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2024-05-14 15:58:41 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 50F5CF64874DE3FFD872DF391833919F25A82FE986F67B7CB64EC709D40B1E8F
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The term "Serial Killer" became fashionable in the 1970/80s when the term was first popularised by FBI Agent Robert K. Ressler. This graph is misleading, and clearly affected by a bias to labelling cases in the 1970s onwards as "Serial Killings", unlike in the decades prior. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/shadow-boxing/201410/who-coined-serial-killer
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