I think the more common trope is, "He was physically, mentally, and sexually abused by his mother and string of stepfathers... Oh! And yes, obviously social inteoversion and an inability to form relationships ensued among the many other things..."
Quite a few serial killers had wives and families. I’m listening to a deep dive about the Green River Killer and even he was able to pull ladies frequently.
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BucketBong@p.hobo.social · 17 pts · 35d
Obviously they didn't spend all their time alone at home.
pntha@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 35d
wow so I can’t even be a serial killer
BucketBong@p.hobo.social · 5 pts · 35d
You can, you just need to make your victims come to you and kill them home alone style.
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 35d
You're not supposed to use DoorDash like that.
BucketBong@p.hobo.social · 2 pts · 35d
You are if you're a cannibal.
saltesc@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 35d
I think the more common trope is, "He was physically, mentally, and sexually abused by his mother and string of stepfathers... Oh! And yes, obviously social inteoversion and an inability to form relationships ensued among the many other things..."
velma@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 35d
Quite a few serial killers had wives and families. I’m listening to a deep dive about the Green River Killer and even he was able to pull ladies frequently.
saltesc@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 35d
Yeah, it's certainly not the case for everyone, but damn is it so much more a common backstory than anything else.
The shift in the 1970s from "they were born a monster" to "what made them a monster?" is honestly embarrassingly late on our anthropologic timeline.
velma@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 35d
Interestingly enough, lead exposure may have played more of a role than previously thought as well.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
Yeah, afaik the formula is unpredictable reactions in authority figures plus abuse.
remon@ani.social · 13 pts · 35d
You must be watching the wrong documentaries, quite a lot of serial killers had a pretty normal family life.
Billy_fuccboi@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 35d
Killing people involves people, so nah
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 35d
True!
cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 34d
And then the bodies! Do you know how heavy a person is? Even if you chop them waaaaay up, it's still a lot of trips. Sounds like work.
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 34d
Chop them? That's old stuff, we grind them them now /joke
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 35d
Meanwhile John Wayne Gacy motherfuckers go by unnoticed because they're so extroverted.
velma@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 35d
Extroverted AND best buddies with the local cops!
Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 35d
Would you be surprised to find out there are people who are more uncomfortable and unlikable than serial killers?
Leviathan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d
Every actual documentary about serial killers: he was a pillar of the community, Deacon in his church, ate young boys on the weekend.
Evotech@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 35d
Almost like there’s allot of people like that