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Stochastic modeling of a serial killer. [PDF]
J Theor Biol, 2014 We analyze the time pattern of the activity of a serial killer, who during twelve years had murdered 53 people. The plot of the cumulative number of murders as a function of time is of "Devil's staircase" type. The distribution of the intervals between murders (step length) follows a power law with the exponent of 1.4.
Simkin MV, Roychowdhury VP.
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Returning to the Scene: Seriality and the Serial Killer
Open Screens, 2020 This article reads the perennial popularity of true crime products as symptomatic of repression and cultural trauma. Providing a close-reading of gender representation in the popular Netflix series Mindhunter, the author meditates on the postmodern ...
Katie Jones
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Searching for a serial killer on a hospital ward
Forensic Science InternationalThe recent case of Lucy Letby in the UK shows that exposing a serial killer in healthcare is challenging. Statistical evidence has been used in the courts, but the overturning of the life sentence of a Dutch nurse in 2008 due to inadequate data analysis suggests the need for objective statistical approaches.
Anssi Auvinen
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Micro Disasters: The Case of Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer [PDF]
Academic Forensic Pathology, 2017 Jeffrey M Jéntzen
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Reading Serial Killer Fanfiction: What’s Fannish about It?
Humanities, 2022 We have come to a point where the field of fan studies must acknowledge darker, more pathologized and potentially more sinister forms of fandom than we have heretofore.
Judith Fathallah
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ANALYSIS OF THE USEFULNESS OF VIDEO MONITORING RECORDS FOR THE PURPOSES OF IDENTIFYING THE PERPETRATORS OF HOMICIDES [PDF]
Probacja, 2021 The article presents content related to the assessment of the usefulness of video monitoring for the identification of perpetrators of homicides as well as qualifying it as an important element of crime prevention.
Erwin Ryter
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Statistical Issues in Serial Killer Nurse Cases
Laws, 2022 We study statistical aspects of the case of the British nurse Ben Geen, convicted of 2 counts of murder and 15 of grievous bodily harm following events at Horton General Hospital (in the town of Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK) during December 2013–February ...
Richard D. Gill +2 more
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The Portrayal of Serial Killers in Thomas Harris’ Novel Read Dragon
مجلة الآداب, 2023 This study aims to deeply analyze the character of serial killers in Thomas Harris’ novels and focuses on his novel Red Dragon. The Study searches in these complex and deep characters through the use of Erich Fromm's concepts about the destructive ...
Omar Sallal
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Serial Murder, Serial Consummerism: Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho (1991)
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2002 Bret Easton Ellis is a representative blank fiction writer whose novels deal with violence, indulgence, sexual excess, decadence, consumerism and commerce. In American Psycho (1991) he focuses on the phenomenon of the serial killer.
Sonia Baelo Allué
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DEXTER E O SERIAL KILLER QUE CONSOME SERIAL: Uma representação de metaconsumo?
Revista Contracampo, 2009 A partir de uma instigante sugestão de Brian Jarvis de que é possível compreender a ação do consumidor contemporâneo como algo similar aos rituais de aniquilação do outro empreendidos por um serial killer, apresentamos, neste artigo, algumas ...
Danielle Brasiliense, Ana Enne
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