made out to be. The size of the attention they got. you know, made it seem like it was.

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