[ SECRET POST #4685 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4685 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Someone who has killed 7 people is, by definition, a serial killer, whether you call them that or not.

[(Anonymous)]

Not "America's biggest serial killer."

[(Anonymous)]

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You said "I wouldn't really call him a serial killer myself" not "I wouldn't call him America's biggest serial killer".

[(Anonymous)]

The anon you're replying to is not the anon who listed serial killers with larger body counts and mused about definitions of 'serial killer'.
I know because I was the first anon, and not the second.
I did not intend to diminish his crimes in any way, nor to suggest that serial killers need a higher body count to qualify as such. It is simply that I think of serial killers as people who are driven specifically to kill by pathology, rather than... whatever was going on with Gosnell. Greed? Maybe?
I mean, is an assassin a serial killer?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Ah, ok. For some reason I wasn't thinking of it that way. Yeah, I think assassins technically count as serial killers, but don't really fit the stereotype of serial killers that most people think of.

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, no. There are criteria other than number of victims that go into determining whether or not someone can be considered a serial killer. Even if you believe murder is the correct classification for his actions, the fact that he was acting in a professional capacity excludes him from being designated as a serial killer.

[(Anonymous)]

[anon that ayrt replied to] Yes, exactly.

[(Anonymous)]

Reading a bit more about this particular case, I feel like it's more of a grey area, maybe more manslaughter than murder, but in general, the only requirement is "the unlawful killing of two or more victims by the same offender(s), in separate events". Even if someone (like the assassin example listed above) might not fit the stereotype that people think of, they're still technically a serial killer according to the FBI.

Source: https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/serial-murder#two

[(Anonymous)]

No, they really aren't. A proposed definition in the summation of a symposium does not constitute an applied definition.

[(Anonymous)]

Nayrt - in this case though, if you've ever bothered to research criminal profiling and the different proposed definitions of serial murder, you should know that it is. Other and perhaps more scientific and fact-based typologies, which look at crime scene variables and psychological motivation as classifying factors, rarely use the words "serial murder". Schlesinger used "compulsive murderer", for example. "Serial killer" is and remains a term used by the FBI around the 80s and applied most commonly according to the number of victims.

[(Anonymous)]

anon from above

Yep. Before the definition was basically the same, but with three or more people. Aside from the time period thing, it literally is only about the number of victims, at least for the FBI. Although, like you said, other organizations/groups might use different criteria.