Serial Killers
... It was also an incredible decade for shock, fear and serial killers. ... With the combination of a very powerful media and a society fascinated with gruesome, sadistic crimes, modern serial killers have been put in the spotlight. We are enraptured with serial killers so much, that we pay seven dollars to go see a movie where everyone except the bad guys gets strangled, mutilated, or shot- and enjoy it in some sick way. ... We support killers like Charles Manson on Death Row with our tax dollars. ... Serial killers are becoming as popular as rock stars. Serial killers are a development of the industrial world; they really didnt "come about" until the late eighteen-hundreds when society was becoming modernized and the threat of the new age sort of displaced some individuals so much they felt they had to kill to get their point across to society. Jack the Ripper is probably the most notorious killer in history because he established the serial killer profile.