Theories about the crime rate shed some light on why there are fewer serial killers now than there were in the '70s and '80s, but there’s still no definitive answer as to why that time period was such a breeding ground for sadistic killers. But why were there so many serial killers in the '70s and '80s? What was it about that particular span of time that made mentally unstable people lean toward serial murder rather than a spree killing or domestic terrorism? Well-known serial killers from the 1970s and 1980s such as David Berkowitz, AKA the Son of Sam, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are just a few of the killers who made up the rich tapestry of serial murderers at the time, but what drove them to kill? And why aren’t people killing at the same rate now? There are many defining characteristics of the different decades that we have lived through and, for the '70s and '80s, serial killers were a large part of the narrative.
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