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. Support to convert. Jill asks. Isn't the spouse always the first suspect when it comes to murdered women? Yes, from 35 to 50%. Of them are killed by a current spouse or partner or an ex-spouse or partner, so if you can rule out things like a robbery in the past, a drug deal gone bad, a fight that escalated gang violence, if you can rule out all those things, definitely your The next most likely suspect will be Joi Shei's spouse.

I asked him: Did you know that 1% of cold cases are solved? Our current murder solving rate in this country is only about 50%. If he commits murder, it's kind of around the corner. Whether or not you get arrested for it, our clearance weights are very low. I think it has to do with the fact that we have seen an increase in homicides in recent years and with that we have had a decrease only in the number of police officers. The officers we have are much more than 1% of the cases that are unsolved. Brother Grimbo asked if Jack the Ripper existed or if Victorian England was some kind of stabber.

Jack the River did exist and committed a series of really violent gruesome murders, so as an example, just To show what it was like during that time period, this is a news report from 1888. I think you really know that Victorian in England was quite an unstable place during this period of time. There is actually another serial killer who was operating at the time named Thomas. Cream was found guilty of poisoning nine or 10 people during exactly the same period of time during his execution. His last words are rumored to have been "I'm Jack dot dot dot" although he was actually in prison at the time of some of the murders so it really couldn't have been him and we still don't know exactly who Jack the Ripper is in MSL Simpson since my sister just messaged me to tell me she listened to a podcast and is going to try to solve a murder that the police need, yeah this is something where people listen to podcasts and think I can solve this.

He is known as citizen sluth. The January 6 riots, many of the people who ended up being criminally charged or identified by cian sluth on social media trying to identify. In the case of the murder of Gabby Petito, who was murdered by Brian washing her fiancé, she was missing for a long time. It was actually a group of young people on Tik Tok who began uploading videos of the park where she was losing the truck and was seen. and they were actually able to locate his body and isolate where it was; however, if you talk to most police officers, they will tell you that they don't like this Citizen SLO movement that many times they can go down rabbit holes and end up accusing. people who are truly innocent and can truly destroy lives in Nurman Man's 463 302 ask why serial killers kill.

I want to study their brains so much that in general we can say that there are three broad categories, one of which is power and control. I think it is an example of power. and the control serial killer could be someone like the Zodiac Killer who primarily targeted young couples. In reality it was about murdering people who were in the prime of their lives. One is a sexual motivation. Sexual fantasy. The history of the sexual fantasy category is often people who are sexually aroused by violence or sexually aroused by having sex with bodies after having killed them.

An example of someone motivated by a sexual fantasy would be Ted Bundy. The third category would be a serial killer. motivated by hallucinations a good example of that would be like the Son of Sam's killer, who was motivated by delusions, there have been some studies done on brains of mostly killers, we see some differences, particularly in an area called the amydala, which is a part of the brain that controls things like fear and aggression, it's hard to say that's causal it's the brain that causes the behavior the behavior that causes changes in the brain, but there seems to be something there in some of these early studies in Code Smith asks why murders increased during the coid 19 pandemic, we saw a massive increase in homicides. during coid 19, the biggest year-over-year increase in homicides we've seen since we started tracking this, was about a one-third increase or a 30% jump.

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decreased, but homicides increased specifically it could be because people were not working there was financial strain, there was stress, there was also something that happened when George Floyd was murdered, many cities began to withdraw their policing, which at least It is sometimes called unvigilance, so it is really difficult to separate which of these factors was the main factor. it was probably all at once in one jump Perez Ray asks is # the best murderer in the whole world we are outstanding when it comes to murder um if you look at other countries similar to ours, places in Europe Canada Australia most countries are below Of one homicide per 100,000 inhabitants, the United States is at 4.38 and we are not the worst in the world.

There are other countries per capita in Latin America that do have a higher rate than places like Honduras, Mexico, Jamaica, but when it comes to a type of countries with a similar development. America really shines in Trisha Mckuin 13. Question: Could a psychopath grow in life without giving any signs or will there always be something that gives away some trait? Yes you can go through life and not know someone is a psychopath high rates of psychopathy are seen in industries like the entertainment industry law enforcement law enforcement politics being a serial killer being violent committing crimes is actually not One of the symptoms is what we tend to think of when we think of psychopaths.

