Why are most serial killers white men?

Don't bother posting just to say there was this black serial killer or that Latino.

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by Anonymousreply 60December 25, 2021 7:00 AM

It's a similar proportion to school shooters. Why are white men so angry, and why do they have to take it out on other people?

I am angry, but I don't get violent.

by Anonymousreply 1August 17, 2021 1:35 PM

Perhaps white men DON'T make up the biggest proportion of serial killers. Maybe they just happen to get caught more than serial killers of other races. Did you ever think about that? No? Of course not! I'll continue later, I'm hungry.....

by Anonymousreply 2August 17, 2021 1:38 PM

That's not true. Just most of the famous serial killers are white.

by Anonymousreply 3August 17, 2021 1:38 PM

Isn't it obvious? White privilege.

by Anonymousreply 4August 17, 2021 1:39 PM

First, there are numerous serial killers who are women. It says something about how we perceive serial killers that the nurse who has offed 12 patients isn't considered a serial killer by many. Also, I think what the OP means is "Why are mist serial killers *in the USA* white men?" Obviously, this would not be true in Korea, Honduras, or Nigeria.

by Anonymousreply 5August 17, 2021 1:40 PM

More specifically, why are almost all high-profile cases of men who kill their wives and/or kids middle-class white men? the type you'd never believe would be capable of doing such a thing. Nearly.every.time.

I had a black female friend who harrumphed at the story of Scott Peterson and the others like him. 'You don't see black men killing their women and running around acting like they didn't do it, like that dude. They can't be bothered - they just leave and start another family someplace else, easy peasy.' She thought it was nuts.

by Anonymousreply 6August 17, 2021 1:50 PM

Why are other sexes and races so poor at serial killing? Up your game Asian women!

by Anonymousreply 7August 17, 2021 1:55 PM

Because there are more white men in the US than men of other colors?

by Anonymousreply 8August 17, 2021 1:55 PM

White men have more arrogance and confidence because that's how society is set up. As women or Black people become more equal, I would expect to see more multiple killers from them for example. Joanna Dennehy for example is extremely rare as a serial killer but it's hard to imagine someone like her operating in the 1960s or 70s.

by Anonymousreply 10August 17, 2021 1:59 PM

R6, you mean family annihilators? Definitely a middle-class white male thing. But black men do kill their children and wives/girlfriends. Usually it’s the result of domestic violence and not exactly premeditated.

by Anonymousreply 11August 17, 2021 2:05 PM

There are many black and Hispanic serial killers, OP. Even Asians.

Why don't you want them to get the attention and appreciation you obviously want to give whites?

Racist.

And race-baiter.

by Anonymousreply 12August 17, 2021 2:09 PM

The majority of the population is white and serial killers are rare.

by Anonymousreply 13August 17, 2021 2:10 PM

How many murders makes a serial killer? 4? 5?

by Anonymousreply 14August 17, 2021 2:15 PM

I think there are some serial killers in the medical community who fly under the radar. There is a nurse in England, Lucy Letby, who is accused of being responsible for the deaths of 8 babies and attempts at 10 others. She’s a pretty young blonde woman. She goes on trial next year.

Those are the scariest kind, by far.

by Anonymousreply 15August 17, 2021 2:16 PM

White men are so fragile! Be very careful with their toxic masculinity.

by Anonymousreply 16August 17, 2021 2:18 PM

Why do only white women's disappearances make the news? There are plenty of serial killers for everyone

by Anonymousreply 17August 17, 2021 2:19 PM

Most people in America are white.

Black victims are ignored, so their killers, usually black as well, aren’t frequently apprehended. It happens but its rare.

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by Anonymousreply 18August 17, 2021 2:19 PM

R15, yeah, women tend to do poisoning, more subtle stuff like that. But there are still at least just as many male nurses or doctors like Harold Shipman, Colin Norris, Victorino Chua who have killed multiple patients so it doesn't seem to make up the difference.

by Anonymousreply 19August 17, 2021 2:21 PM

Serial killers are masterminds who have to be smart to be able to avoid identification after each murder.

by Anonymousreply 20August 17, 2021 2:27 PM

Myths about serial killers

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by Anonymousreply 21August 17, 2021 2:29 PM

R20, not really, though. See "the Grim Sleeper". He killed people no one would miss, crack whores at the height of the LA epidemic, which may have just been because those were his neighbors.

by Anonymousreply 22August 17, 2021 2:32 PM

R21, that doesn't debunk it at all! Most killers ARE white men. That link says that 92.5% of killers are men and that 56.9% are White. Ergo OP is correct.

by Anonymousreply 23August 17, 2021 2:32 PM

There's a straight white male Millennial at my job who tried desperately to overthrow the director and get other high ranking positions and it has become finally clear to everyone (including probably himself) that at the top he is perceived as a stupid poser. I'm now worried as we return to inperson work that he's going to go postal and kill us all.

