American Serial Killer Statistics By Country

List Of Serial Killers By Country

People call him the Killer Clown. While it’s true that John Wayne Gacy Jr. was both a killer and a clown, there’s no evidence that he murdered any of his 33 victims while wearing a clown costume. Gacy dressed up as his alter egos, Pogo and Patches, for parties, or sometimes to entertain children at nearby hospitals. “When he was creepy and going to kill you was when he was dressed normally,” says Rachael Penman, exhibits and events manager at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment. An exhibit at the museum displays the clown costumes alongside Gacy’s plain black leather jacket, juxtaposing the two sides of Gacy’s divided nature. “When he was good, he was the best of good,” wrote Gacy’s defense attorney, Sam Amirante, in an email, “but when he was bad he was the worst of evil.”

American Serial Killer Statistics By Country

As far as race is concerned, two-thirds of serial killers’ victims were white and African-Americans accounted for almost a quarter of all victims. In general, serial killers prefer younger victims. Your odds of being murdered by a serial killer dramatically decreases after the age of 30. Serial Killer Myth #6: They Are All White. Latino and Asian-American serial killers. According to Serial Killer Statistics published by Radford University/the Florida Gulf Coast University.

But even if Gacy never killed as Pogo, people still associate his murders with white makeup, a painted, pointed red mouth, and a frilly collar. As heinous as his crimes were, this one offbeat detail from his life propelled him to infamy. Because when it comes to serial killers, the myth is what matters.

Fbi Serial Killer Statistics

* * *

If you were to carefully calibrate your fear of being murdered according to statistics, you should be 12 times as afraid of your family members as of serial killers. Less than one percent of murders in any given year are committed by serial killers, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s report on serial murder; in 2012, 12.5 percent of murders were committed by victims’ family members.

Nikolai Dzhumagaliev

Fbi Statistics On Serial Killers

From:

Kazakhstan

Why You Don't Want to Meet Him:

Nikolai Dzhumagaliev is as close to a real life Hannibal Lecter as you can get. The main difference is that Dzhumagaliev has metal teeth.

Operating in 1980 in the former Soviet Union, Dzhumagaliev is one of the most prolific serial killer cannibals the country has ever seen. Affectionately called 'Metal Fang' for the set of white, metal teeth which had replaced his own chompers (making himself a sort of hybrid between Lecter and Jaws from Jaws from James Bond), Dzhumagaliev is said to have killed and eaten somewhere between 50 to 100 women... and even served a few portions to his unknowing friends.