There really isn't anything like killing animals or setting fires, that will be a sign. If I were to name one thing that could be a clue, it would be a problem to read other people's emotions and perhaps mimic the emotions without actually feeling those emotions. Yardi says okay. Can someone tell me the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath? Please, there really isn't a clear distinction. Sociopath is a word that was used more in the 80's and 90's, it's used less today, maybe the media and pop culture use it, but as the field of criminology we have really moved towards psychopathy being what we look for and that we can define clinically and that we know how to test, so the field had gone more in the direction of using psychopath instead of sociopath in David 7598 3862 Lo has been asking since the early '90s, why has decreased the rate of murders with firearms while the number of guns has increased significantly?

You may not agree with this: our murder rate in the 90s was extremely high, then we saw a big drop in the 2210s, so it was kind of high in the 90s went down and then in the last five years and particularly in the last two years, we've really seen it skyrocket again during that period of time, gun ownership has increased in this country over time, particularly in the last few years, so we now have more guns than people in this country. About 120 Americans die from guns every day, which would include homicides, suicides, accidents, police shootings, but about 120 people total in the flying nipple frighteningly ask.

I wonder how many unexplained missing people there are. About half a million people go missing each year, down from perhaps a million a year in the 90s, but it is estimated that around 90% of them are found, most of them young people running away from home. , but 10% of those half a million missing people are still leaving. 50,000 people missing and missing every year CC1 asks a real question: what percentage of mass shooters are men? The answer is 98% of mass shooters are men, actually or dare I ask my question about these mass shooters. Is that why schools are primary? middle or high school what attracts you to kill children about 9919 2% of them are actually students of that school so these are people who are targeting their own school or they may be alumni but most likely it is They are current students, they are 15 or 16 years old.

My own research shows that these perpetrators come from homes with a lot of violence and abuse, they tend to study other perpetrators who are like them and feel a part of them and then they target their own school because that's where they have the grievance against those are. the people they blame for their misery. School shootings are designed to be final acts, so perpetrators go in knowing that they're not going to get out of this, and in fact, they want to be known for this, they crave it. notoriety want their name to appear in the history books at snack time ask The Murdoch Murders is such a crazy show on Netflix like how the hell did these people get away with all this Alex Murdoch has been convicted of killing his wife and son and there are also other murders of which he may or may not be guilty, including a housekeeper.

I think this is a good example of how in these small communities it can be very difficult to have an independent criminal investigation, especially if someone has a lot of status and power. in the city and it is very important that whoever is ever investigating a crime has absolutely no relationship with any of the suspects because once that starts to get mixed up, you see mistakes being made and it could be a conscious bias, but a lot of times it is simply unconscious due to preconception. Notions You Have About Book People Marquinn asked: Aren't you worried about all the criminology TV shows on these days that criminals will learn from them and avoid detection?

We have seen television programs that have an effect on the everyday audience we are referring to. to this like the CSI effect in the criminal justice system where people who serve on juries have the expectation that they will receive carpet fiber from some foreign place that will help them identify the body and if that doesn't exist, then it's more They are likely to be acquitted. There has been a study that looked at this and they did not find a similar CSI effect for criminals. It didn't seem like they were learning from these shows and getting smarter about committing crimes, probably because a lot of crimes are perhaps impulsive and it's not that well planned so far, we're not looking at the next question: Who was the serial killer? most prolific in the United States?

The most prolific serial killer in the United States was named Samuel Little. He entrusted Fess with killing more than 90 people. This is a series of mug shots of Samuel Little. arrested by the police for several crimes, but it was never known that he was the one who murdered all these women. He committed murders from approximately 1970 to 2005. His victims tended to be sex workers, women addicted to drugs, women living on the streets, and his method. If he tended to strangle these women, it wasn't until they finally extracted Samuel Little's DNA that they were able to go back and connect him to all of these previous crimes and then he confessed to all of them that he can be connected to for sure 50 or about 60 of them, but They think his 90 confessions are legitimate.

A puppet combo asked what kind of job a serial killer would have and if we look at the patterns in the data, there are some jobs that emerge as perhaps over-represented things, like mechanics. machinists, you see a number of truck drivers and police officers where it is perhaps easier to get their way. The data on serial killers is not great in general, only because there is so little of it and it is difficult to study in tabs. In light of the recent nurse case, serial killers are more likely to be in caring professions than not. There aren't many female serial killers, but there have been plenty of female nurses, according to a recently published study that looked at 16 different nurses.

They had committed serial murders all over the world and over the centuries and they found that it tended to be poisoning and it tended to go undetected for a long period of time because of the profession they had. This recent case, I believe, refers to the British. Nurse Who Was Just Sentenced For Killing Seven Newborn Babies Another example of a serial killer nurse is Kristen Gilbert, who is an American nurse who was convicted of murdering four of her patients who were under her care. She wouldn't extend that to other caring professions. I do not do it.

