• velma@sh.itjust.works
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    28 days ago

    Quite a few serial killers had wives and families. I’m listening to a deep dive about the Green River Killer and even he was able to pull ladies frequently.

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      28 days ago

      Yeah, it’s certainly not the case for everyone, but damn is it so much more a common backstory than anything else.

      The shift in the 1970s from “they were born a monster” to “what made them a monster?” is honestly embarrassingly late on our anthropologic timeline.

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        28 days ago

        Interestingly enough, lead exposure may have played more of a role than previously thought as well.