The fact that Shawcross was released from jail after killing two children, then went on to murder a bunch of people tells me the judge didn't care about those children's lives and set free a monster. I say the judge should be held accountable for each murder subsequent after Shawcross' release.
DNA and cameras are everywhere. That's how the man who hit my daughter was caught. His truck and license plate were caught on camera and he was arrested that afternoon.
Here in the US, there isn't any fear of talking about serial killers. Legally no one can stop the news from covering killings. Reporters, in fact, like covering infamous cases because it could be great for their careers. Sure no one wants to give "fame" to a killer, but it is well known that these crimes make many people famous. Remember the expression: If it bleeds, it leads. This means that the more blood and gore means it becomes a top story.
I grew up in the 80s and it seemed like there were serial killers everywhere. It does also seem like you don’t hear about them today. That said, I watched a video a while back where some expert predicted that there would be upcoming a new era of serial killers
Kabir, in some states in the US, life means, maybe 40 years. Sometimes judges will give a high high number so there's actually no chance they make it out.
It has to do with the way the laws are written in certain states. A term of "Life" does NOT mean the same thing in EVERY state. In one state, it might mean "Natural Life" without parole. In another State, it could mean eligible for parole after 20 years. In a third state, it could mean eligible for parole after serving 1/2 of the sentence. Setting a very high number of years, or giving several sentences to be served "consecutively" insures that a criminal will NEVER be released in THAT particular state.
When I was a child my family lived across the street from Robert Hansen, the "Butcher/Baker" serial killer in Anchorage, Alaska. He abducted, raped and killed 17 women between 1972 and 1983. He was finally caught when Cindy Paulson was able to escape from the basement of his home and the police got involved. He is suspected of as many as 30 total murders and over 50 sexual assaults but only 18 murders were proven. (The latest being solved last year.)
You should watch the interview with Arthur Shawcross. When they ask how he would feel if someone did this to his own daughter, you can truly see that he has no conscience or ability to feel. It’s terrifying.
The working theory is that it’s a mutation of specific genes in combination with the perfect caldron of environmental factors. Both those criteria have to be met to get the psychopaths and career criminals you see and hear about.
I personally think the serial killer thing is less now because of cameras being everywhere & DNA progress. Back then, it was very much harder to catch them. 😕 🤷♀️
Serial killing like the 70s and 80s was a crime trend that has declined a lot. Its moved on to mass shootings as the crime trend of the time. Also, its too easy to be caught with technology.
10:10 yes, the peak of serial killing was in the 70s and 80s. a lot of this is due to changes in our collective behavior (like people deciding not to hitchhike anymore, going out in groups instead of alone, etc.)
10:14 I feel like that’s true, especially after the Bondi Massacre, there were a bunch of similar attacks in the weeks afterward, even one on the same day.
Every time I turn around I'm hearing about an SK I've never heard of. There are many out there who have yet to be caught. I actually think the numbers are growing, so much so that many don't receive national attention here in the USA.
6:45 The reason they don't just give people life in prison is because all life sentences are automatically commuted. So while his 200 year sentence will be commuted it will still likely be 50 years which means he'll die in prison.
I think they are caught sooner now due to all the breakthroughs in forensics. They say there are 25 to 50 active serial killers at any given time in the U.S. alone currently…
As per the Jeffery Dahmer show on Netflix, I don't think any families have been ordered to watch it. They're under no obligation; they can watch it if they choose.
Legally, a life sentence and 250 years may not the same in most cases. Sure 250 years is a life sentence because no one is going to live 250 years, but legally there may be legal reasons for the difference. Sometimes it is much harder to get out of prison with a 250 year sentence. Normally, people with long sentences committed many different violent crimes and each crime receives its own prion sentence. Think 24 years for charge one and 56 years for charge two etc. To get all 250 years thrown out completely due to errors, the judge would need to find an error with each criminal charge. To overturn one life sentence judge could be overturned if there is only one error in that one charge.
No, nobody is like that because of material they're exposed to, and if that sort of material did cause them to lean in that direction, they were predisposed to lean that way anyway. Plenty of people are exposed to the same things and don't become serial killers. It's genetic.
