Therefore, it is safe to say that serial killers have dramatically decreased in the United States in the last 40 years. In the next decade, there were more than 250 active killers who accounted for between 120 and 180 deaths per year.ĪLSO READ | 'We Are All Made Of Stardust': How Stellar Elements Expand Into The Cosmos Why have serial killers dramatically declined in the United States?īy the 2010s, there were less than 50 known active killers. At that time, there were nearly 300 known active serial killers in the United States. In the 1970s, the number of serial killers peaked. The 1970s and 1980s were a high activity period for serial murderers. The numbers of serial killers in the United States from the 1900s to the 2010s (Photo: Northeastern University) High activity period for serial killers in the United States The Zodiac Killer is the pseudonym of an unidentified American serial killer who is believed to have killed at least five people in North Carolina in the late 1960s. However, the chances of encountering serial killers like them, or another Zodiac Killer is extremely low now. People still talk about the stories of Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and the Boston Strangler, some of the most notorious serial killers to have ever lived. Watching movies and television shows on serial killers may make some people fearful of the possibility of these murderers lurking in the shadows, unbeknownst to the world. Shows like 'Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story', 'Mindhunter' and 'Dexter' and movies like 'Halloween', 'Scream', 'Dirty Harry', 'The Silence of the Lambs', 'The Black Phone', and 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' depict serial killers, their crimes, and the hunt for them. Stories of serial killers fascinate a lot of people, especially those interested in true crime.
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