Papaerchase emails:
In his book Dark Dreams former FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood says that the the most likely explaination is one of socioeconomic class and cultural influences. Serial killers are typically men who engage in ritualistic sexual behavior. (Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, the Green River, and BTK killers) The opportunity to develop the deviant fantasies seems to be linked to middle class and higher status. As more African Americans and hispanics move into the middle class, more serial killers from these groups are emerging. (see pp. 94-98 for this discussion). By the way, most of the information on such offenders is antidotal because they are quite rare. At one point in the 1980s the FBI thought there might be 30 operating in the USA at any given time. (not counting those in jail) That would be perhaps slightly more than one per 500,000 males.
Interestingly when it comes to ritualistic sexual offenses there are far more serial rapists out there then serial killers.
It just a problem of race and numbers.
My country only serial killer is black. And a very good painter.
The Monster of Los Andes,the most prolific serial killer ever, Andres Garabito is hispanic and killed 350 children in three countries. So was Ricky Ramirez. The Atlanta childen murder was black. FBI profilers helped catch a black serial killers in South Africa. The most prolifc females serial killers, were two mexican women who killed almost 90 persons, mostly prostitutes and about a dozen of johns. Serial killers are rare. In a country of 300 M persons they might be less than 50 active serial killers. If most people is white, then the serial killers are likely to be white too. Another question is why in the US are so few female contract killers? They only appear in movies. The profiles of them, more common south of the border, are very similar and in the same time very different to those of sex workers.