serial killers

1. Over 90% are white males
   
2. Tend to be intelligent, IQs in the "bright-normal" range
   
3. Do poorly in school and hold menial jobs
   
4. Markedly unstable families
   
5. Families have criminal, psychiatric, and/or alcoholic histories
   
6. Hate one or both parents
   
7. Abused as children
   
8. Records of early psychiatric problems
   
9. High rate of suicide attempts
   
10. Interested in pornography

• Theodore Bundy
  Suspect in 36 murders. Executed in 1989 for killing two women and a girl.

• John Wayne Gacy
  Suspect in 33 murders. Executed in 1994. Dressed as a clown, buried the victims in his basement after torturing them. Victims killed between 1972 and 1978.

• Patrick Wayne Kearney
  Suspect in 32 murders, convicted for 21. Dismembered victims, left remains in trash bags along highway.

• Juan Corona
  Convicted for 25 murders. Killed Mexican farm workers, sentenced to life with no parole.

• Wayne Williams
  Suspect in 24 murders. Convicted for killing two kids in 1982. Serving two consecutive life sentences. Dumped the bodies of his victims, mostly black children, in a river.

• Jeffrey Dahmer
  Confessed to 17 murders, convicted for 15. Infamous for drugging, torturing, killing and then eating his victims. Most victims were gay or black males. Killed in prison by fellow inmate while serving a life sentence.

All of these killers were very good at charming their victims.