Black on Black crime has become so an idea of normal violence that some wonder how hard the police investigate. It’s more common for African-American serial killers to target victims in urban neighborhoods where the crime rate is higher to begin with. Sometimes it seems that African-American serial killers go undetected longer, or totally because of their choice of victims. I researched for hours, murderer after murderer, method after method until I was so disgusted I concluded my list was as complete as it could be for my own sanity. When I started my research on African-American serial killers I knew of about 10, as I researched I learned more that I had never heard of. In actuality, there are serial killers of all races and ethnicity and most are found competent to stand trial. There seems to be a widespread misconception that serial killers are all deranged or socially awkward white males. Former chief of the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit and author of “Mind Hunter, John Douglas says, “A very conservative estimate is that there are between 35 and 50 active serial killers in the United States” at any given time.”
They make a distinction that serial killing is not the same as mass murdering, nor is it spree killing, where murders are committed in two or more locations in a short time. describes serial killers as a person who murders three or more people usually with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant break between them.
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