Are there are any on BE???

EHow give us 6 tips to weed them out...

1

Realize that serial killers tend to be white males with higher than normal IQs. Most of them do poorly in school despite having IQs that usually average between 105 and 120, and some drop out of high school or college. Serial killers also hop from one low wage job to another, or tend to be habitually unemployed.
2

Be wary of "stalkers" or easily obsessed males. Since serial killers usually have trouble attracting women, starting relationships or maintaining the relationship they have, they can easily become too attentive to a female they like to the point of harassment or stalking. They can easily turn violent if a female rebukes their advances.
3

Spot a serial killer by their family background. They have alcoholic, weak-willed, or missing fathers and domineering mothers. Parents or other family members often have criminal backgrounds or mental problems.
4

Consider the fact that many serial killers have been abused as children. The abuse can be physical, sexual, emotional, verbal or a combination of all of these. They may have a history of being bullied or teased by other children in grade school or junior high. Some serial killers torture animals, and this trait often begins in childhood.
5

Note that serial killers have an interest in sado-masochistic and fetish pornography. Most serial killers gravitate to extreme forms of torture pornography from a young age, and may have extensive collections of it in their home or workplace.
6

Remember that serial killers look normal, or even geeky. They don't look or act like monsters in every day life. They might actually be polite and soft-spoken. It's their personalities and habits that give them away, not their looks.

So who on BE is a Serial Killer

How long have you got?

5 & 6 is defo BS, for sure.

My list is growing by the minute

**** Off! I don't keep any of my S&M porn at work!

6 does remind me of you a little and you did have a green radio on a lanyard stuck in your ear for days does that count as a little nerdy and you were trying to blend into a crowd

OMG do you mean I spent most of my weekend with a possible serial killer....and survived to tell the tale? Wonder if I could sell my story to the papers?

Did he display any ritualistic behaviour?

Plenty, but more related to cricketing rituals than to any murderous tendencies....I think......

Was he playing particular attention to a certain person as he could have been stalking them and plotting his next murder

Well he did keep that seat for me a couple of times.......Murder of a Moderator, surely he wouldn't dare, specially when she's a witch into the bargain...

Lulling you into a false sense of security...keeping the seat definitely setting a pattern.

I don't think any of those 'types' apply to Shipman though. He really is the smartest of them all.

Do a little bit of 1.2.3 not apply as he had a high IQ I think but can't swear to it and his wife was a bit fuddy duddy, there was some stuff about his mother?