Saturday, January 03, 2015
Some Thoughts on Serial Killers
I was just having some passing thoughts about serial killers recently.
Doesn’t everybody, now and then? So I
checked into Wikipedia to get a quick glance at what they had to say.
I found out that the FBI Crime Classification Manual (aren’t you glad
somebody is classifying these guys?) puts serial killers into three little
boxes: organized, disorganized and mixed.
That’s a little scary, because it got me to looking at my work space. Which label would fit me and am I headed down
a wrong career path?
Organized serial killers are, well, very organized. They maintain a high level of control over
the crime scene and know how to cover their tracks. Whew!
That lets me off the hook, since I always lost at “hide and seek” when I
was a kid. My tracks stood out a whole
bunch, I guess. I didn’t know it at the
time.
Disorganized serial killers are more impulsive, use whatever weapon is
handy and usually leave the you-know-what lying there. I guess they don’t like cleanup details. They also have lower IQs than their organized
counterparts.
Did you just convince yourself that you’d be “organized?” Go ahead, think
about it. It’s OK. Really.