@MichaelB769 not necessarily true their are serial killers who have been raised as killers from family members. If you're parents are killing people and teaching you things about it and it becomes a normalized way of life children can easily take on those behaviors that they never would have otherwise
They are so arrogant and believe they are smarter than the police. I don't think that there should be movies about serial killers. It just glorifies their crimes! They should be forgotten. The families have to relive the pain these killers causesd
I agree the Dahmer thing was disturbing but I thought it was well made and drew attention to important issues such as the institutionalised racism and homophobia that allowed him to get away with it for so long - the focus on the victims was important too and they gave them voice instead of making it about Dahmer - I didn’t know any of the victims names before watching the show
Back in the 70s, my brother and a couple of friends were hitchhiking after delivering their newspapers for the day. The guy that picked them up, started asking them if they wanted to do certain "things". When they realized what he wanted they told him no and asked him to let them out. He didn't want to at first. Luckily, there were three of them and after threats he finally pulled over and let them out. It turns out it was the infamous Ted Bundy. My brother was 14 at the time. I stopped going out at night alone after that happened.
When I lived in Dallas, this guy un-alived several gals and took their eyeballs with surgical precision. He grew up with a mother who practiced taxidermy of birds but was too cheap to buy plastic eyeballs so she used sewing button in place of eyes. This supposedly fueled his unusual obsession with eyes. Even in jail he hangs drawings of eyeballs in his cell.
I was a teenager during that whole Jeffrey Dahmer era we all lived in fear and its too soon to have made thst Netflix special and also the Atlanta child murders i was a kid and even though it was only happening in Atlanta it had us all in fear back then
The death penalty doesn't mean anything if you don't use it. I'm not advocating one side of the argument or the other. I'm just saying it shows yet more phoniness from California.
The fact that Shawcross was released from jail after killing two children, then went on to murder a bunch of people tells me the judge didn't care about those children's lives and set free a monster. I say the judge should be held accountable for each murder subsequent after Shawcross' release.
DNA and cameras are everywhere. That's how the man who hit my daughter was caught. His truck and license plate were caught on camera and he was arrested that afternoon.
Here in the US, there isn't any fear of talking about serial killers. Legally no one can stop the news from covering killings. Reporters, in fact, like covering infamous cases because it could be great for their careers. Sure no one wants to give "fame" to a killer, but it is well known that these crimes make many people famous. Remember the expression: If it bleeds, it leads. This means that the more blood and gore means it becomes a top story.
Look into Ed Kemper he has been interviewed and it is very interesting.
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I grew up in the 80s and it seemed like there were serial killers everywhere. It does also seem like you don’t hear about them today. That said, I watched a video a while back where some expert predicted that there would be upcoming a new era of serial killers
Kabir, in some states in the US, life means, maybe 40 years. Sometimes judges will give a high high number so there's actually no chance they make it out.
It has to do with the way the laws are written in certain states. A term of "Life" does NOT mean the same thing in EVERY state. In one state, it might mean "Natural Life" without parole. In another State, it could mean eligible for parole after 20 years. In a third state, it could mean eligible for parole after serving 1/2 of the sentence. Setting a very high number of years, or giving several sentences to be served "consecutively" insures that a criminal will NEVER be released in THAT particular state.
When I was a child my family lived across the street from Robert Hansen, the "Butcher/Baker" serial killer in Anchorage, Alaska. He abducted, raped and killed 17 women between 1972 and 1983. He was finally caught when Cindy Paulson was able to escape from the basement of his home and the police got involved. He is suspected of as many as 30 total murders and over 50 sexual assaults but only 18 murders were proven. (The latest being solved last year.)
You should watch the interview with Arthur Shawcross. When they ask how he would feel if someone did this to his own daughter, you can truly see that he has no conscience or ability to feel. It’s terrifying.
The working theory is that it’s a mutation of specific genes in combination with the perfect caldron of environmental factors. Both those criteria have to be met to get the psychopaths and career criminals you see and hear about.
I personally think the serial killer thing is less now because of cameras being everywhere & DNA progress. Back then, it was very much harder to catch them. 😕 🤷♀️
Also, police departments tend to be more cooperative with one another. .
Serial killing like the 70s and 80s was a crime trend that has declined a lot. Its moved on to mass shootings as the crime trend of the time. Also, its too easy to be caught with technology.
10:10 yes, the peak of serial killing was in the 70s and 80s. a lot of this is due to changes in our collective behavior (like people deciding not to hitchhike anymore, going out in groups instead of alone, etc.)
