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Mother's Day Edition-Stat O' The Day --One in six Serial Killers is Female.
Posted on 5/10/15 at 2:19 pm
Posted on 5/10/15 at 2:19 pm
We consulted mass media reports of demographics, motives, methods, mental health, and victim characteristics of 64 FSKs who committed their crimes in the US from 1821 to 2008. Consistent with other studies, our data showed that FSKs were typically White, educated, have been married, and held a caregiving role (e.g. mother, health care worker). Nearly 40% of FSKs in this sample experienced some form of mental illness. Their most common motive for murder was financial gain, and their most common method of killing was poisoning. FSKs knew all or most of their victims, and most were related to their victims. In all cases, FSKs targeted at least one victim who was a child, elderly, or infirm – those who had little chance of fighting back. LINK
Another reason never to marry a white women or purchase life insurance. Way too risky. Bitches crazy.
Another reason never to marry a white women or purchase life insurance. Way too risky. Bitches crazy.
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“She’s likely to be in her twenties or thirties, middle-class, probably married, probably Christian, probably average intelligence,” Harrison said. “I just described, you know, your next-door neighbor.” (Something similar is true of male serial killers, who tend to possess average intelligence and work blue-collar jobs. Very few are legally insane.) Altogether, the women on the list had killed at least three hundred and thirty-one people, an average of six victims each. More than half had murdered children, and a quarter had targeted the elderly and infirm.
This post was edited on 5/10/15 at 2:24 pm
Posted on 5/10/15 at 2:37 pm to Lsupimp
It's bc woman of other color aren't able to get away with it more than once.
Posted on 5/10/15 at 4:12 pm to Lsupimp
Another little known fact is that while the majority of serial killers are white when you adjust for population black people are actually more likely to be serial killers than whites
Posted on 5/10/15 at 4:16 pm to lsu480
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Another little known fact is that while the majority of serial killers are white when you adjust for population black people are actually more likely to be serial killers than whites
But it is still the white mans fault
Posted on 5/10/15 at 10:42 pm to Lsupimp
Very interesting topic but I can only access the description of the article. I'd be interested to hear the cases they included in the study.
I wonder if they included people like Mary Beth Tinning. 10 of her children died as infants or toddlers in the 1960s and 70. Doctors just concluded it was a tragic inherited condition why her all children kept dying of "crib death" But when a child she adopter died as well, then nurses and docs were incredibly suspicious.
But it was not till her 9th child was born and was killed that they arrested her. She was convicted of only ONE murder and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. LINK
ETA: Technically she may not be classified as a serial killer as she has only been convicted of one of the deaths. She has been denied parole 4 times. I think if she ever does get out, they will prosecute her for another death and keep her in jail.
I wonder if they included people like Mary Beth Tinning. 10 of her children died as infants or toddlers in the 1960s and 70. Doctors just concluded it was a tragic inherited condition why her all children kept dying of "crib death" But when a child she adopter died as well, then nurses and docs were incredibly suspicious.
But it was not till her 9th child was born and was killed that they arrested her. She was convicted of only ONE murder and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. LINK
ETA: Technically she may not be classified as a serial killer as she has only been convicted of one of the deaths. She has been denied parole 4 times. I think if she ever does get out, they will prosecute her for another death and keep her in jail.
This post was edited on 5/10/15 at 11:52 pm
Posted on 5/11/15 at 2:03 am to Lsupimp
I saw on mysteries at the museum about one who poisoned many people. Her motive: she liked going to funerals.
Posted on 5/11/15 at 5:19 am to lsu480
We are so used to crime statistics being skewed to blacks that we see serial killers as a predominantly white thing. Its crazy how different our perceptions would be if statistics actually followed population percentages. Especially in the south, people for get that only roughly 1 in 10 people are black. Only 10% of criminals should technically be black. Blame that on profiling or whatever, it's still a staggering disparity we currently have.
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