In 2005, the US FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit-2 held the Serial Murder Symposium, whereby serial killing was described as the same offender slaying a minimum of two victims unlawfully, in separate events. The FBI provided a serial killing definition in 1998 to include more than murders committed independently, and between them, there is a cooling-off period. It has also been defined as individuals who kill people serially (kill one person after another). Serial killers are individuals who kill more than three individuals. The first person to coin the ‘serial killer’ term was Robert Ressler from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). In 1957, Reinhardt created the ‘chain killers’ phrase and defined them as individuals who would murder people living behind a ‘chain’ of fatalities. Through the years, the serial killer definition has continued to evolve. A more recent serial killing case in the US is that of William Devin Howell, an accused serial killer who confessed to having killed seven victims in 2003 in Connecticut. It was confirmed that he murdered a minimum of twelve individuals in the 1990s comprising of children, women, and men, although he mentioned that he had killed over twenty-five people (Sharma 5). Holmes being one of the most popular and first in the US. In the United States, various cases of serial killings have been documented from the 1800s, with H. Another notable case of serial killing is Gilles de Rais, a French army’s leader, Joan of Arc’s companion-in-arms, and serial killer, famous for murdering a large group of people in 14th and 15th centuries (about 100 children). It involved someone from Rome known as Locusta, who gained popularity after poisoning Emperor Claudia, his son Britannicus, as well as the other six unspecified victims. The first ever-documented serial killer was reported in the first century CE. Furthermore, songs like The Ripper by Judas Priest, movies like The Perfume, and television shows like The Fall indicate a pervasive enthrallment with serial killers.Īlthough few people are killers, the world has a general fascination with serial killing. While documented acts of serial killing date back to at least the early Roman Empire, societal awareness of serial homicides escalated steadily since the 1960s, with press coverage of notorious cases such as Charles Manson, Albert DeSalvo, and Edward Gein.
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