Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

We assume people we know can't be serial killers.

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.