A serial killer is a modern day celebrity. There are books, movies, series and documentaries made about them, we can even buy various souvenirs; Ted Bundy is just as known as any other Hollywood actor. Serial killers mask their normalcy pretty well, which is why it’s hard to track them. The ones that we do track and catch, we put to good use - giving them horrible and frightening nicknames to warn and scare the society in order to inform that this kind of deviancy will not be tolerated in any way. By doing that, we also mask their normalcy and the fact that they're average; it could be anyone! Their life stories and terrible crimes are the perfect subject for media production; the bloodier, the better and more sensationalist. Despite the crimes being heinous, they're fascinating to us and it makes us watch and try to figure out the ‘why’ behind it. People are made for figuring out and solving problematic issues in our society. It's the only way to finding a way to protect ourselves.
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