Also DNA evidence became a thing in the 80s. The first case to use DNA evidence was in 1987.
I think that there are more serial killers out there that we know about and that scares me
10:14 I feel like that’s true, especially after the Bondi Massacre, there were a bunch of similar attacks in the weeks afterward, even one on the same day.
Jeez England, I thought most of the worst serial killers were in America...
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Always love these types of videos. Freaking crazy people thinking they are smarter than everyone
Every time I turn around I'm hearing about an SK I've never heard of. There are many out there who have yet to be caught. I actually think the numbers are growing, so much so that many don't receive national attention here in the USA.
I believe it's both. You can be born that way, or due to a terrible childhood or other Enviromental conditions.
6:45 The reason they don't just give people life in prison is because all life sentences are automatically commuted. So while his 200 year sentence will be commuted it will still likely be 50 years which means he'll die in prison.
One detail that this video doesn't mention is that Bundy escaped not once but TWICE from prison
I think they are caught sooner now due to all the breakthroughs in forensics. They say there are 25 to 50 active serial killers at any given time in the U.S. alone currently…
I think they are caught sooner
As per the Jeffery Dahmer show on Netflix, I don't think any families have been ordered to watch it. They're under no obligation; they can watch it if they choose.
right, what a bunch of crybabies. literally nothing in the show disrespected the victims. by their logic war movies cant be made
Legally, a life sentence and 250 years may not the same in most cases. Sure 250 years is a life sentence because no one is going to live 250 years, but legally there may be legal reasons for the difference. Sometimes it is much harder to get out of prison with a 250 year sentence. Normally, people with long sentences committed many different violent crimes and each crime receives its own prion sentence. Think 24 years for charge one and 56 years for charge two etc. To get all 250 years thrown out completely due to errors, the judge would need to find an error with each criminal charge. To overturn one life sentence judge could be overturned if there is only one error in that one charge.
No, nobody is like that because of material they're exposed to, and if that sort of material did cause them to lean in that direction, they were predisposed to lean that way anyway. Plenty of people are exposed to the same things and don't become serial killers. It's genetic.
Not 100% it's a mixture of nature and nurture. That's a proven fact
@@josiah1218 Not sure you know what fact means
@MichaelB769 not necessarily true their are serial killers who have been raised as killers from family members. If you're parents are killing people and teaching you things about it and it becomes a normalized way of life children can easily take on those behaviors that they never would have otherwise
@@nickhaas9185 Sure there are odd apples in every barrel but that's not true most of the time.
They are so arrogant and believe they are smarter than the police. I don't think that there should be movies about serial killers. It just glorifies their crimes! They should be forgotten. The families have to relive the pain these killers causesd
Option 3. The victims are listed as missing and not dead.
I agree the Dahmer thing was disturbing but I thought it was well made and drew attention to important issues such as the institutionalised racism and homophobia that allowed him to get away with it for so long - the focus on the victims was important too and they gave them voice instead of making it about Dahmer - I didn’t know any of the victims names before watching the show
Back in the 70s, my brother and a couple of friends were hitchhiking after delivering their newspapers for the day. The guy that picked them up, started asking them if they wanted to do certain "things". When they realized what he wanted they told him no and asked him to let them out. He didn't want to at first. Luckily, there were three of them and after threats he finally pulled over and let them out. It turns out it was the infamous Ted Bundy. My brother was 14 at the time. I stopped going out at night alone after that happened.
Great instincts and sticking together is a safety too. 😮
When I lived in Dallas, this guy un-alived several gals and took their eyeballs with surgical precision. He grew up with a mother who practiced taxidermy of birds but was too cheap to buy plastic eyeballs so she used sewing button in place of eyes. This supposedly fueled his unusual obsession with eyes. Even in jail he hangs drawings of eyeballs in his cell.
I was a teenager during that whole Jeffrey Dahmer era we all lived in fear and its too soon to have made thst Netflix special and also the Atlanta child murders i was a kid and even though it was only happening in Atlanta it had us all in fear back then
Noticed that most were caught because of traffic violations
Clarice killing Buffalo Bill 🤔 only in world of fiction
They don't have to watch it, for fk's sake!
The death penalty doesn't mean anything if you don't use it. I'm not advocating one side of the argument or the other. I'm just saying it shows yet more phoniness from California.
the 70s and 80s seemed to be really bad .