The Assassin and the Serial Killer

Manson is in some ways kind of at the, the crux of various of these. These types of figures but you know the first would sort of be the figure of the assassin. And then we get figures like who you've discussed recently like John Hinckley Jr. and Mark David Chapman,. You know, in a way kind of bringing the, the cycle of assassinations to a close. The next kind of figure in the sequences I would see it as the serial killer; there's been obviously a huge resurgence of interest in the serial killer now because he no longer exists as a as an element of the news cycle. So that seems to feed directly back into the broader psychological operation