Entitled, talentless, with no work ethic and no personal insight.

by Anonymousreply 24August 17, 2021 2:32 PM

I guess you can say the answer is a simple numbers game. But I also think that serial killers tend to be white men, because to be a serial killer you really need to be able to blend into the background or put your victim at ease before you do your serial killing stuff. White guys are just easier at blending into the background. And we've seen those hidden camera things on 20/20, people will stop to help a white guy, but will drive past a black guy. And if you're a good looking white guy, hell, you can literally get away with murder. No one ever suspects a hot white guy of having bodies in his trunk.

by Anonymousreply 25August 17, 2021 2:36 PM

[quote]Most people in America are white.

Bingo! There are more white serial killers because most people here ARE WHITE.

by Anonymousreply 26August 17, 2021 2:52 PM

They're not. Argentina, Colombia, China, India, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Spain and Brazil have had a ton of serial killers, almost none of them white.

There are a lot of white male serial killers in a bunch of countries, but they don't have a monopoly on psychopathy.

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by Anonymousreply 28August 17, 2021 2:58 PM

[quote] That link says that 92.5% of killers are men and that 56.9% are White.

Re their race, that sounds about right, given that whites are about 60.1% of the population (last week's big take from the latest census), and that's today, after it's been decreasing over the decades. Sounds like, among those apprehended, whites are underrepresented.

by Anonymousreply 29August 17, 2021 2:58 PM

R29, I think Argentines are generally white. Italian, German, etc.

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by Anonymousreply 30August 17, 2021 2:59 PM

How about GAY serial killers? Are they usually white?

by Anonymousreply 31August 17, 2021 3:00 PM

I think OP is trolling. He knows that whites make a smaller proportion of serial killers, cf. their proportion of the population.

We get it, OP.

by Anonymousreply 32August 17, 2021 3:00 PM

OP the psychopathic responses (narcissism, entitlement) answer your question:

[quote] Serial killers are masterminds who have to be smart to be able to avoid identification after each murder.

Um hm nonwhites commit crimes because they are inferior to whites and white males go on killing sprees because they are superior.

[quote] Re their race, that sounds about right, given that whites are about 60.1% of the population (last week's big take from the latest census), and that's today, after it's been decreasing over the decades. Sounds like, among those apprehended, whites are underrepresented.

White males are 25% of the population.

by Anonymousreply 33August 17, 2021 3:08 PM

R33, control for the "male" part. Controlling for gender, whites are underrepresented among apprehended serial killers.

And everyone knows the vast majority of serial killers are male, so that's not the interesting part.

by Anonymousreply 34August 17, 2021 3:11 PM

R32, I dunno. You assume OP is not an idiot.

by Anonymousreply 35August 17, 2021 3:11 PM

If you're talking about the U.S., it's because most men are white.

But who tracks serial killers in Africa or India or South America? Do they get their own documentary or non-fiction book or podcast?

by Anonymousreply 36August 17, 2021 3:14 PM

[quote]First, there are numerous serial killers who are women. It says something about how we perceive serial killers that the nurse who has offed 12 patients isn't considered a serial killer by many. Also, I think what the OP means is "Why are mist serial killers *in the USA* white men?"

Lethal injection by a deranged healthcare worker, while deadly, isn't the same as a psycho dismembering victims who were previously unknown to them.

The questions should be "why are most violent American serial killers white men?"

[quote]It's a similar proportion to school shooters in the U.S.

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by Anonymousreply 37August 17, 2021 3:16 PM

Most serial killers are MALE. In the USA they are primarily WHITE.

Yeah. Got it.

by Anonymousreply 38August 17, 2021 3:17 PM

R36, you might want to read the THREAD before posting such wisdom.

by Anonymousreply 39August 17, 2021 3:19 PM

It fits that belief in supremacy. Feeling you are above others allows you to treat them as toys or animals to be used and discarded.