I don't think there are many social work serial killers, but certainly when it comes to nurses, we see it in Pat doc five. Ask at what age serial killers usually start killing people; In fact, it is greater than other forms of violence when it comes to serial murders. starts in your mid to late 20s so it tends to be a little later in dther 715 made twoYou ask who the Zodiac Killer was and why Ted Cruz was caught. There are many people who have been accused of being the Zodiac Killer. Although Ted Cruz is not one of them, the Zodiac Killer committed a series of murders in Northern California in the 1960s, at least five of which are known, there may have been more.

This is a composite sketch of what they believe the Zodiac Killer looked like based on a couple of the victims who actually survived. There was a suspect named Arthur Lee. Allen was a school teacher, but there was never enough evidence to link him to the crimes. everything was circumstantial. He spent several years in prison for sexually abusing children and then died in the early 90s, so no one was convicted of these crimes. There were a number of unique things about the Zodiac Killer. He sent letters that he demanded be printed in the newspaper. He created these mathematical ciphers that were like these coded puzzles that he wanted. people spending time trying to decipher one was deciphered about a week after it was published two are still unsolved and one was actually only deciphered about 60 years ago after the crime a team of mathematicians deciphered it the ciphers did not give removing their identity, they basically just said: I like to kill all my victims, they will become my slaves and an afterlife, he didn't give any additional hint that he was interested in making the public a part of these killing people by forcing them to play with these codes i was posting at the big dance 0 179335 asks why serial killers in prison get tons of marriage proposals from women.

This is a phenomenon. I have worked on capital murder cases with people facing death. pity and the more media coverage the case had, the more letters those people would receive. I think the women writing these letters are romantically attracted to this very dangerous person who has done these scary and dangerous things. I don't think these women are looking at themselves to get hurt, but they are attracted to the fact that this person is capable of causing that level of harm. Colleen Ben asked if it seems like family annihilations are happening more often. There was a surge in family annihilations in 2019 where we saw record levels and then it's back in town.

I think we hear about them more often through the media and social media and our exposure, so it may seem like they're happening more often in the family. Annihilation is when a man usually kills his wife, his children, and then himself. one act we have about 10 to 20 of those per year Family annihilations are unfortunately always something that has happened in history. Family annihilators are typically male, they're a little older, 40, maybe 50, elementary school age kids, they tend to have a history of domestic violence. Violence and suicidality are suicides as well as homicides, but they are these kind of angry suicides where I'm not just going to kill myself, I'm going to make sure my wife and kids come with me so they don't do it. come to exist without me, so I think there's a level of control that comes with committing that kind of violence in Dana Blankenhorn asked why Jeffrey Dmer ate people.

He was a serial killer who, after killing someone, would take apart their body parts. They were found in the freezer in various states of decomposition and she later admitted to eating the bodies from him. Jeffrey Dmer has been asked about this on a few different occasions and I think there is a theory that it is really about complete dominance and control over your victims. You can't be more dominant about something than consuming it, so lately there have been some reports saying that maybe it was more about connecting with the victims that he felt very alone about and consuming his victims allowed him to be a part of that. those victims in ml tanova ask if ted bundy was killing in this generation he wouldn't go too far.

They all have phones with emergency functions. Drones and satellites can track it. The cars are trackable. Today's forensic and DNA analysis is incredible. Etc., serial killings really peaked. In the '70s, '80s, and early '90s, we saw this massive decline where there are now very few serial killers today, that's because of advances in all kinds of

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nology, primarily DNA, and we also just change our behavior, not many people do. These days you go hitchhiking and get into strangers' cars and if you did you would probably text someone to tell them you were there so I agree Ted Bundy wouldn't get away with Serial murders these days in Metal.

Dad asks who else thinks about the missing hikers. It is not just a series of unfortunate accidents, most of those cases are people falling or there are accidents but several people do not recover and in fact there are several serial killers of murders that took place while someone was walking. Think about the murder of Gabby Petito, who was murdered by her fiancé Brian Laundry when they were out hiking and this makes me think of this theory of crime which is called routine activities and it's where you have a motivated criminal, a suitable target and then a foul capacity.

Guardianship and therefore hiking is the perfect example of a complete lack of guardianship, there is no one around for Miles, there are no cameras, many times there is no cell coverage, you can easily dispose of a body, you can make it appear one to, those are all the Questions for today. Those were some great

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