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What makes a serial killer?

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The History of Serial Killers

The term was coined in the mid-70s by Robert Ressler, former FBI director of Violent Criminal Apprehensions Program. The key hallmark of a serial killer is that they kill for the pleasure of killing. And their subcategories we'll get into within that, but yeah, totally right on the money there.

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