Throw around enough myths about scary foreigners/people of color and you have cover to kill whomever you catch. At least a few times.

by Anonymousreply 40August 17, 2021 3:40 PM

Actually the serial killer in the US with the most murders is a black man.

by Anonymousreply 41August 17, 2021 5:03 PM

But the serial killer has grown outdated today and now we have mass shooters who are again, predominately white male.

But that’s the crazy thing about white men. Everyone else is considered beneath them and when you think of serial killers, mass shooters, pedos, necrophiliacs, people who eat puke and shit as a fetish, you think of a white man.

by Anonymousreply 42October 12, 2021 7:02 AM

Serial killers and spree killers are different animals. The police work and tech today makes it harder for serial killers to kill more than a couple of people before they are caught. In the past, usually the killer had at least one prior close call on being found out (e.g., Dahmer stopped for broken tail light with body in trunk, Green River Killer listed as possible suspect and questioned but didn't fit profile) but managed to remain undetected. Sometimes the cops catch them by accident (Cody Legebokoff). But mostly it's solid investigative tech.

by Anonymousreply 43October 12, 2021 7:34 AM

Because they are the apex predators of the entire world. Maybe that’s why.

by Anonymousreply 44October 12, 2021 7:48 AM

Why are most serial killers men?

by Anonymousreply 45October 12, 2021 7:49 AM

Does anyone have any idea about the HONOLULU STRANGLER case and if they ever caught the guy? These 5 murders happened in Hawaii in the mid-80s.

by Anonymousreply 46December 23, 2021 3:15 AM

[quote]Why are most serial killers white men?

White men have the persistence and focus to get the job done right. Other ethnic groups are either so lazy they just take out the people around them until they're arrested or "whatever" (Hey, I don't work in law enforcement or Justice.) or they act out of psych. disorders that leaves them sloppy and disordered.

White individual males are simply apex predators. The Chinese are the alternative - apex hive predators finally coming out of the hills, like COVID.

by Anonymousreply 47December 23, 2021 3:35 AM

That's a common myth, OP, but according to Scientific American it's not true:

[quote] Myth #2: All Serial Killers Are Caucasian.

[quote]Reality: Contrary to popular mythology, not all serial killers are white. Serial killers span all racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. The racial diversity of serial killers generally mirrors that of the overall U.S. population. There are well documented cases of African-American, Latino and Asian-American serial killers. [bold]African-Americans comprise the largest racial minority group among serial killers, representing approximately 20 percent of the total.[/bold] Significantly, however, only white, and normally male, serial killers such as Ted Bundy become popular culture icons.

Keep in mind that only [bold]14.2%[/bold] of the US population if African-American. So that means African Americans are significantly over-represented among serial killers.

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by Anonymousreply 48December 23, 2021 5:31 AM

The Grim Sleeper is African-American. I remember seeing a documentary on TV, but forgot what the name of the series it was on.

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by Anonymousreply 49December 23, 2021 6:25 AM

[dquote]Why are most serial killers white men?

There are more white men in the US than BIPOC men. Whites are represented more in most things.

by Anonymousreply 50December 23, 2021 6:30 AM

Oh duh, the Wiki page specifies the TV episode.

by Anonymousreply 51December 23, 2021 11:55 AM

[quote] Lethal injection by a deranged healthcare worker, while deadly, isn't the same as a psycho dismembering victims who were previously unknown to them.

The end result is absolutely the same: their victims wind up [bold]dead.[/bold]

They are equal in the eyes of the law.

by Anonymousreply 52December 25, 2021 1:34 AM

Because they are smarter and more cunning op you race baiting asshole

by Anonymousreply 53December 25, 2021 1:58 AM

Hardly anyone notices or cares when minority women on the fringes of society disappear. So the point is moot.

by Anonymousreply 55December 25, 2021 2:48 AM

Because they're Republicans.

by Anonymousreply 56December 25, 2021 2:57 AM

More interesting data: only 10% of total murders are committed by women. Fact.

by Anonymousreply 57December 25, 2021 3:33 AM

We demand equality for POCs! More black serial killers.

by Anonymousreply 58December 25, 2021 3:45 AM

theory: if they were black or hispanic, their anti-social behavior would be identified and prosecuted faster. another theory: the white midwestern serial killers might have grown up in suburban or rural settings, where there was more space for horrific child abuse to go unnoticed.

by Anonymousreply 59December 25, 2021 4:56 AM

Less community, more loners, more craziness.

by Anonymousreply 60December 25, 2021 7:00 AM

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